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The COVID-19 virus has not been detected in drinking water. [82] Conventional water treatment (filtration and disinfection) inactivates or removes the virus. [82] COVID-19 virus RNA is found in untreated wastewater, [82] [22] [83] [a] but there is no evidence of COVID-19 transmission through exposure to untreated wastewater or sewerage systems ...
Rickettsia typhi is a small, aerobic, obligate intracellular, rod shaped, gram negative bacterium. [1] R. typhi is a zoonotic bacterium that is recognized as a biocontainment level 2/3 organism (dependent upon the tissue being worked with).
Vi-rEPA vaccine, a new conjugate form of the injectable Vi vaccine, may be more effective and prevents the disease in many children under the age of five years. [9] In a trial in 2-to-5-year-old children in Vietnam, the vaccine had more than 90 percent efficacy in the first year and protection lasted at least four years. [10]
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The conventional wisdom is that Omicron is less likely to cause serious illness, but that might have more to do with better immunity and treatments, not the virus itself.
[16] Phylogenetic tree of SARS-CoV-2 and closely related betacoronaviruses (left) and their geographic context (right) Bats, along with their viruses, have large overlapping geographic ranges in Southeast Asia, [ 17 ] and there is a particularly great concentration and diversity of bat-related coronaviruses in Southern and Southwest China. [ 15 ]
Children as young as 6 months old are now eligible to get the updated Omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine. What parents need to know about Omicron-specific COVID boosters for children 6 months and older
An infectious disease agent can be transmitted in two ways: as horizontal disease agent transmission from one individual to another in the same generation (peers in the same age group) [3] by either direct contact (licking, touching, biting), or indirect contact through air – cough or sneeze (vectors or fomites that allow the transmission of the agent causing the disease without physical ...