An obscure family of viruses, already endemic in wild African primates and known to cause fatal Ebola-like symptoms in some monkeys, is “poised for spillover”…
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New research may explain why some people with COVID-19 only experience minor, flu-like symptoms and others have severe disease that can result in death. It…
People who have had COVID-19 are at an elevated risk of developing neurological conditions within the first year after infection, according to a detailed analysis…
Huge clumps of E. coli (red) infecting diabetic mouse bladder. Credit: Soumitra Mohanty Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are associated with lowered immunity…
Scientists have discovered that a type of bacteria is not as harmless as previously thought. It can actually cause infections in patients with bronchiectasis, asthma,…
Disease spillover risk was poorly communicated and oversimplified during COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious…
According to a large, new study, older people who were infected with COVID-19 show a substantially higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease within a year.…
Researchers have taken a step toward the development of a therapeutic that can treat infection of antibiotic-resistant strains of anthrax in mice without antibiotics. Anthrax-causing…
Two antibodies that neutralize all known strains of COVID-19 – including Omicron – with up to 95% efficiency have been isolated by researchers. There is…
Researchers developed a substance that boosted the immune response to an experimental COVID-19 shot in mice by 25 times, compared to injection with the vaccine…
Researchers have found that metformin, a commonly prescribed diabetes medication, lowers the odds of emergency department visits, hospitalizations, or death due to COVID-19 by over…
According to new research from Cedars-Sinai, most people that were infected with the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, didn’t know they…
The new Omicron BA.5 subvariant has caused a sharp rise in cases and hospitalizations throughout much of the United States. The COVID omicron subvariant known…
A group of global experts convened by WHO has agreed on new names for monkeypox virus variants. As part of ongoing efforts to align the…
Hair loss was significantly associated as a symptom of Long Covid, one of 62 symptoms revealed in the latest research. Health records from 2.4 million…
Polio is endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2022. Credit: Sarah Poser, Meredith Boyter Newlove/CDC On July 21, 2022, New York state health officials…
The monkeypox virus, which causes a rash and other symptoms, can be transmitted through close contact between people. Countries that are United Nations members are…
Staphylococcus aureus bacteria are generally harmless, but can sometimes become an opportunistic pathogen. Past efforts to develop a vaccine have proved fruitless. Credit: NIAID The…
“Animals vaccinated with the mosaic-8 nanoparticles elicited antibodies that recognized virtually every SARS-like betacoronavirus strain we evaluated,” says Caltech postdoctoral scholar Alexander Cohen (PhD ’21),…
Scientists are making progress on the development of pan-coronavirus antiviral medications that can treat people infected by SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses. Speeding up the search…