Tuberculosis vaccine might protect against COVID-19, new study concludes
This century-old vaccine could have a protective effect against COVID-19, these researchers claim.
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Half a year into the pandemic, there are still people who haven’t heard of it — and it’s bad for everyone
Even news of world-changing events can't reach some places.
What will the economy look like after the pandemic? Past crises suggest rising inequality
It's hard to say what the full economic effects of the pandemic will be, but past events can teach us ...
New coating could improve medical gear by making the coronavirus slide right off
The coating could make equipment safer and usable for longer.
Scientists call for wider use of cloth masks in an open letter
The letter urges businesses and the public to wear masks so we can stop the virus.
Coronavirus crisis hits clean energy jobs across the US
Half a million jobs in this sector have been lost in March and April.
Online learning is surging during the pandemic. But can it keep this momentum?
School shutting has moved learning to online almost overnight, but what will happen post-pandemic?
The pandemic is hitting lower-income American workers the most
Half of the low-income respondents said they feared they would lose their jobs, compared to less than 20% of higher-income ...
Deforestation and fires in the Amazon rainforest could bring about the next pandemic
Scientists make a dire warning. Again.
Reopening the US economy would cripple the economy
Just cut your own damn hair, Karen.
Health experts are calling Trump’s slashing of WHO funding “dangerous, politically-motivated”
I agree with that view.
Scientists warn healthcare systems could be overwhelmed by COVID-19 pandemic
A new report from the Lancet finds a decrease in rates of death in COVID-19 cases but warns that even ...
What’s a pandemic? The worldwide epidemic
It's the article we were hoping not to write.
A December 2019 study described the best way to fight a pandemic: wash your hands
You've probably heart it before, but here we go again: wash your hands, often and thoroughly.
New study shows how Zika might re-emerge and strike the United States
The US is certainly not safe from Zika.
Brazil says Zika epidemic is officially over
Although authorities are still on alert, the Zika epidemic seems to have backed off.
In 2014, the Ebola virus mutated to infect people more efficiently
Viruses are mutating and adapting to the human body.
Zika articles made open-source to accelerate research
Nature, the Lancet and many other medical publishers and researchers have announced that all Zika-related scientific articles will be published freely ...
Vaccine skeptical parents tend to cluster and threaten communities
More than 21 million hospitalizations and 732,000 deaths among children born in the last 20 years have been spared by ...
More than 23,000 Ebola Cases in 2014, According to Estimates
A Doctors Without Borders health worker in protective clothing holds a child suspected of having Ebola in Paynesville, Liberia. Image: ...
Ebola outbreak moving faster than we can control: WHO declares international emergency
Photo: wn.com As reported earlier, 2014 has seen the worst Ebola outbursts in history. Recent escalations of the outbreaks and ...
Predicting pandemic outbreaks by looking at air traffic
Airport map. (c) Dirk Brockmann The world is getting smaller by the day, as fixed geographical distances become easier and ...
H5N1 controversial paper shows that bird flu is only a genetic mutation away from mammal flu
At the end of last year, controversy sparked among the medical scientific community when an unprecedented event occurred. Two separate and independent ...
The Bubonic Plague came from China
The bubonic plague, known to history as The Black Death or simply The Plague, was responsible for marking one of ...
The swine flu – now a pademic
The swine influenza is now, officially, the 4th flu pandemic in the last 100 years. Margaret Chan, the director-general of ...
