Tag: virus
Health Ministry cautions Indonesian Hajj pilgrims over Mers-CoV risk
Indonesia’s Ministry of Health has issued a reminder for Indonesian Hajj pilgrims to remain vigilant against the risk of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (Mers-CoV) during their time in Saudi Arabia. Between March 1 and April 21, 2025, Saudi Arabia […]
Misconceptions on Mpox that You Should Know (and Public Perception in Malaysia)
By Dr Durga Vettivel is a senior lecturer in family medicine at the School of Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Taylor’s University. Mpox, also known as monkeypox, is caused by a virus from the genus Orthopoxvirus, the same […]
Pandemic Research Alliance launched for virus-related research
World-renowned professors from six leading institutions in four countries have launched the Pandemic Research Alliance (PRA) to drive concerted research into respiratory viruses from animals to humans, improved surveillance, and new solutions to better manage the next pandemic. This is […]
Virus to kill cancer cells trialled in UK
A new type of cancer therapy that uses a common virus to infect and destroy harmful cells is showing big promise in early human trials, say UK scientists. One patient’s cancer vanished, while others saw their tumours shrink. The drug […]
Concern mounts over “unusual” monkeypox virus symptoms
Medical professionals in the UK are noticing that patients diagnosed with monkeypox are presenting with different symptoms from those seen in previous outbreaks including less fever and tiredness and more skin lesions in their genital and anal areas. This was […]
Desktop “air curtains” as an indirect virus barrier
Air curtains – artificially created streams of moving air – which are used to protect patients in operating rooms or to prevent the spread of contaminants, may be a solution for tight, closed spaces when social distancing is not possible. […]
COVID-19 virus can trigger persistent, self-damaging immune response
A Cedars-Sinai, California, research team has found infection with the virus that causes COVID-19 can stress the immune system so much to cause the production of autoantibodies that will attack the body’s own organs and tissues. The shocking discovery was […]
COVID-19 detection to be sped up with new Amazon initiative
To expedite disease testing during the COVID-19 pandemic tech giant Amazon has launched the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Diagnostic Development Initiative, which is expected to accelerate diagnostics research and development worldwide through the many cloud computing solutions provided, particularly in […]
US scientists design novel “trap” for COVID-19
Researchers at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) at the University of Chicago have come up with a novel way to trap SARS-CoV-2 viruses, the virus that causes COVID-19, within the body and then use the body’s own immune […]
Men more vulnerable to COVID-19 than women, affirms US study
Men, independent of age, are much more likely to contract COVID-19, suffer from severe complications, and die from the disease than women, according to new epidemiological observations. Led by Farhaan Vahidy from the Houston Methodist Research Institute, the study set […]
