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Coronavirus: 383 new cases, 19 deaths reported in Manitoba Sunday

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WINNIPEG —
Following Manitoba’s deadliest day, health officials are reporting another 14 COVID-19 deaths and 383 new cases of the disease.

The youngest death announced Sunday is a man in his 20s from the Winnipeg health region. He is the second person in their 20s to die of COVID-19 this weekend.

One death, a man in his 70s, is linked to an outbreak at the Health Sciences Centre.

Five deaths are linked to Winnipeg senior-care facilities. A man in his 60s linked to an outbreak at the Charleswood Care Centre, two women in their 80s linked to an outbreak at Park Manor Care Home, a woman in her 90s linked to an outbreak at Holy Family Personal Care Home and a woman in her 90s linked to an outbreak at St. Norbert Personal Care Home all died of COVID-19.

A woman in her 60s, a woman in her 70s and a man in his 80s, all from Winnipeg, also died from the virus.

In the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region, a man in his 70s and a woman in her 80s linked to an outbreak at Woodhaven Manor died.

The province also reported one death in the Interlake-Eastern health region, a man in his 70s linked to an outbreak at Kin Place Personal Care Home.

A man in his 90s from the Prairie Mountain heath region linked to an outbreak at the Gilbert Plains Personal Care Home also died from the disease.

The number of deaths in the province related to COVID-19 has risen to 394.

Along with the 14 deaths, 383 cases of the virus were announced.

Of the new cases, 272 are in Winnipeg, which has a five-day test positivity rate of 14.4 per cent.

Out of the rest of the cases, 22 are in the Interlake-Eastern health region, 36 are in the Northern health region, 17 are in the Prairie Mountain health region and 36 are in the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region.

The total number of cases in Manitoba since early March is 18,806.

The province currently has 9,216 active cases, and 9,195 people have recovered from the disease.

The current provincial five-day test positivity rate now sits at 13.6 per cent, half a per cent higher than a day previous.

There are 348 people in hospital with COVID-19, down slightly from Friday, with 43 patients in intensive care, down eight from Saturday.

On Saturday, 2,231 tests were performed, bringing the total to 371,453 since early February.

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Whooping cough is at a decade-high level in US

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year, U.S. health officials reported Thursday.

There have been 18,506 cases of whooping cough reported so far, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. That’s the most at this point in the year since 2014, when cases topped 21,800.

The increase is not unexpected — whooping cough peaks every three to five years, health experts said. And the numbers indicate a return to levels before the coronavirus pandemic, when whooping cough and other contagious illnesses plummeted.

Still, the tally has some state health officials concerned, including those in Wisconsin, where there have been about 1,000 cases so far this year, compared to a total of 51 last year.

Nationwide, CDC has reported that kindergarten vaccination rates dipped last year and vaccine exemptions are at an all-time high. Thursday, it released state figures, showing that about 86% of kindergartners in Wisconsin got the whooping cough vaccine, compared to more than 92% nationally.

Whooping cough, also called pertussis, usually starts out like a cold, with a runny nose and other common symptoms, before turning into a prolonged cough. It is treated with antibiotics. Whooping cough used to be very common until a vaccine was introduced in the 1950s, which is now part of routine childhood vaccinations. It is in a shot along with tetanus and diphtheria vaccines. The combo shot is recommended for adults every 10 years.

“They used to call it the 100-day cough because it literally lasts for 100 days,” said Joyce Knestrick, a family nurse practitioner in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Whooping cough is usually seen mostly in infants and young children, who can develop serious complications. That’s why the vaccine is recommended during pregnancy, to pass along protection to the newborn, and for those who spend a lot of time with infants.

But public health workers say outbreaks this year are hitting older kids and teens. In Pennsylvania, most outbreaks have been in middle school, high school and college settings, an official said. Nearly all the cases in Douglas County, Nebraska, are schoolkids and teens, said Justin Frederick, deputy director of the health department.

That includes his own teenage daughter.

“It’s a horrible disease. She still wakes up — after being treated with her antibiotics — in a panic because she’s coughing so much she can’t breathe,” he said.

It’s important to get tested and treated with antibiotics early, said Dr. Kris Bryant, who specializes in pediatric infectious diseases at Norton Children’s in Louisville, Kentucky. People exposed to the bacteria can also take antibiotics to stop the spread.

“Pertussis is worth preventing,” Bryant said. “The good news is that we have safe and effective vaccines.”

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AP data journalist Kasturi Pananjady contributed to this report.

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Scientists show how sperm and egg come together like a key in a lock

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How a sperm and egg fuse together has long been a mystery.

New research by scientists in Austria provides tantalizing clues, showing fertilization works like a lock and key across the animal kingdom, from fish to people.

“We discovered this mechanism that’s really fundamental across all vertebrates as far as we can tell,” said co-author Andrea Pauli at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.

The team found that three proteins on the sperm join to form a sort of key that unlocks the egg, allowing the sperm to attach. Their findings, drawn from studies in zebrafish, mice, and human cells, show how this process has persisted over millions of years of evolution. Results were published Thursday in the journal Cell.

Scientists had previously known about two proteins, one on the surface of the sperm and another on the egg’s membrane. Working with international collaborators, Pauli’s lab used Google DeepMind’s artificial intelligence tool AlphaFold — whose developers were awarded a Nobel Prize earlier this month — to help them identify a new protein that allows the first molecular connection between sperm and egg. They also demonstrated how it functions in living things.

It wasn’t previously known how the proteins “worked together as a team in order to allow sperm and egg to recognize each other,” Pauli said.

Scientists still don’t know how the sperm actually gets inside the egg after it attaches and hope to delve into that next.

Eventually, Pauli said, such work could help other scientists understand infertility better or develop new birth control methods.

The work provides targets for the development of male contraceptives in particular, said David Greenstein, a genetics and cell biology expert at the University of Minnesota who was not involved in the study.

The latest study “also underscores the importance of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry,” he said in an email.

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