Print article Arianna Eisenberg endured long-haul COVID-19 for eight months, a recurring nightmare of soaking sweats, crushing fatigue, insomnia, brain fog and muscle pain. But Eisenberg’s tale has a happy ending that neither she nor current medical science can explain. Thirty-six hours after her second shot of coronavirus vaccine last month, her symptoms were gone, and they haven’t returned. “I really felt back to myself,” the 34-year-old Brooklyn therapist said, “to a way that I didn’t think was possible when I was really sick.” Some people who have spent months suffering from long-haul COVID-19 are taking to social media to report their delight at seeing their symptoms disappear after their vaccinations, leaving experts chasing yet another puzzling clinical development surrounding the disease caused by the coronavirus.
March 17, 2021
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Florida woman, who received her first Covid-19 vaccine dose during pregnancy, gave birth to the first known baby born with coronavirus antibodies, according to a report by two pediatricians.
The report, published in the pre-print server medrxiv, was carried out by doctors Paul Gilbert and Chad Rudnick.
They said in the report that the mother, who was a frontline worker, was administered the first dose of the Moderna vaccine in January when she was 36 weeks pregnant.
“The woman gave birth to a vigorous, healthy girl three weeks later. Antibodies were detected in the baby’s umbilical cord at the time of delivery.
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Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO), a genomic medicine company, today announced that the European Medicines Agency s Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP) released details supporting the Orphan Designation of BIVV003, an investigational
ex vivo gene-edited cell therapy product candidate currently being evaluated for the treatment of sickle cell disease in the Phase 1/2 PRECIZN-1 study partnered with Sanofi. The Committee s decision to grant Orphan Designation was based in part on early data from three patients that had 52 weeks, 13 weeks, and 29 days of follow-up, respectively.
In recently published minutes, the Committee considered the preliminary clinical observations of BIVV003 as well as the potential of long-term effects that may obviate the need for frequent treatment suggested a clinically relevant advantage. The Committee s published minutes report information on select patient characteristics for the first three patients treated, including genotype a
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Animals can bring tremendous joy to our lives, but they can also make us sick. Every year, tens of thousands of people fall ill to diseases transmitted through animal contact. These conditions are known as zoonotic diseases, or zoonoses. Here are some of the most common.
Salmonellosis
This very common bacterial infection can be transmitted through direct contact with animals such as dogs, rodents, and reptiles as well as through consumption of infected food. Symptoms include diarrhea, fever, headache, and spleen enlargement.
Leptospirosis
Contact with the urine of infected dogs, mice, or rats, or with urine-contaminated materials, can quickly spread this debilitating disease. Symptoms, which present in two phases, include headache, muscle ache, stiff neck, eye pain when viewing bright light, and inflammation of nerves of the eyes, brain, and spinal column.
Bahrain prince brings AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine to Nepal without permission
March 17, 2021
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Prince Mohamed Hamad Mohamed al-Khalifa landed in Nepal on Monday with over 2,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.
Nepali drug regulators are probing a case of Bahraini prince who brought AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine shots into the country without any permission, BBC reported.
The report revealed that prince Mohamed Hamad Mohamed al-Khalifa landed in Nepal on Monday with over 2,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.
After the investigation began, the Bahraini embassy told Nepal-based media that the prince intended to donate the vaccine to villagers in the Gorkha district.
On Tuesday Thaneshwor Guragain, a spokesperson for Seven Summits Trek, the company that dealt with Prince al-Khalifa and his trip to Nepal, told the Himalayan Times that the prince would finish a week-long quarantine before moving to the Chumnurbi Rural Municipality, in Gorkha district.