Armed with air samplers, rope tricks, and —yes—ants, virus hunters spot threats in new ways
On a Friday morning in September last year, Erik Karlsson visited the sprawling Orussey market here, where vendors hawked pots and pans, phone cords and radios, hats and dresses—and myriad types of Southeast Asian food. Dozens of orange-colored, whole roasted pigs hung on hooks, crabs the size of two fists filled buckets, and stacked fruit and dried fish formed mountains on tables.
Karlsson had come for the live poultry, but not because he was planning a dinner. As an epidemiologist at Cambodia’s Pasteur Institute, he was hunting for potentially dangerous pathogens, both known and unknown. He had nothing with him...
Source: ScienceNOW - January 5, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Eleven science stories likely to make big news in 2023
As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its fourth year as a global health emergency, researchers will continue pushing to help make the disease manageable and ordinary. They will track hundreds of subvariants of Omicron, the highly transmissible but seemingly less lethal strain of SARSCoV-2 that dominated in 2022. Virologists will watch the virus’ evolution this year to see whether it has finally slowed or a more dangerous variant pops up, evading much of the immunity that humanity has built up to previous ones. Vaccine researchers hope to develop new shots that provide broad protection against a variety of coronaviruses. Ano...
Source: ScienceNOW - January 4, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
China is flying blind as pandemic rages
Most scientists believe China’s decision to end its zero-COVID policy was long overdue. But now they have a new worry: that the country is collecting and sharing far too little data about the rough transition to a new coexistence with the virus.
China abruptly dropped virtually all controls a month ago, after protests, a sagging economy, and the extreme transmissibility of the virus’ latest variants made clinging to zero COVID untenable. Now, “SARS-CoV-2 has an open goal in front of it: a population with very low levels of standing immunity,” says evolutionary biologist Edward Holmes of the University of Sydn...
Source: ScienceNOW - January 3, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Germany's governing coalition argues over COVID restrictions
Germany's governing coalition is arguing over whether remaining COVID-19 restrictions should be dropped after one of the country's top virologists was quoted as saying that the pandemic is over. Germany has scrapped the bulk of restrictions imposed at the height of the pandemic but, unlike other…#marcobuschmann #christiandrosten #karllauterbach #tagesspiegel #olafscholz (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Germany's governing coalition argues over COVID restrictions
Germany’s governing coalition is arguing over whether remaining COVID-19 restrictions should be dropped after one of the country’s top virologists was quoted as saying that the pandemic is over (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - December 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
FDA Approves Sunlenca (lenacapavir) Twice-Yearly Treatment for People Living With Multi-Drug Resistant HIV
Sunlenca is the First and Only Approved Capsid Inhibitor-Based HIV Treatment Option
New Drug Application Approval Based on High Rates of Sustained Virologic Suppression in the CAPELLA Trial
FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE) December... (Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Approvals)
Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Approvals - December 22, 2022 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Virologist who funded Wuhan lab shares videos of himself in cave filled with 2.5m bats
Virologist Dr. Peter Daszak, who has been associated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology' posted videos of himself and his research team standing in the midst of swarms of bats in Thailand this week. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 12, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Britain should roll out Covid-style LATERAL FLOW tests for Strep A, experts say
EXCLUSIVE: Dr Nicole Robb, a virologist at the University of Oxford, told MailOnline that lateral flow tests should be rolled out to detect Strep A infections earlier. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Health Care Leadership Lifetime Achievement: Dr. Larry Corey, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
"Science can be a blood sport," says Dr. Larry Corey, a renowned virologist with Fred Hutch and UW Medicine. And yet, Corey says "it's been a privilege to do science," as he reflects on his career in immunology. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - December 6, 2022 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Brooke Strickland Source Type: news
Africa: Six Common Covid Myths Busted By a Virologist and a Public Health Expert
[The Conversation Africa] Almost three years into the pandemic, myths and misinformation remain widespread. Here we, a virologist and a public health researcher, debunk some common misconceptions about COVID. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 30, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Happy Birthday, Omicron
One year after the variant ’s discovery, virologists are still scrambling to keep up with Omicron’s rapid evolution. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - November 26, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Carl Zimmer Tags: Coronavirus Omicron Variant Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Immune System Biology and Biochemistry Evolution (Biology) your-feed-science Source Type: news
Cornelia Schroeder obituary
My mother, Cornelia Schroeder, who has died aged 73, was a virologist specialising in influenza and also the editor of her mother ’s memoir.Cornelia spent the early years of her career in her native East Germany, but after its collapse, she went to work at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, London. From 1990 to 1993, she was Wellcome research fellow at the institute ’s division of virology, working on isolation of the influenza virus protein. There, she met an international crowd of like-minded people with whom she remained friends and went hiking in west Wales every year - long after she went ba...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 20, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Paul Schroeder Tags: Medical research Source Type: news
Effects of Low-Frequency Pre-Treatment HIV Drug Resistance Effects of Low-Frequency Pre-Treatment HIV Drug Resistance
A new study suggests that individuals with low-frequency drug-resistant HIV variants may be at a higher risk for experiencing virologic failure after efavirenz-based ART.AIDS (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - November 18, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV/AIDS Journal Article Source Type: news
COVID-19: Epidemiology, virology, and prevention, UpToDate (Updated 10th November 2022)
Coronaviruses are important human and animal pathogens. At the end of 2019, a novel coronavirus was identified as the cause of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, a city in the Hubei Province of China. It rapidly spread, resulting in an epidemic throughout China, followed by a global pandemic. In February 2020, the World Health Organization designated the disease COVID-19, which stands for coronavirus disease 2019 [ 2 External 0 0 0 1 false https://www.uptodate.com/contents/covid-19-epidemiology-virology-and-prevention/abstract/1 true false%>]. The virus that causes COVID-19 is designated severe acute respiratory syndr...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - November 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ebola could have leaked from US biofacility causing 2014 West Africa outbreak, scientists claim
EXCLUSIVE: Virologist Dr Jonathan Latham - a former researcher at the University of Wisconsin - and journalist Sam Husseini say there are a number of inconsistencies in the official timeline. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
