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How will COVID-19 end? Experts look to influenza, HIV, Zika epidemics for clues
The COVID-19 global pandemic has waxed and waned differently in different parts of the world. But in the United States, at least, there is reason to believe the end is near.
World Heart Day 2021: Why COVID-19 survivors are returning to hospitals with reduced heart functions
After their recovery from COVID-19 many patients have reportedly rushed back to hospitals where they complained about reduced heart functions, heart attacks and strokes
From gargling with whiskey to having beef extract: How the world dealt with Spanish flu pandemic
Modern day technology has helped researchers track which interventions work well and which ones don’t, a privilege unavailable in 1918
Moderna has begun human trials for an mRNA vaccine that targets multiple influenza strains
The company intends to recruit 180 adults in the United States for the Phase 1/2 portion of the trial to evaluate the safety and strength of immune response to the shot, called mRNA-1010.
Flu vaccination can protect adults and kids from influenza, lower respiratory disease burden
Co-infection by the influenza virus for people with respiratory diseases like asthma and COPD can end badly – vaccines can help.
Vaccine to Vaccination: Lessons from Spanish Flu pandemic in dealing with COVID-19 crisis
There may be some lessons and inspiration that we and our scientific community can draw from the horrors of the Spanish Flu
Reading Mrs Dalloway: How Virginia Woolf wrote illness and isolation into the national story of post war Britain
Mrs Dalloway is a text that shows how memory and mourning work to uphold the values of the British Empire. Its attention on how emotions circulate between people allows us to understand how national structures of feeling are created through newspapers and through the orchestration of symbolic identifications.
Chinmay Tumbe on his new book that investigates major pandemics, and how they influenced India, the world
In 'The Age of Pandemics', Tumbe specifically focuses on the period between 1817 to 1920, which witnessed nearly five percent of the mid-point global population —or 70 million people — being wiped out by pandemics.
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New immunotherapy for influenza virus infections may also help fight HIV and COVID-19, study suggests
Some studies also indicate that flu shots or vaccines can offer some protection against COVID-19
Lupin launches antiviral drug Favipiravir under the name Covihalt to treat mild to moderate COVID-19 infection
The Covihalt tablet will be available in 200 mg tablets in a strip of 10 and will cost Rs 49 per tablet in India.
Sunpharma launches Favipiravir tablet Fluguard to treat mild to moderate COVID-19 infections at Rs 35 per pill
Favipiravir is an antiviral drug that was originally made to treat influenza in Japan under the brand name Avigan.
New virus strain found in pigs in China has the potential to become a pandemic however there is no imminent risk
The study said pigs are important “mixing vessels” for the influenza virus and has asked that this potential problem be kept under surveillance.
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COVID-19 may last for 18-24 months and require repeated lockdown measures, says new study
Researchers studied the epidemiology of COVID-19 and the history of past influenza pandemics to model 3 potential scenarios that the pandemic might take.
Anti-parasitic drug can kill the growth of coronavirus in cells within 48 hours finds new study
Ivermectin has shown to be effective in-vitro against a broad range of viruses including HIV, Dengue, Influenza and Zika virus.
Coronavirus may kill 100,000 to 240,000 in the US despite social distancing measures, say officials
Donald Trump displayed none of the carefree dismissiveness that characterised his reaction to the coronavirus in February and early March, when he repeatedly said that “we have it totally under control” and that “it’s going to be just fine.”
Infected with COVID-19, but feeling fine: How people are unwittingly spreading the coronavirus across the world
As many as 25 percent of people infected with the coronavirus may not show symptoms, the director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention warns — a startlingly high number that complicates efforts to predict the pandemic’s course and strategies to mitigate its spread
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Swine flu is back: Here's how you can prevent this deadly disease
As per data provided by NCDC, a total of 884 cases had been recorded this year with 14 resulting in death, as of 16th February.
Coronavirus is sparing children and largely affecting the ill and aged — infection experts explain why
Experts have theorised that younger people are being infected, too, but developing a relatively milder infection.
Wuhan coronavirus looks increasingly like a pandemic, say world's top infectious disease experts
A pandemic — an ongoing epidemic on two or more continents — may well have global consequences, despite the extraordinary travel restrictions and quarantines now imposed by China and other countries, including the United States
Google's co-founder Larry Page is on a quiet mission to bring the world a universal flu vaccine — here's why
Creating a universal flu vaccine would effectively cure a disease that appears to be on the rise and diversifying with time.