In December 2020, the B.1.617.2 variant, also known as the COVID-19 Delta variant, was first documented in India (1). Originally referred to as the “India
Year: 2021
H10N3 in China On Tuesday, June 1, 2021, Beijing’s National Health Commission announced a confirmed case of the H10N3 avian influenza in a 41-year-old man.
Image courtesy of Alachua County via Public Domain One year after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a pandemic [1],
By Sarah Wade Image courtesy of CDC Global Health, licensed under CC BY 2.0 On top of the COVID-19 pandemic, West Africa is experiencing another,
In December 2020, the Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator department at Boston Children’s Hospital launched a new health study in collaboration with Google. The Respiratory
By: Sarah Wade Image courtesy of Anthony Marsiglia via Flickr The COVID-19 pandemic forced many universities to reassess their way of teaching students this past
By: Alexandra Rodrigues and Autumn Gertz Image courtesy of Quote Catalog via Flickr While life before COVID-19 may serve as many people’s standard of normalcy,
By: Jessica Wise and Autumn Gertz Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease similar to COVID-19: both respiratory illnesses are spread from person-to-person via droplet transmission