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Bodywork: Understanding infection after a bug bite

May 30, 2023

How would an insect bite cause a staph infection? Do bugs carry staph that can infect humans?

Filed Under: Bodywork Tagged With: bacteria, infections, James, Judith, mosquitoes, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, scientist-news, Staph

Can insects add to the spread of COVID-19?

May 14, 2020

Could coronavirus be on that list of viruses spread by insects?

Filed Under: COVID-19 News, Videos Tagged With: coronavirus, covid-19, covid19, fox 25, insects, kokh, mosquitoes, okcfox, Prescott, spread, stephen, steve

Can insects transmit coronavirus?

May 12, 2020

Covid-19 and other coronaviruses like SARS and MERS are spread from person to person through tiny viral droplets, not through blood.

Filed Under: COVID-19 News, News Tagged With: bite, blood, bugs, Chakravarty, coronavirus, covid19, Eliza, insect, mosquito, mosquitoes, mosquitos, news, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, oklahoman, OMRF, Pandemic, Prescott, scientist-news, stephen, ticks, virus

The “mad” scientist: fact or fiction?

October 26, 2017

Like many fictional characters, the mad scientist figure has its basis in real life.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: bacteria, barry marshall, experimentation, fictional, gut, h. pylori, Hal Scofield, halloween, heart, history, holiday, horror, human, mad scientist, medical, mosquitoes, nobel prize, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, real, robert, scientist-news, Scofield, study, surgery, test, trope, virus, walter reed, werner forssmann, x-ray, yellow fever

Vampires: Sink your teeth into the origins of this Halloween legend

October 26, 2016

Is there a medical basis to the vampire myth?

Filed Under: News Tagged With: bat, blood, Contagion, creepy, diagnose, diseases, dracula, eastern, europe, fangs, halloween, legends, lore, manifestation, medicine, mosquitoes, necks, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, porphyria, science, sephen prescott, sucker, teeth, truth, vampire, vampires

Going viral: Why are fast-spreading viruses becoming so common?

September 27, 2016

While mechanisms of viruses are complex, the reasons behind their spread aren’t.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2016, bird flu, brazil, bubonic, constant, DEET, disease, Ebola, ecosystem, epidemic, flu, history, influenza, international, medicine, mosquitoes, new, news, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, Pandemic, plague, planes, populations, rats, research, rodents, sars, shipping, spread, stephen prescott, steve prescott, Swine Flu, travel, vectors, venice, virus, viruses, warming, West Nile, year, yellow fever, zika

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