It’s late fall and all the seasonal illnesses are making their rounds: colds, flu, COVID, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and other respiratory viruses and infections. Unfortunately, modern medicine doesn’t have a preventative vaccine for everything that ails us, but it’s important ...
by Dr. Cory Franklin and Dr. Mary Hall Over thousands of years, viruses and humans have evolved together. The spread of viruses is a basic feature of nature, and it is an immutable fact that controlling nature is difficult, but not always impossible. In this respect, notable human ...
by Faye Flam Something is altering the normal seasonal currents of cold and flu viruses. They slowed to a trickle during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic only to blast through human populations this year. Some public health experts have called it a “tripledemic,” but it ...
WVU TODAY A steady increase in respiratory illnesses across the United States as winter approaches is leading health experts at West Virginia University and elsewhere to warn of a possible “tridemic,” widespread occurrences of influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus or ...
by Dr. Chris Martin We’ve entered an odd new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the one hand, life is much more normal in many ways. Indeed, President Biden has recently pronounced the pandemic to be over. But, with about 25,000 Americans hospitalized and more than 300 dying each ...
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR), Bureau for Public Health confirmed an influenza-associated pediatric death for the 2021-22 flu season. The last influenza-associated pediatric death was reported during the 2019-20 flu season. While adult ...