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Health officials reported Monday that a child whose age and place of birth was not disclosed is the first person this season to be diagnosed with West Nile virus in Orange County. The child has recovered, a press release from the Orange County Health Care Agency said. The child was …

Researchers have found their evidence based on oral disinfectant solutions based on studies based at the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany found that high levels of coronavirus exist within the upper respiratory tract, including the mouth and throat. It is also possible that the oral and pharyngeal cavities act as …

The University of Notre Dame, in consultation with LabCorp, conducted nearly 12,000 pre-matriculation COVID-19 tests of students before starting classes on campus today, with less than one-third of 1 percent positive tests. The 11,836 included some 8,600 students, and other students for graduate and vocational schools. Of the total, 33 …

The seven-year-old Georgian boy who became the youngest person in the state to die from coronavirus drowned in a bathing suit after suffering a seizure caused by his high fever, found an autopsy. The child, who was not named, is thought to have been given COVID-19 after attending a church …

inspired by a unique type of antibody-fighting infection found in llamas, alpacas, and other camelids, a research team at the University of California, San Francisco, has synthesized a molecule that they say is one of the most powerful anti-coronavirus- compounds that have been tested in a laboratory to date. Named …