When a virus invades the body, it leaves fingerprints behind. A research tool known as VirScan can detect this evidence – from just a single drop of blood – and identify the viruses that have...
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews
Health officials in India are reporting the fourth death in 2020 from Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), or monkey fever, in Shivamogga district in Karnataka state.
The...
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Officials with Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) in Karachi are reporting two cases of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in Sindh province in a week.
The...
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Today, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the State is launching an online portal that will help connect hospitals and healthcare facilities across the state...
Clinical-stage biotechnology company, Vaxart today it had produced five COVID-19 vaccine candidates for testing in its preclinical models. Each of the COVID-19 vaccine constructs is based on a different...
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews
On Monday, The Philadelphia Department of Public Health announced 182 additional cases of COVID-19 novel coronavirus in the city. That brings the number of confirmed...
As the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic grips the US, a new free app is helping to track the onset and progression of symptoms of millions across the nation. The app will help identify those at risk sooner,...
Houston Methodist received FDA approval Saturday to become the first academic medical center in the nation to transfuse donated plasma from a recovered COVID-19 patient into a critically ill patient....
Johnson & Johnson today announced the selection of a lead COVID-19 vaccine candidate from constructs it has been working on since January 2020.
They expect to initiate human clinical studies at...
Biotechnology company advancing transformative antibody drugs for infectious diseases, transplant rejection and checkpoint resistant cancers, GigaGen, announced today it has been developing a recombinant...
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