An advance team from the World Health Organization (WHO) has arrived in China to prepare an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. The virus that causes COVID-19, which is believed to have started in animals before jumping...
Related topics: Virology
Ethen Kim Lieser
Health, Americas
You could help humanity beat this evil virus.
A new website—coronaviruspreventionnetwork.org—has recently launched to allow individuals in the U.S. to register for clinical trials for coronavirus...
Related topics: Vaccines, Clinical Trials, Virology
The third recovery phase will be "one of slower growth, likely in fits and starts," and will be defined by the path of the virus," the bank said.
Related topics: Virology
In the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the advance of COVID-19 presents indigenous people with a cruel cultural dilemma — remain in their villages with little medical help, or seek safety in the city and risk being deprived of their ancestral...
Related topics: Virology, Amazon
They call themselves “long-haulers”, “long-tailers”, or simply survivors. Some have been sick almost as long as the new coronavirus is known to have existed. Six months after the virus began to scorch its way across the...
Related topics: Virology
President Donald Trump’s top health officials can no longer use the White House briefing room as a daily bullhorn for public safety messaging during the pandemic, so they’ve settled on a different strategy: contradict Trump on other...
Related topics: Donald Trump, Virology, White House
THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 -- Aerosol boxes meant to protect health care workers when they intubate COVID-19 patients may actually increase their exposure to airborne virus particles, an Australian study warns.
Intubation is done when patients are...
Related topics: Medical Research, Virology
(MedPage Today) -- As modalities to prevent HIV infection continue to expand, from oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to injectable formulations, trials for HIV vaccines must take these into account and ensure that ethical principles are being...
Related topics: HIV, HIV Vaccine, Vaccines
A new article investigating the differences in CT findings between coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia and influenza virus pneumonia found that most lesions from COVID-19 were located in the peripheral zone and close to the pleura, whereas...
Related topics: Influenza (Flu), Virology, Pneumonia
Egyptian security agencies have tried to stifle criticism about the handling of the coronavirus health crisis by President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi's government
Related topics: Virology
THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- Factors smaller than a cell and as large as the planet are at play when a virus leaps from an animal to a human.
The question of how that happened with SARS-CoV-2, which causes the...
Related topics: Virology, Cardiovascular Disease
A small study of 31 women with COVID-19 in Italy found signs of the virus in samples of umbilical cord blood, the placenta and, in one case, breast milk.
Related topics: Medical Research, Virology, Umbilical Cord
Researchers propose a decentralized, global wildlife biosurveillance system to identify -- before the next pandemic emerges -- animal viruses that have the potential to cause human disease.
Related topics: Medical Research, Virology
To children of the '90s, Bill Nye The Science Guy was an icon of breaking it down. You want to understand volcanoes, phases of matter, or evolution? Bill Nye was your (science) guy. But Nye's qualifications don't end at TV show host for kiddos. He's...
Related topics: Virology
(MedPage Today) -- Women with HIV tended to gain more weight than men when treated with an antiretroviral therapy that included tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) when compared with other standard-of-care therapies in South Africa, researchers reported...
Related topics: HIV, South Africa, Medical Research
Via the AP: Health official: Trump rally ‘likely’ source of virus surge
President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa in late June that drew thousands of participants and large protests “likely contributed” to a...
Related topics: Donald Trump, Virology, Protests
“Coronavirus patients are pouring into hospitals across the American South and West, straining front-line doctors and nurses and draining supplies of protective gear and testing equipment, according to health-care workers around the...
Related topics: Virology, Nursing
Half a year into the pandemic, it’s well-accepted that coronavirus can be spread when an infected person expels respiratory droplets by coughing or sneezing.But can the virus be transmitted in microscopically small droplets that are released into...
Related topics: Virology
Public health experts warn that we don't know enough about how the virus impacts kids, but we do know schools could create "super-spreading" locations.
Related topics: Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Virology
(MedPage Today) -- A universal access program offering HIV prevention at community-based HIV testing sites in rural African communities significantly reduced the incidence of HIV infections compared with expected infections, especially among women...
Related topics: HIV