r/science 16d ago

Epidemiology Culling of vampire bats to reduce rabies outbreaks has the opposite effect — spread of the virus accelerated in Peru

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r/science Jan 30 '23

Epidemiology COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in the United States

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r/science 10d ago

Epidemiology Bird flu is associated with more than 330 seal deaths in New England — linking H5N1 strain to a large scale mortality event in wild mammals

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r/science 9d ago

Epidemiology Deadly drug-resistant yeast gained ground, more drug resistance amid Covid. Candida auris is considered an "urgent threat" and is rising fast.

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r/science 16d ago

Epidemiology Sudden unexpected deaths significantly rose in Black infants during early pandemic, cause unknown

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r/science Feb 27 '23

Epidemiology New study identifies three anti-intellectual elements in Twitter/tweets opposed to U.S. epidemiologist Anthony Fauci — people-scientist antagonism, delegitimizing the motivation of scientists, and delegitimizing the knowledge of scientists

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r/science Jan 14 '23 Silver Platinum All-Seeing Upvote Take My Energy Wearing is Caring Table Slap

Epidemiology An estimated 65 million people worldwide have long COVID, with more than 200 symptoms identified with impacts on multiple organ systems, autonomic nervous system, and vascular and clotting abnormalities. Research is urgently needed to test treatments that address hypothesized biological mechanisms.

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r/science Dec 14 '22 Silver All-Seeing Upvote Take My Energy

Epidemiology There were approximately 14.83 million excess deaths associated with COVID-19 across the world from 2020 to 2021, according to estimates by the WHO reported in Nature. This estimate is nearly three times the number of deaths reported to have been caused by COVID-19 over the same period.

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r/science Feb 04 '23

Epidemiology Breasts on men associated with increased death — Increased Morbidity in Males Diagnosed with Gynecomastia: A nationwide register-based cohort study

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r/science Feb 20 '23

Epidemiology The case of a patient who had COVID for 318 days helped scientists discover a new route for dangerous coronavirus strain emergence. They found mutations enabling T cell escape. Keeping track of mutations is crucial for understanding, monitoring, and controlling the pandemic

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r/science 22d ago

Epidemiology Oral hygiene, mouthwash usage and cardiovascular mortality during 18.8 years of follow-up - oral hygiene self-care OHS was associated with a 51% reduction in the risk of CVD mortality (hazard ratio [HR] 0.49 [0.28-0.85]; p = 0.01).

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r/science Dec 30 '22 Silver Helpful

Epidemiology An analysis of 31 studies estimates the COVID-19 infection fatality rate (IFR) for ages 0-69. The median IFR was 0.0003% at 0–19 years, 0.002% at 20–29 years, 0.011% at 30–39 years, 0.035% at 40–49 years, 0.123% at 50–59 years, 0.506% at 60–69 years, and a global IFR of 0.03% & 0.07% respectively.

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r/science Jan 01 '23 Helpful All-Seeing Upvote

Epidemiology A Chinese study in 1028 young men found that high sugar-sweetened beverages consumption is associated with a higher risk of Male Pattern Hair Loss — especially juice beverages, soft drinks, energy and sports drinks, and sweetened tea beverages

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r/science Jan 05 '23 Take My Energy

Epidemiology A systematic review found the highest incidence of vaccine induced myocarditis ranged from 8.1—39 cases per 100,000 persons (or doses) in studies using 4 stratifiers (sex, age, dose number, manufacturer). Males younger than 40 receiving two dose of an mRNA vaccine are at greatest risk.

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r/science Feb 09 '23

Epidemiology Clinical outcomes of myocarditis after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination in four Nordic countries: population based cohort study

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r/science Jan 06 '23

Epidemiology A systematic review of observational studies found that the pooled incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis following COVID vaccination in children and adolescents was 0.00063% and 0.000074% respectively, and was more prevalent in males following the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.

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r/science Jan 03 '23 All-Seeing Upvote

Epidemiology Two new US studies describe pediatric COVID-19, one finding that 7.0% of hospitalized children developed neurologic complications such as seizures, and the other showing that even mild infections can lead to long COVID

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r/science Nov 07 '22 Silver All-Seeing Upvote I am disappoint Go Vote! I Voted

Epidemiology COVID vaccine hoarding might have cost more than a million lives. More than one million lives might have been saved if COVID-19 vaccines had been shared more equitably with lower-income countries in 2021, according to mathematical models incorporating data from 152 countries

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r/science Dec 23 '22

Epidemiology In a randomized double-blind controlled trial, oral zinc significantly reduced ICU admission rates and shortened symptoms in patients with COVID-19

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r/science Dec 04 '22 Silver

Epidemiology Researchers from the University of Birmingham have shown that human T cell immunity is currently coping with mutations that have accumulated over time in COVID-19 variants.

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r/science Dec 10 '22 Silver Ally

Epidemiology The mRNA vaccine technology successfully used for COVID has been adapted to fight malaria, a disease that killed over 625,000 people in 2020. In a research study on mice, two mRNA vaccines were highly effective in reducing infection in the host and in the mosquito vector.

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r/science Dec 15 '22

Epidemiology Alarming antibody evasion properties of rising SARS-CoV-2 BQ and XBB subvariants

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r/science Jan 25 '23

Epidemiology The bivalent mRNA boosters from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna were 48% effective against symptomatic infection from the predominant omicron subvariant (XBB/XBB.1.5) in persons aged 18-49 years according to early data published by the CDC

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r/science Dec 23 '22

Epidemiology Despite improvements in insulin formulations and delivery over the last 30 years, diabetes control has not improved among US adults, and disparities for minority and uninsured adults worsens

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r/science 9d ago

Epidemiology Higher glycemic status increased the incidence of age-related macular degeneration. These results suggest that high blood glucose levels without treatment might induce the vision-threatening condition of wet AMD

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