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TikTok famous emu Emmanuel is recovering from avian influenza, his caretaker Taylor Blake has revealed. In a series of tweets shared on Sunday, Blake said that her farm in Florida suffered an outbreak of avian influenza after Egyptian Geese kept flying in. “Our farm was heavily impacted by wild geese bringing in AI, and we lost […]
Despite major advancements in medical technology in the last 100 years, more people have now died from COVID-19 than died during the 1918 influenza pandemic. 1918’s influenza killed at least 50 million people around the world, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a number which they say is equivalent to 200 million […]
A man in China has tested positive for a rare variant of the bird flu called H10N3. NBC News reports that people can catch the virus from poultry, with cases popping up intermittently in those who work with the domesticated birds. The 41-year-old from the province of Jiangsu is the first person to catch the strain, according to China’s National […]
With COVID-19 continuing to spread across the country at alarming and new variants reportedly being detected, researchers have noticed that the common flu seems to have taken a backseat to the pandemic. “This is the lowest flu season we’ve had on record,” Lynnette Brammer of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said of the disappearance of […]
Amid his publicity stunt-laden COVID-19 experience, Donald Trump—the constant coverage of whom surely benefits no one—is once again pushing false narratives about the virus that’s taken the lives of more than 209,000 Americans. In messages shared to his Twitter and Facebook pages on Tuesday, the frequent pandemic downplayer recklessly compared the coronavirus to the seasonal flu. “Many […]
According to a new study published on Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a strain of flu that’s been found in pigs in China could have the ability to leap to humans and cause another pandemic. As such, researchers behind that study say the situation has to be closely monitored. […]
On Monday, the CDC released a study that, among other things, showed the coronavirus RNA aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship survived for 17 days after passengers were finally allowed to get off that damn thing. So, I guess just don’t touch anything for the foreseeable future. The study examined two ships, one that was docked […]
As the weeks go by, it’s become clear that no one is safe from the global coronavirus pandemic. With over 182,000 cases worldwide, everyone from athletes to celebrities have discovered that they tested positive for COVID-19. While it can feel like those in Hollywood would never fall prey to this virus for whatever reason, recent revelations […]
A new study claims that COVID-19, popularly known as coronavirus, can be transmitted from a further distance than previously thought, and last longer on certain surfaces than originally suspected. In a paper for the Practical Preventive Medicine journal obtained by the South China Morning Post, epidemiologists for China’s government concluded that someone can still become infected with coronavirus, even if they stick to […]
Paramount confirmed Monday that an upcoming three-week shoot in Venice for Mission: Impossible 7 has been put on hold in conjunction with the Venetian government imposing a halt to public gatherings following a staggering spike in confirmed cases of coronavirus in Italy over the last three days. On Friday morning, there were only three confirmed cases […]
