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SARS-CoV-2: Was it a bio-weapon or natural pandemic?
Updated : 1 week, 4 days ago IST
There are also reports that Chinese military virologists collected dangerous viruses from wild animals around the world, or stole them while posing as co-researchers, as they did from National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Canada.
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WHO chief asks China for rapid reliable data on COVID deaths
Updated : 3 weeks, 3 days ago IST
This comes as WHO held a high-level meeting with counterparts in China last week to discuss the surge in cases and hospitalisations. Subsequently, WHO's Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution and the COVID-19 clinical management expert network groups both met with Chinese
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Nasal swab can provide early warning of emerging viruses: Research
Updated : 3 weeks, 4 days ago IST
As the Covid-19 pandemic showed, potentially dangerous new viruses can begin to spread in the population well before the global public health surveillance system can detect them.
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Research suggests precision insights can be found in wastewater
Updated : 3 weeks, 6 days ago IST
Research from Fangqiong Ling's lab at Washington University in St. Louis discovered that the amount of SARS-CoV-2 in a wastewater system was linked to the disease burden of COVID-19 in the region it served.
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INSACOG to hold meeting today on genome sequencing and presence of differe
Updated : 1 month ago IST
The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics (INSACOG) will hold a virtual meeting Friday evening on Genome sequencing which will focus on the genome sequencing results of international travellers who tested Covid-19 positive, sources told ANI.
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Covid-19 booster increases durability of antibody response: Research
Updated : 1 month ago IST
New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine speaks to the benefits of a Covid-19 booster. The new findings shed light on how mRNA boosters - both Pfizer and Moderna - affect the durability of our antibodies to Covid-19. A booster, the researchers report, made for longer-l
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Cystic fibrosis drug could help treat pneumonia: Research
Updated : 1 month ago IST
Pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 and pneumococcus can cause severe pneumonia. If the airways then fill with fluid, the patient risks developing acute respiratory distress syndrome.
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Covid-19 vaccine protects patients with blood cancer: Study
Updated : 1 month ago IST
People with blood cancer usually have a weak immune system, putting them at an increased risk of becoming very ill from COVID-19. Furthermore, several cancer treatments cause these individuals to develop little or no antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 after COVID-19 vaccination.
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WHO chief again asks China to share requested data on COVID-19
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Three years after its emergence in China's Wuhan, exactly how SARS-CoV-2 first emerged as a respiratory pathogen capable of sustained human-to-human transmission remains the subject of active debate.
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Acids help against airborne viruses: Research
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, influenza virus and others travel from person to person essentially by hitchhiking on aerosols. These are finely dispersed particles containing liquid suspended in the air that an infected person expels when coughing, sneezing, or simply exhaling, and can be inhal
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Research finds how antibody therapy impacts COVID vaccines
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
Nearly three years into the pandemic, many of us now carry antibodies against the virus--due to an infection or two, a few doses of mRNA vaccine, or a round of monoclonal-antibody treatment. But not all immune responses are created equal, and how we first developed our antibodies may influen
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Research shows how a viral toxin may exacerbate severe COVID-19
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
A new study in the journal Nature Communications reveals how a viral toxin produced by the SARS-CoV-2 virus may contribute to severe COVID-19 infections. The study shows how a portion of the SARS-CoV-2 "spike" protein can damage cell barriers that line the inside of blood vessels within orga
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