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What Virus Caused Its First-Ever U.S. Death?
Quizzes > Weekly News Quiz — You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz by MedPage Today Staff February 17, 2024 The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up
The avian flu virus is rapidly spreading through commercial flocks in the U.S.
The Avian influenza summer break is not only over, it has been smashed. In the past 30 days, the virus has spread to 106 commercial flocks in 23 states. And California is the latest to report outbreaks —in two broiler operations in Stanislaus County and an egg-laying business in Sonoma County. The numbers depopulated are
An ‘Unimaginable’ Virus Named Gorgon Was Found Buried in a Massachusetts Forest
Back in 2018, scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI) made an unexpected discovery in Harvard Forest—a roughly six-square-mile area west of Boston. While trying to understand how microbes reacted to warming soil due to climate change, the researchers stumbled upon a collection of “giant” viruses
How a SARS-CoV-2 virus protein damages the heart?
SARS-CoV-2 infection causes COVID-19. The presence of the virus in the cardiac tissue of patients with COVID-19 suggests this is a direct, rather than secondary, the effect of infection. People infected with COVID-19 are at a significantly higher risk for developing heart muscle inflammation, abnormal heart rhythms, blood clots, stroke, heart attacks, and heart failure
The unique way this virus sneaks into a cell’s nucleus could advance the study of cancer-causing pathogens
Credit: Justine Ross, Michigan Medicine Viruses are tiny packets of destruction and there are more of them than any other biological entity on the planet. Luckily, only a few hundred are known to make people sick, and figuring out what makes those viruses tick can help prevent illness. What's more, examining the way viruses have
E. coli that is recoded to be virus resistant may aid drug production
Changing Escherichia coli's genetic code may enable the recoded bacterium to be grown in large vats for drug production, without the risk of a viral infection upending the process Life 4 August 2022 By Michael Le Page Genetically engineered Escherichia coli is involved in the production of many chemicals and drugs, such as insulin, but unmodified…
CDC recommends children stay up to date on their vaccinations and that parents and caregivers practice preventive actions such as hand hygiene, avoiding people who are sick, covering coughs and sneezes, and avoiding touch the eyes, nose or mouth. Nine young children from Alabama affected by a mysterious hepatitis (inflammation of the liver) all tested…
Dogs sniff out virus with high accuracy variant that combines Delta and Omicron
The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review. “Deltacron” with genes of Delta and Omicron found Hybrid versions of the coronavirus that combine genes from the Delta and Omicron variants –…
Zombie Virus: K-Zombie
Zombie Virus: K-Zombie has just been released on Android. It has been developed and published by Clegames. In Zombie Virus, you fight against bloodthirsty zombies for your survival. It features two modes - Scenario and PvP Mode. Scenario mode is where you battle against the zombie waves solo. In this post, we will share some…
Epstein-Barr virus may be the cause of Multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system that attacks the myelin sheaths protecting neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Until now, there has been no definitive cure to it. A new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers suggests that MS is likely caused…