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Individual COVID-19 infections include multiple variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, research shows

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University found wide genetic variation in SARS-CoV-2 viruses among 360 patients whose viral infections were genetically sequenced, showing that all individual infections include...

15 September, 2022

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Women more likely to have long COVID, different symptom profile

Women are significantly more likely than men to experience long COVID, with symptoms that follow a distinct clinical pattern, researchers reported. They said more efforts are needed to explore sex differences in...

22 June, 2022

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As monkeypox threat grows, scientists debate best vaccine strategy

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...

9 June, 2022

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Ebola virus hides out in brain

Monkeys treated with monoclonal antibodies fully recovered, but infection recurred The Ebola virus can hide in the brains of monkeys that have recovered after medical treatment without causing symptoms and lead to...

18 April, 2022

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Test can predict severe dengue infection, study finds

Researchers have created a test that can predict which dengue patients will likely have mild symptoms and which should be clinically monitored for a high risk of severe illness. Most of the about 390 million people...

30 March, 2022

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Meningococcal vaccination rates low among patients with complement component deficiencies

Meningococcal vaccination rates are low among eligible patients with complement component deficiencies, according to a study of U.S. data. Researchers used a nationwide database to assess uptake of vaccines against...

15 November, 2021

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Sex of the fetus influences the mother’s response to Covid-19 infection, new research shows

In April 2020, as SARS-CoV-2 was first beginning to spread through New England, researchers at two hospitals in Boston — Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s — began attending deliveries in the Covid units to...

20 October, 2021

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‘Critical mass’ of scientists launches Institute to tackle infectious diseases

Imperial College London launched a pioneering new Institute to tackle some of the biggest challenges in infectious disease. The new Institute of Infection brings together one of the largest critical masses of...

11 October, 2021

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‘It’s only a matter of time’: bat-human virus spillovers may be very common, study finds

Covid-19 has been called a “once in a century” pandemic, but new research suggests that the kind of event thought to have sparked its outbreak – the spillover of a bat virus to people – is more common than previously...

20 September, 2021

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Princeton researchers expose consequences of vaccine nationalism

A Princeton University and McGill University study published Aug. 17 in Science journal revealed that vaccine nationalism may lead to increases in the transmission of COVID-19. The authors define vaccine nationalism as...

14 September, 2021

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