WHO Overturns Dogma on Airborne Disease Spread. The CDC Might Not Act on It.
The World Health Organization has issued a report that transforms how the world understands respiratory infections like COVID-19, influenza, and measles.
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WHO Overturns Dogma on Airborne Disease Spread. The CDC Might Not Act on It.
The World Health Organization has issued a report that transforms how the world understands respiratory infections like COVID-19, influenza, and measles.
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WHO Updates Terminology for Airborne Pathogens
The report introduces the term “infectious respiratory particles” and advocates for moving away from the dichotomy of the previously used terms “aerosols” and “droplets.”
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Omicron More Transmissible But Less Severe
The latest numbers show that new daily COVID-19 hospitalizations and excess deaths have been lower than the rate of increase in new COVID-19 cases, suggesting that the variant may cause less severe illness.
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Boston University Researchers Shed Light on How COVID Causes Fatal Lung Inflammation
Scientists at Boston University have uncovered that the novel coronavirus suppresses lung cells’ ability to call in the help of the immune system and activates an inflammatory pathway.
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New Study Looks at How Epidemics Spread Before and After Vaccine Introduction
A team of researchers modeled measles dynamics based on over 40 years of data collected in England and Wales and recently published their results in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
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Coronavirus Survives 3 Hours in Aerosols, 2-3 Days on Plastic/Steel
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 remained viable for up to 3 hours in aerosols, 4 hours on copper, 24 hours on cardboard, two days on plastic, and three days on stainless steel.
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Coronavirus Infections Exceed SARS, Continue to Spread Internationally
Cases of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus have now been reported in 17 countries, including the first confirmed cases in United Arab Emirates, Finland and Sri Lanka.
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Wuhan Coronavirus Genetically Similar to SARS
Coronavirus 2019-nCoV is genetically similar to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) variant, according to Purdue University scientists.
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US Airports Begin Screening for Deadly China Coronavirus
Health officials will screen passengers for the new virus at San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles airports.
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Cause of China’s Mysterious Pneumonia Outbreak Remains Unknown
The cause of several pneumonia cases in the Chinese city of Wuhan remains a mystery, as the number of infected people continues to grow, health authorities reported.
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SARS Fears in China 18 Years After Original Outbreak
A mysterious illness in parts of China has triggered fears of another outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the infectious disease that killed over 700 people in 2002-03.
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Scientists Investigate Extent of Severe Respiratory Infection in Malawi
University of Liverpool scientists have been awarded a grant to study severe acute respiratory infection in adults and children in Malawi.
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The Year in Pathogens
According to an article in The Scientist magazine, several high profile pathogens dominated the medical news landscape in 2014.
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University Of Maryland Researchers ID Drugs To Fight MERS Outbreaks
A team led by a University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researcher has identified a number of existing drugs that could be “repurposed” to fight outbreaks of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and SARS.
Read More125 Years of Contagious Diseases Data Cataloged on Open-Access Database
The website provides fee access to newly digitized and integrated weekly data from the United States nationally notifiable disease surveillance data. The records span from 1888 to 2013.
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Researchers Discover MERS has a 65% Fatality Rate
John Hopkins researchers report that the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has a fatality rate eight times greater than the SARS outbreak of 2003.
Read MoreSARS Virus Yields Its Secrets
The SARS coronavirus that sparked a global panic three years ago uses a key coat protein, called S2, to gain entry into human host cells.
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Lessons from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Principles of infection control and ventilator management taken from the SARS epidemic may serve during future viral outbreaks
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SARS: What We’ve Learned So Far
Six months into the SARS epidemic, scientists unravelling the microbiology, clinical manifestations, and containment of severe acute respiratory syndrome. No specific treatment recommendations can yet be made.
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