Boston University is being criticized for creating a new COVID strain that showed an 80 percent kill rate in mice. Experts said the researchers were “playing with fire” by risking the outbreak of a lab-made pandemic. The NIH, meanwhile, has said it was unaware of the research, and took steps to distance itself from the…
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November 1, 2022
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EU Regulator Backs Wider Use of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Therapy
September 16, 2022
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LONDON—Europe’s medicines regulator has backed using AstraZeneca’s preventative COVID-19 therapy as a treatment for the disease and also endorsed another medicine as preventative option for another common virus. The regulator’s recommendations are usually followed by the European Commission when it takes a final decision on drug approvals. AstraZeneca said on Friday the European Medicines Agency…
Coating Keeps Killing Viruses and Bacteria for Months
There may soon be a new weapon in our centuries-old battle against germs: the first durable coating that can quickly kill bacteria and viruses and keep on killing them for months at a time. As reported in the journal Matter, the coating proved deadly to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), E. coli, MRSA, and a variety of other…
Illinois Resident Tests Positive for Tick-Borne Heartland Virus
August 24, 2022
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An older person who lives in rural Jackson County has become the third individual to test positive for the tick-borne Heartland virus in Illinois since 2018. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) said in a press release on Aug. 23 that the older individual had “recently” tested positive for the virus, for which there is…
New Virus Breakout Raises Question of Bioterrorism
Recently, the discovery of “Langya virus” in Shandong and Henan provinces of China has quickly attracted the attention of medical experts around the world. The virus is a type of zoonotic henipavirus and 35 people have been identified to be infected with this Langya virus since 2019 in these two provinces in China. Notably, this…
Growing Evidence Indicates Sex Between Men is Fueling Monkeypox
Growing scientific evidence suggests that Monkeypox is being spread via sexual intercourse between men, as opposed to skin-to-skin contact as stated by public health officials. According to a report by NBC News, a string of scientific studies and reports from health authorities across the globe in recent weeks indicate that the narrative of public health experts may…
FBI Raids Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Home; New Virus Detected in China Transmitted From Animals to Humans | NTD Good Morning
The FBI raids Trump’s home searching for missing White House Documents. The former President says it’s “a weaponization of the Justice system” and “an attack by radical left Democrats who don’t want him to run for President in 2024. The father and son found guilty of hate crimes and the murder of Ahmaud Arbery were…
Vaccines Are Bringing Back a Nearly Eradicated Deadly Virus
August 8, 2022
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Many people thought that the poliovirus was extinct across the majority of the world, as the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared many continents polio-free. So this may come as a surprise, but in fact, polio cases have been on the rise globally since 2016, and this resurgent outbreak is related to the use of…
Monkeypox Declared Public Health Emergency in New York City
The New York City Department of Health declared monkeypox a public health emergency over the weekend as Gov. Kathy Hochul similarly issued a state of disaster declaration over the virus. With the declaration over the weekend, New York City is now the second U.S. city after San Francisco to issue such an order for the…
Ghana Confirms Its First Outbreak of Highly Infectious Marburg Virus
DAKAR—Ghana has officially confirmed two cases of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, its health service said on Sunday, after two people who later died tested positive for the virus earlier this month. Tests conducted in Ghana came back positive on July 10, but the results had to be verified by…
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