Advances in gene sequencing have allowed scientists to trace and monitor the COVID-19 pandemic faster than any previous outbreak. However, gaps in our knowledge of how coronaviruses work has made it difficult to understand ...
Mar 23, 2020
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The number of people killed in France by the coronavirus outbreak has increased by another 112 to a total of 674, the top French health official said on Sunday.
Mar 22, 2020
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Cuba and Bolivia announced on Friday they were closing their borders while Brazil drastically slashed its growth projections for 2020 over the coronavirus pandemic.
Mar 21, 2020
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A team of researchers from the U.K., Switzerland, the U.S., and the Congo has found that there is an urgent need to combat a vaccine-derived poliovirus. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes ...
The coronavirus epidemic has killed 108 more people in France over the last 24 hours, bringing the total death toll from the outbreak in the country to 372, the top French health official said Thursday.
Mar 19, 2020
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One vomiting episode from someone infected with norovirus emits billions and billions of individual viruses. That's enough to fuel an outbreak—and is exactly what happened in an elementary school in Seattle, Washington ...
Mar 18, 2020
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Brazil confirmed its first COVID-19 death Tuesday, as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro declared a state of emergency over the virus outbreak—though President Jair Bolsonaro condemned what he called "hysteria" over the escalating ...
Mar 17, 2020
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"That escalated quickly!" is a common trope used in popular culture to describe when a situation gets out of hand before you've even had a chance to think about it. We don't often use this trope in medicine, but I can think ...
Mar 16, 2020
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Saudi Arabia said Saturday that it would halt all international flights to the kingdom for two weeks in the latest effort to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.
Mar 14, 2020
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(HealthDay)—As coronavirus continues to spread, pregnant women may be especially anxious.
Mar 13, 2020
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