Monthly Archives: June 2021
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June 28, 2021Posted: June 28, 2021Read MoreSome patients have become infected with TB from contaminated graft material. How are they screened for infectious disease?
In June of this year, it was discovered over 100 patients may have been exposed to tuberculosis originating from cadaver-derived material used in their bone graft procedures.
Second only...
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June 16, 2021Posted: June 16, 2021Read MoreMedieval doctors didn’t always prescribe what was best for an ailing patient (leeches were a popular therapy). However, a medical manuscript from the 10th Century called Bald’s Leechbook recently found in the British Library details a concoction of wine, oxbile, and two species of Allium (garlic, onion, or leek) used to treat styes, now known as an infection caused by Staphylococcus aur...
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June 03, 2021Posted: June 03, 2021Read MoreAlthough of great concern, vaccination will help
When will the pandemic end? How many more COVID-19 waves will the U.S. go through? Will we go back to “normal” in the fall? All these questions depend largely on one factor: the epidemiology of the variants.
As the virus spreads around the world, variant strains hav...
