Infectious diseases

Lynnette Hoffman
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Three-quarters of GPs have patients with long COVID, according to a new Healthed survey with more than 1000 participants.

Ben Falkenmire
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As we approach winter with no mandatory masks or isolation laws, and COVID-19, the flu and RSV all looming—what can we do to minimise widespread infection and protect high-risk patients?

Expert/s: Ben Falkenmire
Prof Paul Hunter
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Scientists have recently revived several large viruses that had been buried in the frozen Siberian ground (permafrost) for tens of thousands of years.

Prof Raina MacIntyre
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The question of whether and to what extent face masks work to prevent respiratory infections such as COVID and influenza has split the scientific community for decades.

Prof Robert Booy
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COVID – 5th dose, flu – concurrent annual booster, many recrudescent diseases

Clarice Tang
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Treating people for long COVID – that is, symptoms that last longer than four weeks after COVID infection – can be extremely complex due to the wide variety of problems associated with the condition.

Prof Robert Booy
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A massive surge in Omicron infections in China likely means new subvariants—and potentially worse.

Dr Deb Mills
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With many Australians taking advantage of open borders this summer holiday, Dr Deb Mills, Travel Medicine Expert, helps unpack some information on travel vaccinations, and also provides an update on rabies, and the precautions vacationers should take to minimise their risk

Expert/s: Dr Deb Mills
Dr Manal Mohammed
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Since the COVID variant omicron emerged in late 2021, it has rapidly evolved into multiple subvariants. One subvariant, BF.7, has recently been identified as the main variant spreading in Beijing, and is contributing to a wider surge of COVID infections in China.

Healthed
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There are many reasons why your RAT may not give you the results you expect. But one factor is whether RATs can detect the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID).

Expert/s: Healthed
Healthed
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At the end of the third year of the pandemic, we are no longer surprised to hear we’re in a new wave of infection. It’s fuelled by new sub-variants of the virus that may evade immunity from both vaccination and previous infections.

Expert/s: Healthed
Francois Balloux
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China is the only major country which, until now, has continued to enforce a zero-COVID strategy. Other countries, including Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, also sought to eliminate COVID entirely earlier in the pandemic.