It could help prevent Long COVID

Background Despite the plethora of efficacious vaccines to the initial Wuhan strain of SARS-CoV-2, these do not induce robust mucosal immunity, offering limited protection against breakthrough...

Medical emergencies prompted plane to return to gate

Students account for a higher proportion of infected individuals who cause onward transmission than the overall public, according to an Italian study.

It showed up in Stanford’s Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network, which is the only group publishing data on monkeypox in US wastewater.

COVID Meetups has amassed almost 7,000 members across 63 countries.

The research of Nathalie Grandvaux's team, in collaboration with other researchers, sheds light on the scientific field of airborne transmission of the COVID-19 virus.

Countries with female leaders recorded 40% fewer COVID-19 deaths than nations governed by men, according to University of Queensland research.

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"If it was something else sending 600 kids to the hospital in eight months, wouldn’t we be worried?"

A frequently repeated premise is that viruses evolve to become less pathogenic. This appears also to be true for SARS-CoV-2, although the increased level of immunity in human populations makes it...

Masking guidelines at McGill University Health Centre have returned due to an 'important rise in the number of respiratory infections including COVID-19.'

Researchers found that severe turbulence had increased 55% between 1979 and 2020 on a typically busy North Atlantic route.

Between COVID-19, RSV and the flu, many of us have spent at least a few days in bed this winter. According to a new report from CIBC, work absences due to illness are up 40 per cent compared to...

‘Rare’ blanket measure may be used at primary schools after at least nine UK deaths from bacterial infection

‘We understand that it’s a risk ... but we want to go on holiday’ one easyJet passenger says

Spraying a cow with pesticides, health workers target blood-sucking ticks at the heart of Iraq's worst detected outbreak of a fever that causes people to bleed to death.

A new worry.

Gatherings over Easter long weekend expected to cause further increase in infections, with Victoria already 60% up in past fortnight

Montreal-based biopharmaceutical company PnuVax and Ontario-based drug manufacturer Biolyse Pharma say they have signed an agreement to mass produce a monkeypox vaccine.

Les recours sont restreints pour les employés forcés de le retirer au travail.

Les absences liées à la COVID-19 ont recommencé à grimper dans les écoles. Mardi, il y avait un peu plus de 24 000 élèves absents pour cette raison, une hausse de 75 % par rapport à la semaine...

"The sicknesses just took over her body," Terry Ma said, speaking about his seven-year-old daughter who is undergoing an amputation today. 

In the second year of the pandemic, hospitalizations due to COVID-19 skyrocketed more than 600 per cent among children aged 0-4 compared to the previous year, according to new data from the Canadian...

The impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection during pregnancy on the developing fetal brain is poorly understood. Other antenatal infections such as influenza...

Plusieurs experts se demandent pourquoi cet élément fait si peu partie du discours des autorités.

An attenuated SARS-CoV-2 virus with modified viral transcriptional regulatory sequences and deletion of open-reading frames 3, 6, 7 and 8 (∆3678) was previously reported to protect hamsters from...

Three years after the pandemic began, COVID-19 still has its grip on America’s workforce.

Our study found a robust association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and MHC and recommends that healthcare authorities be prepared to deal with the high burden of MHC among post-acute COVID-19 patients.

More than 1 million kids were infected with COVID-19 in the United States last week, the American Academy for Pediatrics reported Tuesday

Demands grow for government science chiefs to reveal evidence backing move to lift last protective measures

An expert says more needs to be done to teach students how to critically interpret statistics like those published during the pandemic.

The monoclonal antibody sotrovimab is no longer authorized by the FDA to treat COVID-19 in certain U.S. regions with high frequency of the omicron BA.2 subvariant. In a statement released March 25,...

Objective To characterize the risk of persistent and new clinical sequelae in adults aged ≥65 years after the acute phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Design Retrospective cohort study. Setting UnitedH...

Background This study examined neuropathological findings of patients who died following hospitalization in an intensive care unit with SARS-CoV-2. Methods Data originate from 20 decedents who...

Two children in Montreal have died due to complications with Strep A infection as cases of the illness are on the rise, the city's public health department said Friday.