CNN — A mobile lab monitoring for air pollution at the site of the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, found one potential chemical of concern at higher…
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Herpes Can Be Devastating but Treatment and Testing Remain Scant
‘One of the biggest secret societies’ When Ella Dawson, 30, contracted genital HSV-1 in college, she started to post openly about her diagnosis on social media. To her surprise, people…
CDC figuring out ‘logistical and legal’ aspects of testing airplane wastewater for coronavirus variants, source says
CNN — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is ironing out the “logistical and legal” aspects of testing wastewater from airplanes for coronavirus variants as it continues to…
China Covid: U.S. Testing Rule Meets a Collective Shrug
Some Chinese were disappointed by the Biden administration’s new testing requirement for travelers coming from their country. Others radiated contempt, calling it the latest Western effort to contain China’s rise.…
A New Strategy for Preventing Fentanyl Overdoses: Testing Drugs
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The white powder, deposited in a small tube, arrived one morning by FedEx in a basement office on the campus of the University of North Carolina…
Testing is crucial to getting monkeypox under control, but there’s a ‘shocking’ lack of demand
Mayo Clinic Laboratories, for example, has the capacity to process 1,000 monkeypox samples a week but has received only 45 specimens from doctors since starting monkeypox testing July 11. Another…
US will end Covid-19 testing requirement for air travelers entering the country
The move, which CNN was first to report, will go into effect for US-bound air travelers at midnight on Sunday, the officials said. The CDC is lifting the restriction that…
Monkeypox: Plans underway to ramp up testing if outbreak grows quickly
Dozens of public health labs across the country now use a more generalized test for orthopoxvirus, a larger category that includes monkeypox, smallpox and other viruses. Two biotechnology companies, Roche…
Can I Stop Isolating If I’m Still Testing Positive for the Virus?
Tests also differ in their sensitivity, and people differ in how they perform them. “Some people do a swab test and it’s like they barely touch their nose,” Dr. Gordon…