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While fever, fatigue, and a dry cough are the most common symptoms of a COVID-19 infection, you may also end up with a wet mucus-producing cough if you catch SARS-CoV-2.  Dry coughs are a more common COVID-19 symptom, but about one-third of COVID patients cough up thick mucus and experience lung congestion. This may manifest as chest pressure or heaviness in the chest, a rattling sound or feeling when breathing, and globby mucus coming up when you're coughing. Your lungs and airways start to produce extra mucus to clear out infections when you catch a virus like SARS-CoV-2. A wet, productive cough is the body's way of trying to clear this extra mucus out of the airways. This article will provide a comprehensive overview of coughing up mucus with COVID. It will review what it means if you have a productive cough, as well as what medications, home remedies, and exercises you can use to clear lung congestion. Verywell / Katie Kerpel ...

Flu season is in full swing, which is quite confusing in the middle of a pandemic involving a deadly virus with nearly identical symptoms. The only way to tell if it's the flu or COVID-19, according to medical experts, is testing.  Symptoms of COVID-19 include fever and chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headaches, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea, and a loss of taste or smell. Symptoms can be mild to severe, and can appear two to 14 days after exposure. Not sure if you have allergies, a cold, the flu, COVID-19 or a breakthrough infection? Doctors across Michigan agree: Get tested, even if you've been fully vaccinated against the virus responsible for the global pandemic. You could be contagious. "There's no excuse. Go find out. It's as easy as getting a coffee," said Dr. Karen Kent VanGorder, chief medical and quality officer...

Show Caption Hide Caption Brace for an aggressive flu season after a COVID-focused year As an eager vaccine rollout journey's us to a COVID-cured world, experts warn an aggressive influenza season may be upon us. Buzz60, Buzz60 With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to rage in Oregon, flu season is also again looming — and national health experts are warning that 2021 could be a bad flu year. COVID-19 and the flu share similar symptoms, so it can be difficult to determine which infection you might have if you begin feeling ill. Both can present muscle aches, fatigue, sore throat, fever and shortness of breath.  However, there are a number of differences between the two contagious respiratory diseases. People with COVID-19 often experience a loss of taste or smell, which is rare in cases of the flu. Nausea, vomiting and diarrhea are also ...

By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Sept. 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Roughly a third of Americans on high blood pressure medications do not have their blood pressure under control, a new study reveals. And younger men and older women are particularly vulnerable, researchers warn. "Although this phenomenon has been hinted at in the medical literature, it is a bit surprising to me as we should not expect anyone to have uncontrolled blood pressure, especially if they are already taking prescription medications for them," said study author Dr. Aayush Visaria. He's a postdoctoral research fellow at Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research in New Brunswick, N.J. Among patients in their 70s, women were 29% more likely than men to have uncontrolled high blood pressure, Visaria and his colleagues found. And women 80 and up had a 63% higher risk. Among 20- to 49-year-olds, the reverse appears to be true. Compared to women, the risk for treated b...

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Sleep: We all need it on a daily basis, but, like eating habits and exercise, there are tremendously wide variations in our habits. And while most of us know that poor sleep is not good for our bodies or brains, many people have an easier time justifying their lack of sleep than they would eating a non-nutritious diet or refusing ever to move their body. In busy times, sleep is often the first thing to go, and high achievers may occasionally even view it as a badge of honor to pull an all-nighter when they are wrapped up in hard work. Moreover, the quality of our sleep seems to be suffering as of late, potentially because smartphone use before bed makes it harder for our bodies to get into the relaxation state they need in order to achieve restful sleep. Plus, more people are reporting sleep disturbances since the coronavirus pandemic began. The relationship between sleep and well-being is often a two-way street: Poor sleep makes us feel worse, and feeling worse affects our sleep q...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] 'A whole generation' to be affected by COVID loss of taste, smell: Vanderbilt researchers    WZTV

[unable to retrieve full-text content] The itch in the back of your throat: Is it COVID, or something else?    KELOLAND.com

AS the autumn approaches, there are a number of bugs circulating - not just the coronavirus. A high temperature can indicate the body is fighting infection, and in some cases, warrants medical attention. ⚠️ Read our   coronavirus live blog  for the latest news and updates The sympoms of coronavirus can be having a high temperature and a new, continuous cough Credit: Getty Images - Getty What is a high temperature for an adult and child? A high temperature - also called a fever - is typically considered to be 38C (100.4F) or over. According to the NHS, the standard body temperature in adults is 37C (98.6F). However this amount can fluctuate slightly depending on the person's age, the time of day and the current activity. It is generally accepted that 36.1C (97F) to 37.2C (99F) is a normal range for body temperature. But the NHS says if you feel hot or shivery, you may have a high temperature even if a thermometer says your temperature is below 38C (...

