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March 25, 2020 7:22 AM
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DOD grant accelerates SARS-CoV-2 vaccine manufacturing

DOD grant accelerates SARS-CoV-2 vaccine manufacturing | Virology News | Scoop.it
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded Ology Bioservices and Inovio Pharmaceuticals an $11.9 million contract to rapidly manufacture DNA vaccines.
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March 25, 2020 7:20 AM
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How to talk to your older parents about the coronavirus

How to talk to your older parents about the coronavirus | Virology News | Scoop.it
Expert tips to help you navigate tough conversations with your parents and guide decisions about staying inside and staying healthy.
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March 25, 2020 7:19 AM
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Lost sense of smell or taste could signal you have COVID-19

Lost sense of smell or taste could signal you have COVID-19 | Virology News | Scoop.it
Sudden loss of sense of smell or taste could be the first symptoms of COVID-19. An expert explains why that is and what to do if it happens to you.
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March 24, 2020 5:18 AM
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50 years ago, scientists were trying to get a grip on Lassa fever

50 years ago, scientists were trying to get a grip on Lassa fever | Virology News | Scoop.it
In 1970, scientists were on the trail of a deadly new virus. Fifty years later, a vaccine is just now being tested in people.
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March 24, 2020 5:17 AM
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Get a peek inside the search for COVID-19 drugs

Get a peek inside the search for COVID-19 drugs | Virology News | Scoop.it
Researchers are working to find drugs that can fight the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Find out what they're doing and why they're optimistic.
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March 24, 2020 5:15 AM
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Human vaccine trial gets underway - Chinadaily.com.cn

Human vaccine trial gets underway - Chinadaily.com.cn | Virology News | Scoop.it
The first clinical trial of the novel coronavirus vaccine in China has begun, and photos and videos of volunteers taking part in the project began to circulate on social media over the weekend.
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March 23, 2020 11:07 AM
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Why the push for a quick coronavirus vaccine could backfire

Why the push for a quick coronavirus vaccine could backfire | Virology News | Scoop.it
“There’s a lot of hope for a [coronavirus] vaccine but there obviously has to be a lot of caution,” said a Vanderbilt University pediatrician....
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March 21, 2020 10:43 AM
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Dr. Richard Hatchett: 60-70% of world's population could become infected with coronavirus

Dr. Richard Hatchett: 60-70% of world's population could become infected with coronavirus | Virology News | Scoop.it
Dr Richard Hatchett, a doctor leading the efforts for a potential vaccine for COVID-19, speaks to Richard Engel on the "big challenge" of his goal of having a coronavirus vaccine in 12-18 months, and explains the extreme virality of COVID-19.
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March 21, 2020 10:42 AM
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When Pigs Fly: Pandemic influenza enters the 21st century

When Pigs Fly: Pandemic influenza enters the 21st century | Virology News | Scoop.it

