Animals carry all sorts of bacteria and viruses, even the nice, domesticated ones like dogs and cows. That's why we pasteurize animal products such as milk and cheese and encourage people to avoid raw food.
Disease
Coverage of infectious and chronic diseases — their causes, mechanisms, epidemiology, prevention strategies, and the latest science on how the body fights back.
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News about the coronavirus is coming at us like a fire hose. Both the scientific literature and the popular media are basically all COVID all the time. Here are some recent interesting developments.
Let's start with the people attending the annual motorcycle event because, from a health point of view, it is easy: no significant social distancing or use of masks. So, shame on them. They have rights, but they also have responsibilities.
The historians looked back at many of our prior pandemics; you know the litany, the Black Death, numerous episodes of cholera, and the Spanish Flu.
I’ve wondered about that last question for some time. Hypertension is a recognized COVID-19 co-morbidity, but a large portion of the population has hypertension; it didn’t seem to be a significant discriminator between little and lots of risk.
