At-home COVID-19 tests: A Mayo Clinic expert answers questions on expiration dates and the new variants
COVID-19 at-home antigen test At-home COVID-19 tests allow you to collect your sample and detect active COVID-19 infections. But what if you have at-home COVID-19 tests nearing expiration or expired on your shelf? Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, says companies set the original test dates arbitrarily due to these diagnostic at-home tests being developed rapidly. So, check your boxes before you toss them. “Now that we are 3 1/2 years into… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - September 18, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
‘Lessons have been forgotten’: is the UK ready for a new Covid variant?
With worrying mutations, limited vaccine rollout, vastly reduced testing and a creaking health service, experts are predicting a tough few months ahead“New variant”, “care home outbreak”, “cases rising”: you’d be forgiven if the headlines aroundPirola, or BA.2.86, the latest Covid strain to arrive in the UK, had triggered a severe case of pandemic deja vu. More than two years since the UK ’s last lockdown, concerns over BA.2.86 – known to have infected dozens of people in the UK as of last weekend, including 28 at a Norfolk care home – have been rising. The worry is over what is “the most striking Sar...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 16, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Charlotte Lytton Tags: Coronavirus NHS Vaccines and immunisation Science Health Infectious diseases Society Source Type: news
CIA bribed its own COVID-19 origin team to reject lab-leak theory, anonymous whistleblower claims
An unnamed CIA whistleblower has made the dramatic allegation that six analysts there were bribed to reject the theory that COVID-19 resulted from a research-related leak of a new coronavirus, according to a press release today from the office of the Republican leading a congressional investigation into the pandemic. The allegation was strongly rejected in a CIA statement released hours later.
A majority of
U.S. intelligence agencies
has so far concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic mostly likely started when SARS-CoV-2 jumped from an infected animal host into people; a wildlife market in Wuhan, China, has re...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 12, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Even cautious experts say don't panic over new Covid wave: CDC admits US in 'strongest place' ever in pandemic - while the World Health Organization says world is in 'a different phase' now
Dr Marion Koopmans - a virologist who advises the World Health Organization - said the world was now in a 'different phase' of the pandemic due to higher levels of immunity from vaccination and previous infection. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Political support for surveillance of Covid waning in Australia despite ‘waves of mutations’, scientists say
Active community testing required on an intermittent basis to see ‘the whole iceberg, not just the tip’, Prof Catherine Bennett saysGet ourmorning and afternoon news emails,free app ordaily news podcastPolitical momentum for the monitoring and surveillance of Covid-19 is “fading”, the Australian virologist who developed a world-first method for rapidly isolating and characterising variants said.Prof Stuart Turville, with the University of New South Wales Kirby Institute, said while the impactof Covid-19 in Australia iswaning, the Sars CoV-2 virus that causes disease is constantly changing and “there is still a lo...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Melissa Davey Medical editor Tags: Health Coronavirus Australia news Infectious diseases Science Medical research Source Type: news
Covid outbreak fears as virologist issues ‘pandemics happen frequently’ warning
EXCLUSIVE: Dr Phillip Gould, a Molecular Virologist at Coventry University, spoke to http://Express.co.uk about the likelihood of another Covid pandemic. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - August 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Genetic Testing of Wastewater Now Common in Detecting New Strains of COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases
Advances in genome sequencing give virologists and microbiologists new tools for tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants to their sources Wastewater surveillance has emerged as an essential tool in the detection and tracking of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus within communities. Though COVID-19 infections are decreasing in the United States—and clinical laboratories are performing fewer diagnostic tests for the disease—researchers […]
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Source: Dark Daily - August 9, 2023 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: swallask Tags: Laboratory News Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Resources Laboratory Testing Molecular Diagnostics, Genetic Testing, Whole Gene Sequencing Source Type: news
How lessons learned from COVID are preparing the world for future health threats
The State Department is putting lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic into action. The Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy is aimed at better preventing, detecting and responding to existing and future health threats. Its first leader is renowned virologist Dr. John Nkengasong.…#statedepartment #johnnkengasong #geoffbennett (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
San Francisco International Airport First in the Nation to Test Wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus
In partnership with the CDC, the collected samples will be sent to approved clinical laboratories for testing as a way to monitor for traces of the SARS-CoV-2 virus Microbiologists and virologists engaged in tracing sources of viral infections will be interested to learn that the San Francisco International Airport (SFO), in partnership with the Centers […]
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Source: Dark Daily - July 28, 2023 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: swallask Tags: Laboratory News Laboratory Resources Laboratory Testing Molecular Diagnostics, Genetic Testing, Whole Gene Sequencing Source Type: news
Scientists Call For Nature Medicine To Retract'Proximal Origins' Lab-Leak Denial: Thacker
Scientists Call For Nature Medicine To Retract 'Proximal Origins' Lab-Leak Denial: Thacker Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The Disinformation Chronicle, Internal communications finding that virologists did not believe the conclusions they published in a prestigious journal has triggered scientists…#pauldthacker #internal #naturemedicine #proximalorigins #wuhan #twitter #scrippsresearchs #kristianandersen #intercept #andersen (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New, Cryptic COVID-19 Lineage Found in Ohio Wastewater by Molecular Virologist Tracking Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Variants
Microbiology team has tracked 37 unique strains of the coronavirus since they began researching lineages two years ago Microbiologists and clinical laboratory scientists will be interested to learn about the discovery of a new strain of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, in wastewater sampled in Ohio. Virologist Marc Johnson PhD, a professor […]
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Source: Dark Daily - July 21, 2023 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: swallask Tags: Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory News Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Testing Molecular Diagnostics, Genetic Testing, Whole Gene Sequencing Source Type: news
Top virologists fear foxes and minks will start next pandemic on dodgy fur farms
The Humane Society International said that "factory farming animals for fur is playing Russian roulette with public health - for an entirely frivolous product." (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - July 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Drugmaker expands access to TB drug
A man with tuberculosis undergoes an electrocardiogram at an Indian clinic that treats drug-resistant TB.
UNIT PARANJPE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
The pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) last week agreed to help make a therapy critical to fighting drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) more widely available and affordable. J&J said it would allow competitors to market generic versions of the lifesaving drug, bedaquiline, in 44 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where the company...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 20, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
US suspends federal funding to Wuhan lab over non-compliance
The U.S. has suspended federal funding to China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) for failing to provide documentation related to concerns over biosafety protocol violations at the facility that has faced questions for years over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. Department of…#hhs #wiv #nih #wuhan #republicans #fbi #christopherwray #costaspitas #martinpollard #sandramaler (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Explainer: Why the U.S. has banned funding for Chinese lab at center of pandemic origin dispute
In a move that has more symbolic than practical impact, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has imposed new sanctions on a Chinese lab at the center of the debate about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A nine-page
HHS memo
made public by a House subcommittee that
’s investigating the pandemic
’s origin suspends and proposes debarment of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)
“from participating in United States Federal Government procurement and nonprocurement programs.” In effect, this bars WIV from receiving U.S. government funding now and po...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 20, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
