Respiratory Disease

Co-infection: What happens when two different respiratory viruses infect the same cell, at the same time

The new “chimeric” virus particles had proteins of both viruses on their surface and some even contained genes from the other.

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.

World TB Day: Due to COVID-19, diagnosis, treatment of tuberculosis has fallen drastically

Statistics from the nine highest incidence countries showed TB diagnosis and treatment declined by a total of one million people.

World TB Day: Shorter treatment plans work when long courses fall through

Without treatment, five percent to 10 percent of people with TB infection will develop active TB.

Smoking socially causes more harm than you may think: Its dangers and some ways to quit

The new study suggests that social smokers who smoke less than 10 cigarettes per day are not much better off than heavy smokers

Know the enemy: Health experts think understanding the Coronavirus will help us defeat it

The coronavirus is invisible, but seemingly everywhere, requires close contact to spread, but reached around the globe faster than any pandemic in history.

Disrupted health service in low-middle income countries might lead to increase in HIV, TB, malaria related deaths due to COVID-19 pandemic

Maintaining access to ART for HIV, diagnosis and treatment for TB and distribution of insecticide-treated nets to prevent malaria could mitigate the broader health impact of the virus.

Coronavirus Outbreak: What is contact tracing? How does it help in curbing COVID-19 cases?

The focus of contact tracing is to find close contacts or people who were within two metres of the infected person for at least 10 minutes or so.

WHO chief says there is no return to normalcy in the future, too many countries are heading in the wrong direction with Coronavirus

The WHO said that government and individual responses should depend on local virus conditions - namely, whether there is community spread or no.

Russia's COVID-19 vaccine successfully completes first phase of human clinical trials

The vaccine is being developed by the Gamaleya Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology along with the Russian Defence Ministry.