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Nearly 1 in 10 new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are from the BA.2.86 variant, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Monday, nearly triple what the agency estimated the highly mutated variant's prevalence was two weeks…

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By Padraig Collins For Daily Mail Australia 09:44 26 Nov 2023, updated 10:37 26 Nov 2023 The implications of Australia's harsh Covid lockdowns during the…

By Alexa Lardieri U.S. Deputy Health Editor Dailymail.Com 16:05 25 Nov 2023, updated 16:12 25 Nov 2023 Bat coronavirus 1,000 miles from Wuhan closely related to…

SHANGHAI, Nov 24 (Reuters) - China called for vigilance on Friday as a surge of respiratory illness hit schools and hospitals and the World Health Organization, which has asked the government for disease data, said no unusual or novel…

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Early in the COVID-19 outbreak, some people dismissed the new respiratory virus as “like the flu.” It isn’t, of course; but for the purposes of vaccination, it would be nice if people acted that way. About 51% of Hawaii’s…

Their coronavirus infections had cleared up, but the patients were met with a grim reality: Scents that were once pleasant had suddenly become foul. Sautéed garlic and onions smelled like rotting garbage, and coffee was no longer…

“If people could see COVID in the air, it would make a lot more sense that what you need to do is clean the air in your house,” Abraar Karan, an infectious disease physician at Stanford University, told NPR in 2022. The basic idea:…

Siouxsie Wiles, a microbiologist at the University of Auckland, is suing her employer for failing to adequately address the harassment she received as a result of her public comments during the…