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The World Health Organization said on Monday it was thrashing out a new list of priority pathogens that risk sparking pandemics or outbreaks and should be kept under close observation.The WHO said the aim was to update a list used to guide global research and development (R&D) and investment, especially in vaccines, tests, and treatments.As part of that process, which started on Friday, the United Nations' health agency is convening over 300 scientists to consider evidence on more than 25 virus families and…

Hurricane Ian is now the deadliest hurricane in the continental United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It made landfall on September 28 along Florida’s gulf coast at Category 4 strength, with sustained winds of 155 mph driving a storm surge as high as 18 feet, flinging boats and sweeping homes off foundations. As of Friday morning, officials report that at least 101 people are dead from the storm, 89 of them in Florida — 45 in Lee County, which includes Fort Myers and Cape Coral. More than 60 percent of the…

Of all the COVID variants, Delta is the deadliest one, a new study has revealed. Five different coronavirus variants were studied for the research that include Alpha, Delta, and three others that emerged before Alpha. The scientists tried to…

Vitamin D is a class of fat-soluble secosteroids that enhances intestinal absorption of calcium, magnesium, and phosphate, among other things.Vitamin D can effectively block a key pathway used by ovarian cancerAmong all cancers, ovarian cancer has one of the highest mortality rates. This is due, in part, to the cancer’s ability to turn the body’s defenses against it. However, recent research from Nagoya University, which was published in the journal Matrix Biology, indicates that vitamin D may be able to successfully…

Last year, fan-favorite writer Erica Schultz along with artist Carola Borelli and colorist Gab Contreras successfully funded a Kickstarter for The Deadliest Bouquet, a 120 page full-color original graphic novel. If you didn’t get on board the crowdfunding campaign, don’t fret, for the book is making the leap to floppies as a five-issue miniseries from Image Comics in August. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85CbI8ruAs8 Here’s how the publisher describes the miniseries: In The Deadliest Bouquet, Jasmine Hawthorn—a…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Storm surge, the massive mound of water that builds up and comes ashore during a hurricane, is often the deadliest and most destructive threat from these devastating storms. …