How is Ivermectin thought to work on COVID-19? For the SARS-CoV-2 virus to make you sick, it has to first infect your cells. Then while inside the cell, the virus makes heaps of copies of itself, so it can spread around your body. ...
The Food and Drug Administration posted an adorable but cautionary YouTube video to warn people that while pets likely can't spread the coronavirus, they can get it from their owners.
People with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 should get somebody else in their household to look after their pet, or if that is not possible, wear a face mask, minimize contact, and practice basic hygiene measures. COVID-19 is a new disease and one we learn more about every day. SARS-C...
Lead author Prof. Dorothee Bienzle from the University of Guelph's pathobiology department said results suggest that cats have a higher rate of COVID-19 infection than dogs. "It has to do with how well the virus latches on to the receptor in the cat or dog's r...
The virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, can directly infect a specialized type of kidney cell. The discovery helps explain why acute kidney injury is one of the main complications observed in patients with severe COVID-19, according to biomedical engineers and virologists at Duke Universi...
WASHINGTON - Sensory symptoms, including loss of taste and smell, sometimes come with COVID-19, but a new study found that COVID-19 can also infect inner ear cells, causing hearing and balance issues in some COVID-19 patients. In the study, published Oct. 29, researchers at MIT ...
"The immune system recognizes the virus you're infected with and tries to find a challenge to it in order to clear the body of this infection. If the virus mutates very fast the next time it infects you, the immune system might not be capable of recognizing...
Can people with asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic COVID-19 infect others: a systematic review of primary datadoi:10.1101/2020.04.08.20054023Aguirre-Duarte NCold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
3D print of a spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19—in front of a 3D print of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle. The spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells. On the virus model, the virus surface (blue) is covered with spike...
TUESDAY, March 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Add another part of your body to the list of what COVID-19 can invade: New research shows mouth cells can be infected with the new coronavirus.Previous studies have shown that the coronavirus infects the upper airways and lungs, the digestive ...