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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...
- 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...
- "We do not have immunity against it," warn scientists as India’s first bird flu case in cats raises human health concernsIn an alarming first, cases of avian influenza (H5N1) have been found in domestic cats in Chhindwara district, Madhya Pradesh. This raises ...
- Mutations discovered in first severe human bird flu case in the US: What we know so farA severe case of bird flu in Louisiana has led to the discovery of mutations in the H5N1 virus, which may help it bind more easily to human...
- 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...
- Scientists identify antibodies that can block Omicron variantScientists have identified antibodies that neutralise Omicron and other variants of coronavirus by targeting areas that remain essentially ...
- The mutated Covid virus will never really go away: A Velumani“We will not live without fear for a decade if this virus keeps mutating, he says. No need for a booster dose if the virus not mutating, ac...
- SARS-CoV-2 mutations: Why coronavirus might still have some tricks to pullThe SARS-CoV-2 genome is made up of 30,000 individual bases. The rate at which mutations arise is typically expressed as the probability th...
- '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.
- View: Delta+ calls for caution, not panic. Viruses mutate, but its spike protein & antigens are being pounded by vaccinesDesignation of the newly emerged Delta-plus as a “variant of concern” has triggered a debate on implications for viral transmission and vac...
- Some coronavirus mutations may help it evade immune system's T-killer cells, say scientistsWhile antibodies dock directly onto viruses to neutralise them, the scientists, including those from the Medical University of Vienna in Au...
- Over 7K virus mutations reported, Covid-appropriate behaviour key to stop spread, say scientistsScientists also emphasised that these mutations do not translate to variants.
- COVID-19: Amravati surge could be due to mutation, people's carelessness, says Maharashtra officialDr Subhash Salunke, technical adviser to the Maharashtra government on the COVID-19 outbreak, said those with comorbidities are at a greate...
- COVID-19 shots might be tweaked if variants get worseThe makers of COVID-19 vaccines are figuring out how to tweak their recipes against worrisome virus mutations - and regulators are looking ...
- Here's what we do and don't know about new coronavirus mutationsOne mutation -- variant B117, which likely emerged in southeastern England in September, according to Imperial College London -- has now be...
- No major mutation observed in SARS-COV 2, no indication vaccine strategy would be hindered: StudySaumitra Das, the director of the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, said the institutes started sequencing the virus from differen...
- Novel coronavirus mutations may not make it more infectious: StudyCoronaviruses, like other RNA viruses, can develop mutations in three different ways: by mistake from copying errors during viral replicati...
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