Past pandemic outbreaks have typically originated from animal viruses before crossing over to humans. These can spread rapidly around the world because people do not have the immunity needed to fight the new infection. COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, the sixth pandemic declared in...
The World Health Organization declared the recently discovered B.1.1.529 strain of the COVID-19 virus to be a variant of concern on November 26 and renamed it Omicron. The classification puts Omicron into the most-troubling category of COVID-19 variants, along with the globally dominant Delta...
The World Health Organization has declared a global health emergency over the deadly new strain of virus that has infected thousands of people and leftmore than 1,000 dead. Chinese officials haveblocked all transportation in and out of the cityof Wuhan and surrounding areas, where the outbreak ...
This is another German microscope examination. He starts to breathe warm air on it and it starts to move. It is is still wrapped in plastic, so the effect has nothing to do with airflow. The next one is in English. She is wiping it on some meat. I wonder if Morgellon’s disease i...
Peter Forster is a geneticist and vice president of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research, at Cambridge University. He's the lead author of a paper by academics from the UK and Germany, which has reconstructed the "evolutionary path" of the COVID-19...
COVID-19: What to know about the new strain XEC Article content And now there’s a new COVID-19 strain to consider. Article content Article content It’s called XEC, but what is it and will it cause a surge in cases? Experts say it’s unlikely to cause more severe illness but ...
According to the latest projections published by the CDC, around 28.2% of COVID-19 cases nationwide are now being caused by a sublineage of the virus called the KP.2 variant. The next largest variant on the rise is another JN.1 descendant called JN.1.16. That strain has not grown as ...
What do you really want to accomplish this year?1If the COVID-19 pandemic taught us anything, hopefully one of those things was that we really don’t know what’s coming down the pike. There’s no way to tell what might happen over the next 12 months. Similarly, there’s no way to...
COVID-19 and the new variant strain in England – What are the implications for those from ethnic minority groups?doi:10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100805Daniel Pan a bShirley Sze cChristopher A Martin a bClareece R Nevill dJatinder S Minhas c...
A new COVID-19 strain, dubbed XEC, is making the rounds. Here’s what you should know about the new variant. This Season Trending Today Latest Weather Health Sun & Moon Travel Climate Weather in your inbox Your local forecast, plus daily trivia, stunning photos and our meteorologists’ top...