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With the 2025 influenza season starting earlier than usual, the NICD urges South Africans to stay vigilant against seasonal viruses like flu and RSV. Learn about the symptoms, preventive measures, and ...
Scientists have identified dozens of human proteins that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on to replicate ...
Test positivity for common cold coronaviruses significantly declined following widespread SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 ...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, has an exceptional ability to overcome host defense barriers. It produces a set of specialized proteins ...
On World Zoonoses Day, the message is clear: the health of humans, animals, and the planet is woven together. By respecting ...
This raises fresh concerns about the risk of animal pathogens infecting people.  Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Wildfire smoke increases indoors activity, raising the risk for airborne disease transmission such as influenza and COVID-19, ...
Deadly viruses throughout history From the Ebola to COVID-19, diseases caused by viruses have killed humans throughout history. Viruses are much older than human beings, possibly even older than ...
Researchers have identified 20 new viruses, including two closely related to the deadly nipah and hendra, in bats in ...
In a research published in the PLOS Journal, the scientists in China have revealed about some never-before-seen viruses in the bats that live close to humans. These viruses are quite closely related ...
CHENNAI: Dr. Danielle Beckman is a neuroscientist whose passion for studying the brain is helping to reveal how viral ...
Covid has largely dropped out of the headlines, but the virus that causes it is still circulating. We ask what we should know about a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the state of the Covid pandemic in 2025 ...