It followed the 122 strong crew of a fishing boat working in the Pacific off the coast of Seattle, Washington. All were tested for both antibodies and the virus before and after. An outbreak occurred on the ship and 104 people were infected – an attack rate of 85 percent. …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that it was concerned that the new spread of coronavirus was being driven out by people in their 20s, 30s and 40s, many of whom were unaware they were infected, a danger to vulnerable groups. PHILO PHOTO: People queue for …
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The head of the Russian Institute behind a new COVID-19 vaccine claims that Western research institutes are trying to polish their scientists. Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya Institute, claimed that attempts to target veteran researchers who developed something like the world’s first vaccine against coronavirus would fail. “Our researchers …
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – An increasingly common mutation of the new coronavirus found in Europe, North America and parts of Asia may be more infectious, but appears less deadly, according to a prominent doctor of infectious diseases. PHILO PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which was …
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Aug 17 (Reuters) – US drug developer Novavax Inc said on Monday that it is launching a mid-term study of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine in South Africa as the country experiences an increase in coronavirus cases. The Phase 2b trial of NVX-CoV2373 will be performed on approximately 2,665 healthy adults …
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