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Ed Rybicki
April 16, 2021 7:50 AM
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Cocoa powder added to the diet of obese mice markedly reduced the severity of liver disease. Researchers suggest the findings have implications for people.
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April 16, 2021 7:49 AM
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Many Africans who have received their first Covid-19 vaccine do not know when they will get a second shot because deliveries are delayed, the continent's top public health official said on Thursday.
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Ed Rybicki
April 16, 2021 7:49 AM
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New poll results find that the vast majority of teenagers and young adults want to get the COVID-19 vaccine or have already.
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Ed Rybicki
January 25, 2021 5:06 AM
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Replication of a hyperimmune response in nonhuman primates could one day lead to treatments for people with severe cases of COVID-19.
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Ed Rybicki
January 25, 2021 5:05 AM
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PUNE, India: The tiny clinking vials supervised by silent PPE-wearing technicians belie the excitement inside the world's largest vaccine ...
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January 25, 2021 5:04 AM
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Read more about Pakistan close to approving Russia's Sputnik vaccine as Covid cases rise on Business Standard. The country has already ordered 1.2 million doses from Chinese state-backed vaccine developer Sinopharm.
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Ed Rybicki
January 22, 2021 5:23 AM
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SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2, a novel lineage of the coronavirus causing COVID-19, contains multiple mutations within two immunodominant domains of the spike protein. Here we show that this lineage exhibits complete escape from three classes of therapeutically relevant monoclonal antibodies. Furthermore 501Y.V2 shows substantial or complete escape from neutralizing antibodies in COVID-19 convalescent plasma. These data highlight the prospect of reinfection with antigenically distinct variants and may foreshadow reduced efficacy of current spike-based vaccines.
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January 22, 2021 5:18 AM
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Cabinet will meet today to discuss an agreement between the government and GPs to ensure the smooth roll-out of the Astrazeneca vaccine.A senior government source confirmed that a Department of Health...
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Ed Rybicki
January 22, 2021 5:17 AM
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The loneliness that comes with the COVID-19 pandemic is particularly hard on people under 30 and those with previous mental health issues, research finds.
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Ed Rybicki
January 22, 2021 5:15 AM
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Seychelles and Myanmar will be getting Made in India vaccines on Friday.
Seychelles will get 50,000 doses of vaccines on Friday at around 1 pm local time. The amount is significant since the population of the country is 97,000.
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Ed Rybicki
January 22, 2021 5:11 AM
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A new form of African swine fever identified in Chinese pig farms is most likely caused by illicit vaccines, industry insiders say, a fresh blow to the world's largest pork producer, still recovering from a devastating epidemic of the virus.
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Ed Rybicki
January 19, 2021 5:26 AM
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The "Spanish" influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, which caused approximately 50 million deaths worldwide, remains an ominous warning to public health. Many questions about its origins, its unusual epidemiologic features, and the basis of its pathogenicity remain unanswered.
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January 19, 2021 5:25 AM
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Chinese health experts called on Norway and other countries to suspend the use of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines produced by companies such as Pfizer, especially among elderly people, due to the vaccines' safety uncertainties following the deaths of 23 elderly Norwegian people who received the...
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Ed Rybicki
April 16, 2021 7:50 AM
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Influenza viruses cause annual epidemics and occasional pandemics of respiratory tract infections that produce a wide spectrum of clinical disease severity in humans. The novel betacoronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in December 2019 and has since...
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April 16, 2021 7:49 AM
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Research into how chronic inflammation promotes muscle fibrosis could lead to new therapies for people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal disease.
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April 16, 2021 7:49 AM
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Namibia suspends poultry imports from South Africa over bird flu CHRISTIAN FERNSBY ▼ | April 16, 2021 Namibia on Thursday suspended all poultry and bird imports from neighboring South Africa following an avian flu outbreak there. AFRICA Chief Veterinary Officer Albertina Shilongo Chief Veterinary Officer Albertina Shilongo with the Namibian Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform, said the suspension is in place as a pre-cautionary measure in the next 21 days. Topics: NAMIBIA SOUTH AFRICA She said so far there have not been any imported cases recorded in Namibia and they are monitoring the situation in South Africa. All consignments containing poultry products from South Africa, she said, will be blocked at the point of entry or sent back. All current valid import permits for poultry products have also been suspended with immediate effect until the situation improves. ■ WHAT TO READ NEXT
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January 25, 2021 5:05 AM
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The government’s chief scientific adviser criticised the health secretary yesterday for suggesting that vaccines would be 50 per cent less effective against the South African variant of coronavirus.
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January 25, 2021 5:04 AM
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Viruses are notorious for rapidly exchanging genetic information between close relatives and with the host cells they infect. This exchange has profound effects on the nature and rapidity of virus ...
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January 25, 2021 5:04 AM
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Revisiting the Spanish flu: the 1918 influenza pandemic in Rio de Janeiro1 Adriana da Costa Goulart Master's in Social History from Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF); Rua Mariz e Barros, 98/401; 24220-121 Niterói – RJ Brazil; adrianacgoulart@yahoo.com.br ABSTRACT The article analyzes the political and social impacts of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic in the city of Rio de Janeiro, then Brazil's federal capital. Through an analysis of press reports from Rio de Janeiro and of other documentation, I explore how the epidemic served as a tool for political engineering. Data sources include annals, reports, and bulletins from a federal ministry, the Mayor's Office, and the Chamber of Deputies, along with studies from the Brazilian Academy of Medicine and dissertations from Rio de Janeiro's Faculdade de Medicina. My concern is how the epidemic impacted the representation of certain political and social actors and how it reaffirmed a group of sanitarians as an intelligentsia with a vocation for political leadership–a group that came to play a key role in the process of modernizing Brazilian society. Keywords: Spanish flu; epidemic; public health; political and social history; governability; political and social representation; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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January 22, 2021 5:19 AM
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It may be a divisive move but proof of inoculation is likely to become the norm for anyone wanting to travel and enjoy life...
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January 22, 2021 5:18 AM
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MANILA: The Philippines is now free of the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus, the Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday (Jan 19), citing a ...
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January 22, 2021 5:16 AM
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China is rushing to build a massive quarantine camp that can house more than 4,000 people, after an outbreak of Covid-19 this month that has left tens of millions of people under strict lockdown....
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Ed Rybicki
January 22, 2021 5:14 AM
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Coronavirus measures like mask-wearing and increased vaccination rates have contributed to historically low levels of seasonal influenza, leading some to explore what might help most after the pandemic ends.
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January 19, 2021 5:27 AM
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Sometimes the most unexpected situations can give us the most cherishable moments of life. Undoubtedly, the abrupt quarantine period was a bit harsh to deal with as no one was actually prepared for it but then we coped up well. On one hand, staying at home seemed to be a conundrum for humans, it turned …
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Ed Rybicki
January 19, 2021 5:25 AM
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The longer the the EU is travelling in the vaccine slow lane, the more politically toxic it will become.
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