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 largest among them, called KP.2 by scientists, has quickly multiplied in recent weeks to become the now-dominant new COVID-19 strain. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's every-other-weekvariant estimates, KP.2 and another strain with the same FLiRT mutations, ca...
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 ...
Patrick Vallance, the British government's chief scientific adviser, said that the strain "moves fast and is becoming the dominant variant," causing over 60% of infections in London by December. The strain is also concerning because it has so many mutations — nearly two dozen — and some ar...
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...
Despite recent major advances in developing effective vaccines against toxoplasmosis, finding new protective vaccination strategies remains a challenging and elusive goal as it is critical to prevent the disease. Over the past few years, various experimental approaches have shown that developing an effectiv...
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...
East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The new, or ‘novel’ coronavirus is a previously unidentified strain of coronavirus, which is responsible for the outbreak that began in Wuhan, China in December 2019 – and has been nam...
Is acetaminophen popular in the U.S? In the U.S, acetaminophen is one of the most commonly used over-the-counter (OTC) pain relievers available without a prescription.Ibuprofen(Advil,Motrin) andnaproxen(Aleve), both in the NSAID class of drugs, are other popular OTC medications used for ...
from someone with covid-19. while the current understanding is that the virus is not communicable through the air, who reports that the respiratory fluids it lives in can infect people by remaining on a surface where they land and then being picked up through physical contact. the cdc also ...