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New research defines specific genomic changes associated with the transmissibility of the monkeypox virus

Mount Sinai scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII) in Madrid, Spain, have located and…

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Food & Drink

Patrons of New York restaurant potentially exposed to hepatitis A virus

People who ate at the Main Deck restaurant in Penn Yan, NY, between March 27 and April 12 were potentially…

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Food & Drink

2nd human Avian influenza virus infection reported in the U.S. – Risk remains low

A second person in the United States has tested positive for the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)  virus. It was …

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How the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus enters our cells

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, in collaboration with JLP Health and others, have identified how the tick-borne Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus…

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New material neutralizes 96-percent of virus cells using nanospikes

Researchers at Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) have combined brute force with high tech manufacturing to create a…

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New testing approach improves detection of rare but emerging Powassan virus spread by deer ticks

Researchers at the New England Regional Center of Vector-Borne Diseases at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have come up with…

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Gene-edited pigs immune to deadly virus could arrive on farms by next year

US farmers are closer than ever to raising genetically edited pigs immune to one of the animal’s deadliest diseases. But…

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First Alaskapox death reported: What you should know about the virus

Health officials in Alaska reported the first known fatality from an uncommon virus known as Alaskapox. An elderly man who…

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Politics

How an ancient virus made our brains complex

An ancient viral infection may have given animals the tools to become fast, coordinated and smart, a new study has…

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Double risk of dementia after mouth ulcer virus

People who have had the herpes virus at some point in their lives are twice as likely to develop dementia…

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