infectious diseases
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What Is ‘Period Flu’ and How Can You Deal With It?
If you get periods, you know about pre-menstrual syndrome. PMS, as it’s usually known, is the collection of physical and emotional annoyances that can occur shortly before your period is due. But for some people, that time of the month can include symptoms that feel like an actual illness.
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You’re Not Replacing Your Loofah Often Enough (and How to Clean One)
Anyone who’s bathed with a loofah knows: Its lathering skills are legendary. No other soap carrier can hold a sud to the loofah’s ability to generate copious, instantaneous foam at the slightest brush across your skin. And the volume! A wash cloth could never.
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How Contagious Is Delta, Really?
Delta is more contagious than the original COVID-19 virus, and it’s even more contagious than the other variants of concern. That’s why the CDC in the US has recently recommended masking up in some situations even if you’re vaccinated — as many public health experts have been urging ever since Delta started spreading.
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If Everyone Isn’t Masking Up at Your Gym, Stay Home
Many gyms allow people to take off their masks during workouts, as if the coronavirus will politely refrain from infecting others during exercise. It won’t, of course. Even if it’s legal to exercise maskless where you are, that doesn’t make it a good idea.