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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is most likely the deadliest outbreak in recent American history, exceeding the estimated deaths from the 1918 influenza pandemic. Caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the pandemic has now infected over 229 million individuals worldwide. Of these, more than 4.7 million people have perished from the virus. In the United States, more than 42.4 million people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2. The death toll in the country has now topped 676,000. Over the past 28 days, the U.S. has reported 4.25 million new infections and over 45,000 deaths. Transmission electron micrograph of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle (UK B.1.1.7 variant), isolated from a patient sample and cultivated in cell culture. The prominent projections (green) seen on the outside of the virus particle (yellow) are spike proteins. This fringe of proteins enables the virus to attach to and infect host cells and then replicate. Image ...

A. Situation Analysis Description of the disaster Nigeria is experiencing one of its worst cholera outbreaks in years. According to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Cholera Situation Report No. 38, as of 21st September 2021, a total of 73,055 suspected cases including 2,407 deaths (CFR 3.3%) have been reported from 27 states out of 36 states and in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). According to the NCDC, children between 5 and 14 are the most affected age group and the overall case fatality rate is 3.3%. So far, the affected states are Benue, Delta, Zamfara, Gombe, Bayelsa, Kogi, Sokoto, Bauchi, Ekiti, Osun, Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, Kebbi, Cross River, Nasarawa, Ogun, Niger, Jigawa, Yobe, Kwara, Adamawa, Enugu, Katsina, Borno, Taraba, Abia, and the FCT. With over 2,407 people dead from suspected cholera this year, there are concerns that there might be an undercount given that many affected communities are in hard-to-reach areas with high security challenges. ...

Experts in public health said recent reports of apparent mold on campus could have been the result of administrative oversight as buildings sat empty while classes were held virtually last year. Multiple students have reported symptoms similar to those of a cold and the flu, respiratory infections, continuous coughing and allergies, which experts said are typically associated with exposure to mold, which could have grown in residence halls that sat empty throughout the pandemic without adequate ventilation. Nearly 200 students were evacuated from Townhouse Row and relocated to local hotels earlier this month after officials detected what they later confirmed as suspected mold. Scott Burnotes, the vice president for safety and facilities, said in an interview about ongoing HVAC system updates prior to the evacuation that all campus buildings were "safe to occupy" and aligned with expert COVID-19 reopening guidelines. Guidelines outlined by the American Society of Heating, ...

Is there a possibility of a 'second' COVID-19 infection? Or are there flaws in the testing system? The story so far: Ever since cases of 'reinfection' — people who had tested negative for COVID-19 testing positive again after a while — emerged in early January, the question of latency of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is being hotly debated. The first such cases emerged in the east (China, South Korea) where scientists were puzzled over why or how individuals who had tested negative twice for the virus, had, after a few weeks or months, tested positive, the second time around albeit with milder symptoms. A latent infection is when the virus in the body is dormant and does not replicate within the host. It however possesses the capacity to be reactivated at some point, causing a flare-up of the disease much later. What is a latent viral infection? A latent viral infection is an infection that is inactive or dormant, authors Sergey Sheleg and Alexey Vasilevsky write in an ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Recent Ebola outbreak emerged from someone infected 5 years earlier    Ars Technica 2021 Ebola Outbreak Resulted From Viral Latency, Reactivation, Genomic Study Finds    GenomeWeb Ebola virus can lie low and reactivate after years in human survivors    Nature.com Ebola virus can lie dormant in survivors and trigger outbreaks even five years after infections: Study    Firstpost View Full Coverage on Google News

"Period flu" is not a medical term. However, it does describe a series of flu-like symptoms that some people experience shortly before their menstrual period. Once a month, in the days before a period, some people have physical and emotional symptoms that can make them feel as though they are coming down with the flu. Period flu includes many symptoms that doctors commonly group under the term premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Period flu remains poorly understood by healthcare professionals, and the precise underlying cause is unclear. In this article, we examine the possible causes of period flu. We also look at the symptoms and possible treatment options. Period flu is not influenza, commonly known as the flu. Instead, it is a term that people use to describe the symptoms that they experience just before their period. The symptoms of period flu are similar to those of the flu. They are also consistent with many of the symptoms of PMS. The symptoms of period flu include: One of t...