Genome sequencing confirms that monkeypox cases outside Africa are all related and suggests the virus responsible may have been circulating in people since 2017 Rather than jumping to humans from animals recently, the...
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is common cause of infections such as pneumonia. Most cases and deaths in young children occur in lower-income countries. Passive immunisation campaign urged for babies under six months...
Favored shot is a seemingly safer smallpox vaccine, but efficacy remains unclear In 1959, German microbiologist Anton Mayr took a strain of vaccinia, a poxvirus used to inoculate against smallpox, and started to grow it...
The number of Legionnaires’ disease cases has increased from 19 to 24, and the death toll has risen from 1 to 2, the New York City health department said on June 1st, 2022. Four people are currently hospitalized...
SUMOylation inhibitor could lead to highly effective ways to treat the flu and other respiratory viruses It happens every year, especially in winter. A virus saunters into your wide-open respiratory tract, worms its way...
A method of highly accurate and sensitive virus identification using Raman spectroscopy, a portable virus capture device and machine learning could enable real-time virus detection and identification to help battle...
A new 23-country study by a multidisciplinary team of researchers in the journal Vaccine, published by Elsevier, sheds light on the factors that contribute to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among healthcare providers. To...
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified a new vaccine candidate against pneumococci, bacteria that can cause pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis. The vaccine molecules comprise nano-sized membrane vesicles...
The pandemic is changing the genetic landscape of virus strains A University of Sydney- led study reveals how the pandemic has changed the normal patterns of winter viruses in Australia, with new strains emerging and...
For nearly two years, as the Covid pandemic disrupted life around the globe, other infectious diseases were in retreat. Now, as the world rapidly dismantles the measures put in place to slow spread of Covid, the viral...