Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras have developed an online open-source database on coronaviruses’ neutralising antibodies. The database “Ab-CoV” has detailed information about all COVID-related antibodies identified so far, including the source of each antibody, the viral proteins and strains they recognise. Ab-CoV database includes 1,780 coronavirus-related antibodies and can help develop drugs … Read more
Jiang Yanyong became a national hero after revealing Beijing was covering up the scale of the virus. Source link
The COVID pandemic is progressing and has impacted human health, economy, and development, The United Nations had linked national security with pandemics. (Representational image: IE) By Dr K Madan Gopal, The emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases like plague, SARS, H1N1, avian influenza, Ebola, and ZIKA, and most recently the outbreak of COVID-19 viruses has … Read more
TUESDAY, Feb. 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Researchers have identified more than 140,000 viruses that live in the human gut, including half that were previously unknown. The number and variety of viruses found in more than 28,000 gut microbiome samples gathered from different parts of the world are surprisingly high, according to the study … Read more
It’s leveraging expertise to respond more quickly to outbreaks by “pivoting to work together,” said Jean Patterson, lead program officer for the CREID network. Researchers can use a prototype pathogen approach to study how and where infectious diseases emerge from wildlife to make the leap into people. Reporting from 10 centers in the US … Read more
The report suggested that these pandemic risks need to be lowered and monitored. With a pandemic as massive as the Coronavirus outbreak, scientists/ researchers have noted that there will be more pandemics and they will emerge out often. The future pandemics are also expected to spread more rapidly, kill more people than COVID-19 did and … Read more
This graph can tell you a lot about your future. Each bar shows how many new infectious diseases emerged in a year. In 1944, there was one. In ’48, three. We have no immunity to new pathogens. Each disease on this list posed a new pandemic threat. It was around 1960 when the number began … Read more