Infection Unit News Today

Maternal-fetal listeriosis is a severe disease that can lead to miscarriage, premature birth or serious neonatal infection.

Some "hypervirulent" strains of Listeria monocytogenes have a greater capacity to infect the central nervous system.

 E-Mail Loss of smell, or anosmia, is one of the earliest and most commonly reported symptoms of COVID-19. But the mechanisms involved had yet to be clarified. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, Inserm, Université de Paris and the Paris Public Hospital Network (AP-HP) determined the mechanisms involved in the loss of smell in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 at different stages of the disease. They discovered that SARS-CoV-2 infects sensory neurons and causes persistent epitheli...

79,094 lab-confirmed infections as of Saturday 3.4 (up by 422 since Friday) 846 deaths attributed to coronavirus as of Thursday 1.4 (up by 2 since Wednesday) 264 people in hospital, 52 of them in intensive care as of Thursday 1.4 971,827 people (17.5% of the population) had received at least one vaccination dose as of Saturday 3.4 THL reports on Covid-related fatalities and hospital patient statistics on weekdays 3.4 16:51 Speaker condemns MPs "threatening" mask mandate tweet Speaker of Parliam...