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Coronavirus levels are high and rising throughout California amid a post-holiday spike in infections. The uptick, documented through wastewater surveillance, is coinciding with a sharp rise in flu activity — a one-two punch for what’s proving to be a busy respiratory virus season. “We are certainly in some high levels of viral transmission. Flu is one of the bigger drivers of that right now,” state epidemiologist Dr. Erica Pan said in a recent briefing. “We are seeing some increases in COVID-19 activity, especially…

At least four people in Florida and one in Texas have been diagnosed with malaria that they must have caught near where they live—because, according to health officials, none of them traveled outside the US or their own states. The very unusual discovery has left infectious disease specialists wondering: Who else might be ill, and will local doctors recognize what’s wrong?Malaria isn’t completely unprecedented in the US: About 2,000 residents contract it every year, but almost always because they traveled to a place where…

A fraudulent scheme is currently circulating on the internet under the guise of the Indian government. Scammers are spreading false information to users, claiming that the government of India is providing…

Bacteria that are resistant to colistin, a last-resort antibiotic, have for the first time been detected in Los Angeles County wastewater, suggesting that the germs are circulating more widely in the community than previously thought, according to researchers at USC.The superbugs were discovered during surveillance of wastewater — a practice that took off during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to track the presence and transmission of infectious agents within a community. The pathogens appeared in samples of untreated…

Twitter and social media platform Discord have various policies that might have prompted them to remove the leaked Pentagon documents that Biden administration officials say revealed key information about U.S. intelligence gathering operations.But gray areas in those rules and uneven enforcement of them make it unclear how, or even if, executives at those companies would decide to remove them.As of Saturday, Twitter continued to host tweets with the Pentagon's documents, some of which had been up since at least Wednesday.…

As we gear up for New Years' celebrations, Covid might play spoilsports. World Health Organisation has…

The Nigerian Communications Commission has cautioned Nigerians on the risk of taking part in a new TikTok trend called Invisible Challenge, saying it could expose devices to malware. The challenge exposes devices to information-stealing malware, the NCC’s Computer Security Incident Response Team said in a statement signed by spokesperson Reuben Muoka. The advisory said threat actors were using the challenge to disseminate an information-stealing malware known as the WASP (or W4SP) stealer. The WASP stealer,…

A person receives a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test as the Omicron coronavirus variant continues to spread in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 22, 2021.Andrew Kelly | ReutersThe omicron BQ coronavirus subvariants have risen to dominance in the U.S. as people gather and travel for the Thanksgiving holiday, putting people with compromised immune systems at increased risk.BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 are causing 57% of new infections in the U.S., according to data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on…

Tuberculosis (TB) is usually found in the lungs, but there's an ancient lineage of TB that specializes in spreading to the bones and damaging them from the inside, researchers have discovered.Spinal destruction caused by TB has previously been identified in 9,000-year-old Egyptian mummies. Today, only around 2 percent of TB cases in the US involve skeletal TB, or Pott's Disease.However, something strange happened during a TB outbreak in the mid-2000s in North Carolina. At the epicenter of this outbreak was a person who…

Many cryptocurrency projects aim to have an unlimited token supply to make sure their currency finds its way to everyone, everywhere. However, this is not the case with Uniglo.io (GLO), whose developers want to keep its market capitalization low. They also integrate features into the Uniglo.io project that make the GLO token hyper-deflationary. As Uniglo.io maps out its post-launch milestones, its community intends to have the biggest burn ever, crushing the overall supply of GLO tokens in the market to push its price…