The emergence and global spread of the highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza virus (AIV), a pathogen that has caused continuous and ongoing outbreaks with massive…
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Including 94,400 more deaths than expected in the UK alone. Almost 1 million extra deaths relating to the covid-19 pandemic occurred in 29 high income…
Invasions by alien insect and animal species have much in common with outbreaks of infectious diseases and could tell us a great deal about how…
Schematic and photograph of COVID-19 sensor strip and the printed circuit board fabricated to produce a digital sensor output. Credit: Minghan Xian, Hao Luo, Xinyi…
Launch of SM-3 Block IB interceptor from guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70). Credit: U.S. Navy From engineered pandemics to city-toppling cyber attacks to…
The suitcase laboratory has already been used successfully for other infectious diseases in Africa. Credit: Dr. Ahmed Abd El Wahed Mobile laboratory for rapid detection…
Cryo-electron microscopy reconstruction of Binjari virus. The projecting spikes are a typical feature of immature flaviviruses such as dengue virus but reveal an unexpected organization.…
Hormone Drugs May Disarm COVID-19 Spike, Penn Study Suggests. Credit: Getty Images A new Penn Medicine study shows how anti-androgen drugs disrupt key receptors required…
Chest X-ray from patient severely ill from COVID-19, showing (in white patches) infected tissue spread across the lungs. Credit: Courtesy of Nature Publishing or npj…
Having genetic risk variants in the ABO gene might significantly increase the chances of developing COVID-19, and other genes may also increase COVID-19 risk, according…
Scientists at University College London have identified a new immunotherapy to combat the hepatitis B virus (HBV), the most common cause of liver cancer in…
Humans in the 21st century spend most of their time indoors, but the air we breathe inside buildings is not regulated to the same degree…
The majority of children infected with SARS-CoV-2 may not show typical symptoms such as fever, cough, or shortness of breath, according to a study published…
There is no long-term benefit to surgically placing tympanostomy tubes in a young child’s ears to reduce the rate of recurrent ear infections during the…
Covid-19 patients who receive oxygen therapy or experience fever show reduced gray matter volume in the frontal-temporal network of the brain, according to a new…
Computed tomography of the brain. Patients with clinically diagnosed neurological symptoms associated with COVID-19 are six times more likely to die in the hospital than…
The anti-viral peptide is made up of three corkscrews (in green), which lock around the virus’s fusion protein (in orange) to prevent the virus from…
A scanning electron microscope image of a nanotrap (orange) binding a simulated SARS-CoV-2 virus (dots in green). Scientists at the University of Chicago created these…
Smashing the COVID Curve: Little Differences in Behavior Decide Between Success and Complete Failure
Fluid and turbulence physicist Björn Hof and his team applied the statistical methods to epidemic spreading and discovered surprising features of the infection curves. Credit:…
Scientists Martin Hengesbach (left) and Andreas Schlundt at the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. Credit: Uwe Dettmar for Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany…