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Alberta’s mobile vaccination clinic will visit locations in Calgary and Edmonton Sept. 20-25 as post-secondary students return to class.

While droplet and bioaerosol transmission are considered the main contributors to COVID-19 transmission,1 SARS-CoV-2 detection on surfaces2 indicates the potential for fomite-mediated transmission and the need for surface disinfection in multibarrier

CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates that evidence of symptoms, even when major, is a poor predictor for SARS-CoV-2 positivity in health care workers and raises the question of the best way to efficiently screen this population especially during the

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been a pandemic for more than a year. With the expanding second wave of pandemic in winter, the continuous evolution of SARS-CoV-2 has brought new issues, including the significance of virus mutations in

Malaria is an infectious disease caused by Plasmodium parasites that are mainly transmitted through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. The average annual number of malaria cases was less than ten in Taiwan in the last five years. Most

While mRNA vaccines have been well-studied in vitro and in animals prior to their use in the human population during the Covid-19 pandemic, their exact mechanisms of inducing immunity are still being elucidated. The large-scale collection of data

From 1 January through 13 September 2020, a total of 4,594 suspected cases of monkeypox, including 171 deaths (case fatality ratio 3.7%), have been reported in 127 health zones from 17 out of 26 provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The

Starting October 25, monoclonal antibodies will be available to treat clinically appropriate patients who have contracted COVID-19, with the intent of preventing unvaccinated or severely...