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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an alert last week after the country recorded the first human infection with the H3N2v influenza virus, which normally spreads among swine. “Recent reports of an increase in swine flu outbreaks in swine in the US suggest …

tawatchai07 / Freepik New virus has infected 35 people in China Chinese scientists have warned about a new virus capable of infecting humans. Called Langya henipavirus (LayV), it has infected 35 people in two provinces located in eastern China, Henan and Shandong, but which border each other. The cases were …

Scientists reported in The New England Journal of Medicine 35 people infected in China by the Langya virus, a relative of the Hendra and Nipah viruses. In the article, they add that the discovery came about through sentinel surveillance of febrile patients and animal exposure in eastern …

You are in a public place using your cell phone, texting or using social media. Unexpectedly, you receive a message via AirDrop: “John’s iPhone wants to share a photo”. João is not known, you can accept it or not, but it is necessary to understand the risks of …

Ghana has officially confirmed two cases of Marburg virus infection, which causes a highly contagious disease similar to that caused by ebolainformed the country’s health service this Sunday (17). Two people who died tested positive for the virus on July 10, but the results had to be …

Researchers at Yale, North Carolina and Sydney universities identified a patient infected with the new coronavirus for 471 days. The 60-year-old man, being treated for lymphocytic leukemia and cancer of the lymphatic system, tested positive for Covid for the first time in November 2020 and until March of this year …

CC0 Public domain Covid-19 cases soar 326% in Brazilian pharmacies in May. Antibodies generated by infection with the original version of Ômicron – BA.1, responsible for the Covid-19 wave in January – do not protect against subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, which have become prevalent in Brazil. The conclusion is a …

Like so many Americans, US Vice President Kamala Harris contracted Covid-19 in late April. Like so many Americans, she worked sick, sitting at her desk surrounded by symbols of productivity: binders, pens, colored Post-it notes. Other political figures who contracted Covid assured the public that they were also making progress …