Pandemic Alert: New Coronavirus Discovered in South American Bats; Could It Infect Humans?
Scientists from Brazil have identified a novel coronavirus that shares similarities with the virus that causes Middle East ...
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Monkeypox: What We Know (and What We Don’t)
To find out more about the monkeypox virus and the current outbreak, The Scientist spoke with Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Rimoin has been studying ...
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First case of new strain of mpox in Brazil confirmed
The patient, a 29-year-old woman who lives in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, had contact with a relative who had been ...
The Scientist2y
Opinion: Destroy All Samples of the Smallpox Virus
scientists would need samples of the modified virus to develop a new vaccine and therapeutics—the legacy smallpox samples would be scientifically useless. Similarly, these smallpox samples have no ...
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Molluscum Contagiosum Virus
The molluscum contagiosum (MC) virus (MCV) is a dermatotropic poxvirus, and the causative agent of MC. Unlike smallpox and human monkeypox diseases, MC is nonlethal, common and worldwide.
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We should care more about emerging infectious diseases, and the tools we need to fight them
The culprit was mpox, then known as the monkeypox virus. Unlike SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, this was not a novel virus but had been identified in laboratory monkeys in Denmark as far back ...