It doesn’t take long for orburn coronavirus particles to get into the room. Initially, only those sitting next to an infected speaker are at greater risk, but as the meeting or class progresses, smaller aerosols spread. However, this does not mean that everyone faces the same level of risk. As …
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Once a person becomes ill with coronavirus there is no guarantee that they will not contract it again, new research suggests. While SARS-Cavi-2 is the coronavirus that is the focus of the current world, there are many others we have known for decades who are not only known to infect …
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The teenage boy’s family says he is a Brain-eating amoeba After a vacation at a North Florida campground last month, reports from local TV station WJXT. Tenor Lake Wall, a 13-year-old from Palatka, Florida, was on vacation, including a water park and a lake, before his parents told him he …
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For their own self-preservation, infected bacteria often try their best to stay out of the immune system in our bodies – and scientists have found a surprising and previously undiscovered way to do this. What happens is that the bacteria release toxins to disarm the mitochondria in immune cells, those …
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As autumn arrives quickly, many are wondering whether the race for a vaccine will bear fruit as early as January 2021. I am a physician-scientist and specialist in infectious diseases at the University of Virginia, where I care for and examine patients for COVID-19. I am sometimes asked how I …
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