Rapid Covid home tests are more likely to give a false negative with the heavily-mutated Omicron variant compared to earlier strains, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Tuesday.
Dec 29, 2021
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South African scientists identified a new version of the coronavirus that they say is behind a recent spike in COVID-19 infections in Gauteng, the country's most populous province.
Nov 29, 2021
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WHAT IS THIS NEW COVID-19 VARIANT?
Nov 26, 2021
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A previously unknown virus that can infect humans and cause disease has been identified by scientists in Japan. The novel infectious virus, named Yezo virus, is transmitted by tick bites and causes a disease characterized ...
Oct 4, 2021
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How well do vaccines protect against the new variants of the coronavirus? This is a question we—a group of scientists and doctors in Nottingham—set about answering earlier this year, having collected blood samples from ...
Aug 27, 2021
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In Finland, a disease known as nephropathia epidemica, a mild form of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is caused by the Puumala virus (PUUV), which is a member of the family Hantaviridae. In addition to Finland, ...
Aug 26, 2021
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T cells play an important role in the human immune system. The blood cells classified as lymphocytes are formed in the bone marrow. From there they travel through blood vessels to the thymus gland in the breastbone. They ...
Aug 19, 2021
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The Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), a joint center of the University of Valencia and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has developed a procedure that increases the sensitivity to detect viruses ...
Aug 9, 2021
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In Brazil, researchers at the University of São Paulo's Medical School (FM-USP) have discovered that SARS-CoV-2 infects and replicates in the salivary glands.
Jul 7, 2021
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Army scientists working as part of an international consortium have developed and tested an antibody-based therapy to treat Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV), which is carried by ticks and kills up to 60 percent ...
Jun 2, 2021
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