Introduction Influenza A viruses (IAVs) are one of the most intensively studied pathogens, due to the severe global mortality and economic disruption associated with influenza pandemics [1]. In addition to annual epidemics, pandemics sporadically occur when a novel IAV host jumps to humans from an animal reservoir [2]. Wild waterfowl have long been considered the most important reservoir host and pandemic risk, but there are indications that mammals are emerging as key reservoirs. Here, we describe how the modernization of swine production during the last half century provided new opportunities for IAVs to become established in swine globally [3–5], resulting in the first influenza pandemic of swine origin in 2009 [6]. A key lesson is that the landscape of pandemic risk is not static but continuously shifting in response to demographic changes in host populations. It is therefore vital to track how transformations in the economy and global trade impact animal contact rates, disease dynamics, and pandemic risk among livestock and companion animals. Pigs fly? For centuries, domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) were raised on traditional small-scale farms that could not sustain IAV transmission. Whereas horses and people traveled frequently within and between urban areas, causing recurrent influenza outbreaks in both species as far back as the 13th century [7], influenza was not maintained in any country’s swine population until 1918, when the Spanish influenza H1N1 pandemic virus was introduced from humans into swine in the United States [8]. The H1N1 virus circulated in US swine for most of the 20th century without substantially evolving, causing severe disease, or becoming endemic in swine in other countries. In the latter decades of the 20th century, the replacement of small-scale swine farms with larger, more efficient production systems (Fig 1A) had profound effects on disease dynamics. Enhanced biosecurity improved control of important pathogens, such as hog cholera. But modern production systems often require pigs to be transported long distances between multiple locations specialized in different growth stages, facilitating the spread of IAV in swine (IAV-S; commonly known as swine flu) and other pathogens not specifically targeted for eradication. For example, many large breeding operations located in the southern US find it more efficient to transport fattening pigs to the Midwest “corn belt” than to transport the large volumes of feed back to the south. By the 2000s, trucks were transporting millions of pigs long distances across North America, facilitating the spread of IAV-S along established “swineways” [9]. Download: PPT PowerPoint slide PNG larger image TIFF original image Fig 1. Trends in swine production. (A) Trends in consolidation of swine production in the US, 1964 to 2012 (data available from the US Department of Agriculture and the National Agricultural Statistics Service Quick Stats Database). (B) Growth of global trade (US$) of live animals between all countries, 1961 to 2017 (data available from FAOSTAT). (C) The global distribution and density of swine populations (approximately 1 billion animals) is depicted by points shaded along a gradient from light red (1 to 5 swine per km2) to black (more than 250 swine per km2). Lines with arrows depict the direction and volume of routes of trade (US$) of live swine, summarized by region and over the time period 1996 to 2012. Trade data available from United Nations Comtrade Database. Digital layers from GLW (version 2.01) [38] were downloaded from the publicly available Livestock Geo-Wiki database. FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization Statistical Database (United Nations); GLW, Gridded Livestock of the World.

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March 21, 2020 5:46 AM
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Dogs can ease your self-quarantine stress

Dogs can ease your self-quarantine stress | Virology News | Scoop.it
Dogs can ease our stress during these times of COVID-19 self-quarantine, an expert explains. As an extra bonus, we can do the same for them.
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March 19, 2020 8:46 AM
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An effective treatment for COVID-19 has been found in a common anti-malarial drug

An effective treatment for COVID-19 has been found in a common anti-malarial drug | Virology News | Scoop.it
UPDATE: A Covid-19 case correlation between malarial and non-malarial countries has been plotted by Dr. Roy Spencer, and the results are stunning – see below. Encouraging news: three new medi…
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March 19, 2020 5:17 AM
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Impact of HPV vaccine hesitancy on cervical cancer in Japan: a modelling study

Impact of HPV vaccine hesitancy on cervical cancer in Japan: a modelling study | Virology News | Scoop.it
The HPV vaccine crisis to date is estimated to result in around 5000 deaths from cervical
cancer in Japan. Many of these deaths could still be prevented if vaccination coverage
with extended catch-up can be rapidly restored.
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March 19, 2020 5:15 AM
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Bill Gates says healthcare workers may get a coronavirus shot within 18 months as scientists race to develop a vaccine

"We will need literally billions of vaccines to protect the world," Gates said.
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March 25, 2020 7:20 AM
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Watch out for myths about COVID-19 'miracle cures'

Watch out for myths about COVID-19 'miracle cures' | Virology News | Scoop.it
Lots of people believe in misinformation and myths about COVID-19 causes and "cures," a new survey shows. But the results weren't all bad.
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March 25, 2020 7:20 AM
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'Do I have COVID-19?' Free online tool does triage

'Do I have COVID-19?' Free online tool does triage | Virology News | Scoop.it
If you find yourself asking "Do I have COVID-19?" consider this free online tool that sorts people into high, intermediate, and low risk.
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March 25, 2020 7:19 AM
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Global Porcine Circovirus Vaccine Market Sales Channel, Industry in Detailed Analysis, Sales and Forecast to 2025

