Monkeypox: Researchers find Mpox contagious 4 days before symptoms

After examining samples from “high-risk contacts”, the ITM concludes that people infected with the virus can transmit it even before showing symptoms. “This is an important explanation for the spread of the virus,” the institute says. In Belgium and the rest of Europe, the monkeypox epidemic is nevertheless on the decline. “Since the first case … Read more

Virginia Guadalupe García Rubio, UAEMéx researcher, seeks to improve sheep production in the Amecameca region

To contribute to the reduction of parasitic diseases in sheep, the researcher Virginia Guadalupe García Rubio, from the Amecameca University Center of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEMéx), carries out the project “Characterization of edible mushrooms cultivated in the Amecameca region to promote the use of its nutraceutical properties and in vitro … Read more

Coronavirus: three years later, should we prepare for a next pandemic?

Among the crucial tools to avoid the emergence of a new pandemic like that of Covid are tests, which help to curb the spread of a disease. Other devices: the identification of viruses or bacteria that could cause the next pandemic, the discovery of vaccines or emergency treatments, the production and distribution of these products, … Read more

After three years of Covid-19, preparing for the next pandemic

AFP, published on Friday, December 16, 2022 at 05:27 Three years ago, the first case of Covid-19 was identified in China, the starting point of a pandemic with unprecedented consequences. How to prevent history from repeating itself? The question mobilizes researchers and States but funding is insufficient and the answers uncertain. “We are not doing … Read more

Pandemic stress is aging teenage brains faster

The COVID-19 pandemic has not only resulted in poorer mental health in adolescents, but also in the physical aging of their brains. That’s according to new research from a team at Stanford University in the United States, published on Thursday in the Journal of Biological Psychiatry published: Global Open Science. Always more research results show … Read more

“Long Covid remains the elephant in the room”

OeAW immunologist Andreas Bergthaler explains what signs point to an imminent end to the corona pandemic and why high-risk patients are still unable to take a deep breath. The pandemic as we have known it for almost three years now could soon come to an end. Andreas Bergthaler from the Medical University of Vienna and … Read more