A year after COVID-19's arrival, India's active cases fall
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIndia reported its lowest active number of novel coronavirus cases in seven months on Saturday, a year after the virus was first…
Covid new strain symptoms warning: The 'most unnoticeable' sign of coronavirus infection
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteCOVID new strain symptoms can be difficult to spot, but may include a high fever and a dry cough. Read More
Experimental PrEP that only needs to be taken once a month shows early promise
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIslatravir is a new antiretroviral drug currently in early stages of testing that researchers believe could have extraordinary capacity to persist in…
Prioritise cancer, HIV patients for COVID-19 vaccination: Experts
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteExperts have called for the inclusion of immunocompromised people such as those with cancer and people who live with HIV as a…
The origin of AIDS revealed? First person ever infected with HIV was a starving World War One soldier who caught the virus in Cameroon while hunting chimps, expert claims
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAIDS has claimed more than 33million lives and its causative agent, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has thus far proved impossible to…
Magufuli admits there's COVID-19 in Tanzania, blames citizens who travelled to foreign countries
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteTanzanian president John Pombe Magufuli has blamed “few” coronavirus cases in the country on citizens who travelled to foreign countries and returned…
Can moms pass COVID-19 immunity to their newborns?
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf a woman catches COVID-19 during pregnancy, can her baby pick up any immunity to the virus in the womb? Read More
Double-masking: Should you wear two face masks to protect against Covid? Dr Fauci suggests it ‘makes sense’
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDr Fauci says double-masking ‘more effective’ to stop Covid spread. Read More
Covid vaccines: What is the difference between the Pfizer, Oxford, Moderna, Novavax and Johnson & Johnson jabs
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine beat its rivals to be the first to be approved for use in the UK — Read More
New Test for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Meningitis in Patients With HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA new 60-minute point-of-care lateral flow assay featured the same sensitivity as mycobacterial culture in detecting tuberculosis meningitis (TBM) in adult patients…