Global Porcine Circovirus Vaccine Market Sales Channel, Industry in Detailed Analysis, Sales and Forecast to 2025 | Virology News | Scoop.it
Mar 25, 2020 (The Expresswire) -- The “Porcine Circovirus Vaccine Market” Report 2020 is a valuable source of insightful data for business strategists. It...
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March 24, 2020 5:18 AM
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Feds to invest $192M to help create and produce coronavirus vaccine, says Trudeau - Video

Feds to invest $192M to help create and produce coronavirus vaccine, says Trudeau - Video | Virology News | Scoop.it
Justin Trudeau says the federal government is planning to invest $192 million to help create and produce vaccines for COVID-19. The prime minister says money will be distributed to a number of different companies and universities.
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March 24, 2020 5:17 AM
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Tuberculosis BCG-based vaccine may be effective against COVID-19

Tuberculosis BCG-based vaccine may be effective against COVID-19 | Virology News | Scoop.it
VPM1002, a vaccine candidate based on the tuberculosis BCG vaccine, may be effective in protecting against COVID-19. Previous studies in mice have shown the BCG vaccine is effective at protecting against several respiratory viral infections.
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March 23, 2020 11:12 AM
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Coronavirus: What India can learn from the deadly 1918 flu

Coronavirus: What India can learn from the deadly 1918 flu | Virology News | Scoop.it
The Spanish flu that struck India a century ago has striking similarities with the coronavirus outbreak.
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March 23, 2020 11:06 AM
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Flu fighter Avigan gets coronavirus call after 30 years in bullpen

Flu fighter Avigan gets coronavirus call after 30 years in bullpen | Virology News | Scoop.it
TOKYO -- Three days after Beijing endorsed the Japan-developed flu drug Avigan as a treatment for COVID-19, Indonesia is importing millions of do...
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March 21, 2020 10:43 AM
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Coronavirus: Are anti-vaxxers ready to believe in vaccines again?

Coronavirus: Are anti-vaxxers ready to believe in vaccines again? | Virology News | Scoop.it
With coronavirus on the rampage, perhaps the people who don’t believe in vaccinations will rethink their irresponsible position.
Paul Epping's curator insight, April 11, 2020 5:12 AM

We have been seeing this all over the world. People who refuse vaccins for a variety of reasons. If this continues, I think that it is a potential threat for humanity and agree with with people who think that this is irresponsible behaviour. Viruses don't have  believes...nor passports... nor mercy 

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March 21, 2020 10:39 AM
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What We Know So Far About SARS-CoV-2

What We Know So Far About SARS-CoV-2 | Virology News | Scoop.it
We’ve known about SARS-CoV-2 for only three months, but scientists can make some educated guesses about where it came from and why it’s behaving in such an extreme way.
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March 21, 2020 5:22 AM
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Coronavirus: WHO says health systems collapsing, 'This isn't just a bad flu season'

Coronavirus: WHO says health systems collapsing, 'This isn't just a bad flu season' | Virology News | Scoop.it
On Thursday, the number of people who have died from COVID-19 in Italy surpassed that of China.
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March 19, 2020 5:20 AM
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A deadly virus is spreading from state to state and has infected 19 million Americans so far. It's influenza

A deadly virus is spreading from state to state and has infected 19 million Americans so far. It's influenza | Virology News | Scoop.it
The coronavirus is prompting Americans to buy up surgical masks. Another virus, the flu, has killed more than 10,000 this season alone. Because the flu is a constant in Americans' lives, the familiarity makes it more dangerous to underestimate.
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March 19, 2020 5:16 AM
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Coronavirus: Why India Will Pay a Great Price Without a National Task-Force

Coronavirus: Why India Will Pay a Great Price Without a National Task-Force | Virology News | Scoop.it
India did not profitably exploit the legacies of polio elimination in this decade or of smallpox eradication in the 1970s.
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