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Dr. Allison McGeer spent the first few days of 2020 hoping she was wrong.A microbiologist in Toronto, who famously survived a SARS infection in 2003, McGeer knew the strange, unexplained pneumonia spreading in China could explode into…

Recently, I was diagnosed with an avoidable cancer. Avoidable had I known more about a common cancer-causing virus — and had I not been misled by a serious gap in the available information.Since the cause of cervical cancer is a virus that…

Residents of China’s Wuhan said Monday they were hopeful for the future and no longer afraid of Covid-19, three years after the city was locked down over what was then a mysterious virus.Since Beijing ordered Wuhan sealed off in a bid to…

<!-- -->China has faced its biggest-ever case surge in recent weeks.Wuhan: Residents of China's Wuhan said Monday they were hopeful for the future and no longer afraid of Covid-19, three years after the city was locked down over what…

If elimination is ultimately not successful or justifiable, an organised transition to another strategy (suppression or mitigation) should be considered. Processes for managing these transitions can draw on experience from the current…

NHS to roll-out breakthrough vaccine to tackle bronchiolitis-causing winter cough virus which puts 29,000 children and 18,000 adults in hospital each yearScientists said Britons will get new vaccine for respiratory syncytial…

An Aston University researcher has created the first ever computer reconstruction of a virus, including its complete native genome. Although other researchers have created similar reconstructions, this is the first to replicate the exact…

Medical science has not yet been able to explain why the Epstein-Barr virus triggers infectious mononucleosis (IM) in some people with initial infections and not in others. But now, a research team led by Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl, head…

Britain is being hit by a norovirus surge — and it might still get worse, experts have suggested.Cases of the winter vomiting bug, which can also cause diarrhoea, for this time of year are 10 per cent above levels seen pre-Covid.Health…

Covid deaths declined again last year as the US continues to emerge from the pandemic.Figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University suggest 267,000 people died from Covid in 2022, down 44 percent from 475,000 in 2021 and 26 percent from…