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Hantavirus scare a wake-up call: Why India must build its disease X defencesA recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship echoes past pandemic scares. Experts warn Disease X, a future unknown pathogen, is a near cer...
Hantavirus outbreak: How an African lab identified the deadly Andes strainA hantavirus scare aboard a cruise ship off Cape Verde prompted a rapid scientific response, with researchers in Senegal quickly identifyin...
‘Cicada’ COVID variant BA 3.2 spreads to 25 states — what symptoms you should not ignoreThe BA.3.2 COVID-19 subvariant, known as “Cicada,” is spreading across the United States, with cases reported in 25 states and over 20 coun...
BA.3.2 Cicada COVID Variant symptoms: How is it different from previous COVID strains, should you be worried?New Covid variant 2026 Cicada symptoms: The highly mutated new BA.3.2 Cicada COVID Variant has now spread to at least 23 countries, sparkin...
‘Cicada’ Covid variant with 75 mutations is spreading: What it means for youCicada Covid Variant Symptoms: A new COVID variant with 70-75 spike protein mutations has been detected. The new virus can potentially evad...
New ‘Cicada’ COVID variant hits US: What BA.3.2 means and why experts are watchingThe BA.3.2 COVID-19 variant, nicknamed “Cicada,” has emerged in the United States and multiple countries, prompting close monitoring by the...
New study finds link between Covid antiviral drug & virus mutationsA study published in the journal Nature has found a link between the COVID-19 antiviral drug molnupiravir and a pattern of mutations in the...
Covid virus' 'most muted variant' found in Indonesia, claim scientists. What we know so farCovid pandemic has subsided but the most mutated variant of coronavirus has been found in Indonesia. The new variant of the covid virus has...
How Covid virus mutates inside a human bodyResearchers from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology discovered various mutations not included in existing databases and even a n...
'Delta on steroids': What scientists say about next Covid variantThe world is in a very "dangerous period" of the Covid-19 pandemic compounded by more transmissible variants like Delta, which is continuin...
Apart from preventing illness & deaths, Covid vaccines may be curbing new virus mutations, says studySamples from vaccine breakthrough patients showed significantly fewer mutations.
COVID-appropriate behaviour, vaccination main shields against all mutants, future waves: ExpertsSeveral experts believe that a casual approach that followed the trough of the first wave could be a possible reason for the pandemic raisi...
Czech Lab discovers new COVID-19 mutation"Thanks to the sequencing of samples from patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection, our laboratory discovered a hitherto undescribed mutation of ...
COVID may take four to five years to end; uncertainities to remain: Singapore Minister"At some point of time the pandemic will pass, but it may take four to five years before we finally see the end of the pandemic and the sta...
A new COVID-19 challenge: Mutations rise along with casesThe coronavirus is becoming more genetically diverse, and health officials say the high rate of new cases is the main reason. Each new infe...
Covid strain that can ‘fool’ three antibodies found in Mumbai Metropolitan Region“This is one of three mutations (K417N, E484K and N501Y) seen in the South African lineage,” said Dr Nikhil Patkar, associate professor in ...
Pfizer vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants: StudyThe not-yet peer reviewed study by Pfizer and scientists from the University of Texas Medical Branch indicated the vaccine was effective in...
New coronavirus strain spreading in UK has key mutations: ScientistsBritish scientists are trying to establish whether the rapid spread in southern England of a new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 ...
Novel coronavirus can undergo mutations that may make it more deadly & contagious, says studyThe spike protein is also continuing to accumulate additional mutations.
Pan-India COVID-19 genome studies suggest virus genetically stable, no major mutation: PMOThere had been concerns in some quarters that any major mutation detected in the novel coronavirus could hinder the development of an effec...