Category: Symptoms
Preprint: Susceptibility of alpaca, cattle, sheep, horse, goat and rabbit to intranasal infection with SARS-CoV-2
“We report pilot studies to evaluate the susceptibility of common domestic livestock (cattle, sheep, goat, alpaca, rabbit, and horse) to intranasal infection with SARS-CoV-2.” More...
STOP PRESS: World Health Organisation believes that Long COVID may be a thing
It seems the World Health Organisation has suddenly become aware of something called Long COVID after their chief scientist tweeted the following yesterday:. More...
Federal Reserve: Cognitive difficulties in 62 percent of adults with long COVID
“A degree of cognitive difficulty is especially common, cited by 62 percent of adults who currently report long-term COVID symptoms compared with 30 percent of those who have never had long-term symptoms.” More...
Preprint: Severe organ damage in zebrafish infected with SARS-CoV-2
“Our studies revealed that zebrafish showed inflammatory reaction to SARS-CoV-2 rSpike protein which provoked damage to organs (liver, kidney, ovaries and brain) …and resulted in 78.6% of survival rate in female adults during the first seven days.” More...
Preprint: BA.2.75 centaurus may be much more infective than pre-existing variants
“These results suggest that BA.2.75 can cause more severe respiratory disease than BA.5 and BA.2.” More...
Research: Paxlovid of no benefit to the under-65’s
“Among patients 65 years of age or older, the rates of hospitalization and death due to Covid-19 were significantly lower among those who received nirmatrelvir than among those who did not. More...
Monkeypox: anecdotal report of a double mpox vaccine breakthrough infection
A report on Reddit today of a couple who were double vaccinated against monkeypox who now have a confirmed breakthrough infection. More...
India: Covid-19 lung infections return
Indian doctors are once again seeing Covid-19 cases with lower respiratory tract infection symptoms involving the lungs in senior citizens and people with underlying ailments. More...
WHO: Suspected case of Ebola in Democratic Republic of the Congo
A suspected case of Ebola is being reported by the WHO in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
A 46-year-old woman who died on 15 August 2022 in Beni, a town located in North Kivu, subsequently, exhibited symptoms consistent with Ebola virus disease. More...
WHO: BA.2.75 has more efficient replication in lung cells, fusogenicity, pathogenicity
WHO: “Preliminary laboratory-based studies indicate a relative growth advantage of BA.2.75 as compared to BA.2 and BA.5. More...