Tag: flu

China Quarantines Cash to Sanitize Old Bank Notes From Coronavirus

Today China announced it was taking unusual new steps to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. It’s blocking the transfer of old bank notes between provinces and cities affected by the outbreak, according to the deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China — and that’s just the beginning. Bloomberg reports:
The central bank also ramped up measures to sanitize old…

WHO Has Finally Named the New Coronavirus

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ScienceAlert: The UN health agency on Tuesday announced that “COVID-19” will be the official name of the deadly virus from China, saying the disease represented a “very grave threat” for the world but there was a “realistic chance” of stopping it. “We now have a name for the disease and it’s COVID-19,” World Health…

Cocktail of Flu, HIV Drugs Appears to Help Fight Coronavirus: Thai Doctors

An anonymous reader quotes Reuters:
Thai doctors have seen success in treating severe cases of the new coronavirus with combination of medications for flu and HIV, with initial results showing vast improvement 48 hours after applying the treatment, they said on Sunday… “This is not the cure, but the patientâ(TM)s condition has vastly improved. From testing positive for 10 days under our…

An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus

An anonymous reader shares a report: On January 9, the World Health Organization notified the public of a flu-like outbreak in China: a cluster of pneumonia cases had been reported in Wuhan, possibly from vendors’ exposure to live animals at the Huanan Seafood Market. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had gotten the word out a few days earlier,…

Were snakes the source of China’s coronavirus outbreak?

A report suggests that snakes – the Chinese krait and the Chinese cobra – might have been the original source of the coronavirus that’s triggered an outbreak of deadly infectious respiratory illnesses in China this year. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/snakes-original-source-china-coronavirus-outbreak…

CRISPR-edited chickens made resistant to a common virus

CRISPR gene editing has created chickens that resist a common virus. It may be possible to use the same technique to make poultry resistant to bird flu too Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2230617-crispr-edited-chickens-made-resistant-to-a-common-virus/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…