The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Saturday released a new guideline stating that people with internal health conditions can get the coronavirus vaccine. Guidance Explains that “Adults of any age with certain underlying medical conditions have an increased risk of developing a serious illness from the virus …
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Nina Fam was bored, weak and heavy drug. The first person to transmit the Ebola virus on American soil, she was taken by ambulance to the National Institutes of Health, where she was treated in the safest room of the country’s most prestigious medical facility. Ms. Pham did not know …
Read More »Timothy Ray Brown, the first person to treat HIV, dies at 54
Timothy Ray Brown, the so-called “Berlin patient” and the first person to recover from HIV infection, has died at the age of 54. It was recently revealed that he was temporarily ill from a recurrence of leukemia last year. News of his death was announced on Facebook by his partner, …
Read More »Super rare ‘elite controllers’ can completely overcome HIV without medication
More than ten years ago, Bruce Walker was working at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) when he was asked to see a patient who was claimed to be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but who was OK , despite the fact that he never took medication. “Absolutely,” recalls Walker, …
Read More »The Hindu explains | Is SARS-CoV-2 a latent virus that can reappear?
The story so far: Since cases of ‘reinfection’ emerged in early January, people who had tested negative for the COVID-19 test again after a while, the question of the latency of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been the subject of heated debate . The first of these cases arose in the …
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