When COVID-19 took the world by storm, people were scared to step outside their homes. It was a time of chaos and confusion. While the pandemic has appeared to subside, an emerging concern has surfaced: a condition known as long…
Scientists are now saying that the quickest and most effective method for combatting the coronavirus during the outbreak is to repurpose drugs for pre-existing conditions or a mixture of them instead of coming up with an antiviral medication from scratch.…
The origin of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is sweeping the science realm as researchers race for a vaccine. On the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data database, scientists are publicly sharing the full sequences of the virus. Scientists…
Here’s the update on coronavirus: a new strain called the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), emerged in December of 2019 in China, and it’s thought to have come from an animal trade market in Wuhan City, Hubei Province in China. The…
Out of the 1.6 million reported patients with infectious diseases, almost half are suffering from drug-resistant strains. Drug-resistant tuberculosis is one of these, and the government confirmed just a week ago an exposed patient in San Bernardino County, California. This…
No matter what the risks are of complications stemming from flu vaccines, avoiding the vaccine itself is riskier. In 2018 alone, the United States experienced its deadliest influenza outbreak – 80,000 deaths, 180 of which were children. In addition, 900,000…
