How Effective Are Cloth Masks Against Coronavirus? [Video]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is recommending that the general public wear cloth face masks to help decrease everyone’s chances of getting COVID-19. So…
Infectious Diseases
Deadly Virus Turns Honey Bees Into Trojan Horses, Rapidly Spreading the Infection to Healthy Hives
Honey bees that guard hive entrances are twice as likely to allow in trespassers from other hives if the intruders are infected with the Israeli…
Hunt for an Effective Treatment for COVID-19 Leads to Llamas & Their Special Antibodies
The hunt for an effective treatment for COVID-19 has led one team of researchers to find an improbable ally for their work: a llama named…
New Model to Track COVID-19’s Spread – Very Accurately Forecasts the Timing, Intensity and Geographic Distribution of Outbreak
Yale University researchers and colleagues in Hong Kong and China have developed an approach for rapidly tracking population flows that could help policymakers worldwide more…
New Clues on How to Treat COVID-19 From T Cell Counts and Cytokine Storms
Inflammatory immune response can cause T cells to become depleted, affecting patient outcomes in coronavirus cases and leaving them prone to secondary infection. Cytokine storms…
Key Insights on How Coronavirus Spreads From Chinese Megacity of Shenzhen
Analysis shows how extensive testing and contact tracing stopped outbreak in South Chinese megacity. The extensive use of epidemiological surveillance, isolation of infected patients, and…
Study Unveils COVID-19 Transmission Patterns and Safety-Conscious Reopening Plans
With the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in lockdowns in different parts of the world, from the US to many European nations, there have been intense debates…
Making Sense of the Viral Multiverse: Situating Coronaviruses Within Mind-Bendingly Vast Virosphere
In November of 2019—likely, even earlier—a tiny entity measuring just a few hundred billionths of a meter in diameter began to tear apart human society…
Syphilis Alters Its Genetics to Evade the Immune System
By shuffling DNA in and out of one gene, syphilis stays a step ahead of the immune system to resist eradication. The bacterium that causes…