Monkeypox & Corona Updates

Though the Covid-19 pandemic is now slowing down across the country, a new sub-variant of the Omicron variant, which has been responsible for the surge in the virus cases in Singapore recently, has been detected in parts of India. A new…
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Most patients with COVID-19 who have lingering symptoms at 12 months are likely to still have symptoms at 18 months, new data suggest. The findings are drawn from a large study of 33,281 people in Scotland who tested positive for the…
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AstraZeneca Plc’s nasal spray vaccine failed to elicit a strong immune response to Covid-19 in an early trial, a blow to the UK drug giant’s ambitions for developing an alternative approach to preventing the disease. The spray vaccine…
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A new COVID-19 wave appears to be brewing in Europe as cooler weather arrives, with public health experts warning that vaccine fatigue and confusion over types of available vaccines will likely limit booster uptake. Omicron subvariants…
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In a recent development, researchers created a new medication that can turn the COVID-19 that causes SARS-CoV-2 against itself and stop the deadly virus from infecting people. Researchers claim that a novel medication known as NMT5 is…
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Monkeypox, the virus that is rapidly spreading across the globe, has created much panic among people and emergency measures have been initiated to control its outbreak. While, monkeypox is not known to be a severe and serious infection, a…
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Delhi on Friday reported its eighth monkeypox case after a Nigerian woman tested positive for the viral infection. The patient is a 30-year-old woman. The total number of monkeypox infections in India now stands at 13. According to a PTI…
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The World Health Organisation (WHO), revising treatment guidelines for Covid-19, has strongly advised against the use of two antibody drugs - sotrovimab and casirivimab-imdevimab. WHO said that these drugs are likely to be ineffective…
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A second US death was linked to monkeypox on Tuesday as health authorities published a study describing how two previously healthy young men experienced inflammation of the brain and spinal cord as a result of the virus. There have been…
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A team of US scientists has developed a single-dose, intranasal treatment that not only reduces symptoms of multiple Covid variants but also shedding of the virus. In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of…
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