Monkeypox: How to protect against the rare viral threat
Infectious disease and public health specialists have raised an alarm as cases of monkeypox have spread throughout Europe and the United States.
Monkeypox is a...
Vaccination reduce COVID death risk by almost 60%
Scientists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found the U.S. COVID-19 vaccination program slashed the coronavirus's expected death rate by as...
The biggest risk factors for COVID-19 death
Scientists from the University of Maryland found that hospitalized COVID-19 patients have a greater risk of dying if they are men or if they are...
Antibodies cannot effectively inhibit new omicron subvariants BA.2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5
Scientists from the German Primate Center found that "new" omicron subvariants BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5 are less efficiently blocked by antibodies compared to the...
1 in 5 people who died from COVID-19 in the last two years had...
Scientists from Alzheimer's Research UK found that just over one in five (21.8%) individuals who died of COVID-19 between 2020 and 2021 were living...
Younger and healthy adults may not need 4th COVID vaccine shot, study finds
In a recent study from the Sheba Medical Center, scientists found that the fourth dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines offers little benefit to younger...
Dominant omicron subvariants can evade COVID-19 vaccines and antibody treatments
Scientists from Columbia University found the latest omicron subvariants—including the BA.4 and BA.5 forms causing new surges in infections in the United States—are even...
Vaccination after infection may decrease your risk of long COVID
Scientists from Office for National Statistics found that vaccination after infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is associated with a decrease in...
Scientists develop rapid COVID-19 test to identify variants in hours
Scientists from UT Southwestern developed CoVarScan, a rapid COVID-19 test that detects the signatures of eight hotspots on the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
They showed that their...
2 in 5 COVID-19 survivors get a new disability, study finds
In a recent study from Monash University, scientists found six months after recovering from COVID-19 critical illness, one in five people had died, and...