La muerte de una persona en Francia infectada por el virus shamonda (SHAV) ha puesto en alerta a los organismos europeos de salud pública. “Estamos vigilando de cerca la situación después de que las autoridades francesas hayan anunciado el primer caso registrado de infección humana por el virus shamonda, una enfermedad que hasta ahora solo había afectado a animales”, ha publicado en un comunicado el Centro Europeo para el Control de Enfermedades (ECDC).

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The so-called “delayed prescribing” is an evidence-based strategy that remains underused despite concerns over the misuse of antibiotics and the rise of superbugs, which are responsible for an estimated 1.2 million deaths worldwide each year. Under this approach, a doctor prescribes treatment for a patient with a respiratory infection but advises them to monitor their symptoms and wait up to 72 hours before collecting the medication from the pharmacy and starting the course.

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A comprehensive atlas of the 18 main respiratory viruses circulating in Catalonia, produced for the first time in Spain by researchers from that northeastern region, reveals that the coronavirus that caused the Covid-16 pandemic — SARS-CoV-2 — “is currently not a winter virus. In recent years, it has shown clear peaks during the spring and summer, which is different from what was initially expected.”

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