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Amid protests, China says fight against Covid 'will be successful'
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian's statement comes a day after protests erupted in Shanghai against China's 'Zero Covid' policy to contain the virus.
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Researchers discover the cause behind skin inflammation
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
UV light is very high in energy. When it hits the skin, it can therefore damage important cellular molecules, sparking inflammation as a common consequence. The skin serves as a crucial barrier against viruses and environmental stimuli because it is the biggest organ in the human body. The r
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Majority of people with prolonged Covid endure stigma, discrimination: Stu
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
According to a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE, the majority of persons living with Long Covid suffer some type of stigma directly related to their condition.
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WHO looking to rename monkeypox to 'MPOX': Report
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The World Health Organization (WHO) is looking to rename monkeypox to "MPOX" to destigmatize the virus, according to a US newspaper report.
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COVID-19 vaccination provides significant protection against reinfection:
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
According to a study, individuals who have already been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, still benefit from a vaccination as well, with 60% to 94% protection against reinfection, depending on the variation.
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WHO to identify pathogens that could cause future outbreaks, pandemics
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
In a statement, the WHO said that starting with a meeting held last Friday, November 18, WHO is convening over 300 scientists who will consider the evidence on over 25 virus families and bacteria, as well as "Disease X."
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Maintaining "sweet spot" indoor humidity levels may reduce COVID-19 transm
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Maintaining an indoor relative humidity between 40 and 60 percent is associated with relatively lower rates of Covid-19 infections and deaths, while indoor conditions outside this range are associated with worse Covid-19 outcomes.
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Researchers discover new biomarker for severe Covid 19
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Patients with acute COVID-19 infection have higher amounts of the cytokine IL-26 in their blood, according to researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet. Furthermore, high IL-26 levels are associated with an increased inflammatory response, which indicates severe cases of the disease. The
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Anupam Kher bumps into Anushka-Virat at airport; pens warm note for power
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Anupam Kher took to Instagram to share a photo with Virat and Anushka and wrote, "I was very happy to meet Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma at the airport lounge! Their warmth was beautifully infectious! Jai Ho to them!" They bumped into Anupam Kher at Mumbai airport.
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Researchers find how HIV evades immunity, drugs
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers at Duke Health have reported that an immune response that likely evolved to help fight infections appears to be the mechanism that drives human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) into a latent state, lurking in cells only to erupt anew.
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Study hints at why older people are more susceptible to the flu
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Though the COVID-19 pandemic provided a brief respite, influenza virus is back in circulation and, as usual, poses a special danger to people over the age of 65. But why are older people more susceptible to the flu? New research from the U-M Medical School, published in Nature Communications
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Got a mouth ulcer? It might be monkeypox, says rsearch
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
German research links the presence of an ulcer in a patient's mouth to the presence of the deadly monkeypox virus.
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