Studies of wastewater have turned up one of the weirdest observations yet about COVID. Most of the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 is happening within a small fraction of infected people who, for some reason, don’t clear the virus for months on end. These persistent infections could be a clue to the way new variants emerge, what causes […]
As Pakistan battles with a conjunctivitis, which has seen nearly 400,000 people since the start of the year infected, speculation has arisen as to what might be driving the virus’s spread. The outbreak of pink eye saw over 50,000 schools shuttered at the start of October in an attempt to stem the spread of the […]
<div data-thumb="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2023/scientists-discover-ho-6.jpg" data-src="https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2023/scientists-discover-ho-6.jpg" data-sub-html="Credit: Cell (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.09.002″> Credit: Cell (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.09.002 How SARS-CoV-2 initiates its replication process during infection is not yet fully understood. Researchers from the Helmholtz Institute Würzburg have now shown for the first time in the journal Cell that it is the human protein SND1 that works together with the […]
Filipa Rijo-Ferreira also named Searle Scholar By Nadia Lathan | October 4, 2023 Infectious disease expert and UC Berkeley School of Public Health Assistant Professor Filipa Rijo-Ferreira was awarded $1.5 million in October for her “high-risk, high-reward” research on circadian rhythms and parasitic infections by the National Institute of Health (NIH) as a Director’s New […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Premature babies in neonatal care units are extremely vulnerable, and susceptible to life-threatening infections. To help keep these babies safe the risk of infection needs to be kept as low as possible. A particular problem is late onset sepsis that starts from three days after birth, when bacteria get into the […]
A Facebook video uploaded on 19 September shows an interview about a potential Australian Covid-19 vaccine that was created using “a tiny fragment of HIV”. The clip has been shared now without the context that this vaccine was never rolled out and the project was stopped in late 2020. The video is originally from a […]
This is the latest information on local infection rates in your neighbourhood from Covid this winter. Concerns have been rising over the new Pirola and Eris strains of the virus which are sweeping through the UK and have been described as highly mutated and also very transmissible. Our gadget which can be used below by […]
Covid cases have spiked 14 per cent in a week according to latest data as the country braces for what could be yet another tough winter for many. In the week leading up to September 23, cases rose by 1,472 as the weather turns colder but deaths with Covid on the death certificate have fallen. […]
