By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-08 15:27:46 | Updated at 2025-01-09 07:01:21
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Sniffling, sneezing, coughing: What infectious disease do you have?
Channel 3000 News/CNN ^ | January 8, 2025 | CNN Bitter LOSERS
Posted on 01/08/2025 7:24:26 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Welcome to winter virus season.
Cases of acute respiratory illness, Covid-19 and seasonal flu are increasing in most parts of the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Emergency department visits for flu and the respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, are very high. While Covid-19 cases leading to emergency department visits are still low, they are increasing, with wastewater testing already revealing high coronavirus levels.
How can you know which infectious disease you have? Does it depend on the illness, the symptoms or the characteristics of the person who is ill? And how can people find out what to do — should they go to their primary care provider, urgent care or the hospital’s emergency department?
Against this backdrop, norovirus cases causing gastrointestinal upset also have been surging. Several other infectious illnesses are making the rounds, too, including the viruses that cause the common cold and bacteria that lead to strep throat.
To help us with these questions, I spoke with CNN wellness expert Dr. Leana Wen. Wen is an emergency physician and clinical associate professor at the George Washington University. She previously served as Baltimore’s health commissioner.
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Let’s begin with respiratory illnesses. Most healthy people who have mild symptoms like runny nose, congestion and fatigue do not need to seek medical care. More than 200 viruses cause the common cold, which is more than likely the cause of these symptoms.
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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: cold; cough; death; fever
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CNN: What are some preventive measures that people can take to reduce their risk of catching and transmitting infectious diseases?
Wen: It’s not easy to avoid infections during winter virus season, but people can take steps. Everyone should wash their hands regularly with soap and water, and, if soap and water are not available, use hand sanitizer. People who are especially vulnerable to severe illness should consider limiting their interactions with others. They should consider wearing a high-quality mask in indoor, crowded settings, and they should ask family members and friends who have symptoms to stay away until symptoms resolve.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
“They should consider wearing a high-quality mask in indoor, crowded settings”
Wasn’t Dr. Wen one of those coronavirus Nazis?
2 posted on 01/08/2025 7:26:53 AM PST by packagingguy
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