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Published in the American Journal of Otolaryngology, the study suggests a link between the Omicron variant of the Covid virus and the development of Otitis Media with Effusion (OME) in affected patients
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Prior exposure to a common cold coronavirus may offer partial protection against lung damage during a subsequent SARS-CoV-2 infection, as uncovered by the La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), US.
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Long Covid and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) are closely related, confirms a study
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The reason for the lack of severity is due to higher penetration of Covid vaccines, including the booster shots and immunity gained by previous natural infections, they point out.
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Researchers at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in New Delhi discover potential hidden reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 in extracellular vesicles (EVs).
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Published in Nature Communications, the study, conducted on an animal model, affirms that SARS-CoV-2 can infect human neurons in vitro and travel within axons, the projections of nerve cells responsible for information transmission.
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Long-Covid is known to persist for several months subsequent to the initial infection
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The findings suggest that recommendations to test symptomatic children for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and keep positive children home from child care for prolonged periods can be revised to align with those for other serious respiratory viruses
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The study, led by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, based on electronic health record (EHR) data showed that SARS-CoV-2 accounted for approximately one in six cases of sepsis during the first two and a half years of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Although protocols have been developed to assess patients' risk, diagnostic and prognostic tools primarily rely on expensive and less accessible imaging methods, such as radiography, ultrasound, or computed tomography (CT).
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In certain situations, the dog provided a swift sniff to signal the presence of Covid-19 in a person, while in other cases, the dog was presented with a sweat sample for detection, which could take a few minutes.
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The study found that at least 20 per cent of Covid-infected people do not develop symptoms or they remain asymptomatic.
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Before SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spread across the world in 2020, tuberculosis was responsible for more deaths globally than any other infectious disease.
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No study had identified a "smoking gun" - a mechanism that might explain this apparent risk imbalance.
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There are still unanswered issues about the reasons underpinning why some COVID patients continue to have reduced exercise ability while others recover without this issue.
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Pennsylvania State University researchers in the US partnered with Evaxion Biotech on a study that was the first to demonstrate the effectiveness of an AI-generated vaccine in a live viral challenge model.
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The rise of Covid and influenza cases in India may lead to fatal as people will be co-infected by the viruses and if not treated on time, said health experts
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At 18 months, the effects were more modest in males, with maternal SARS-CoV-2 positivity linked to a 42 per cent higher odds of a neurodevelopmental diagnosis at this age.
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The team showed that with the aid of these mutations, several such Omicron recombinant and mutant strains were able to escape from the host's defences and bind more tightly to the host cell.
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Health Minister urged people with co-morbid conditions like hypertension, sugar, heart ailments and cancer to be very careful and take precautions from SARS-CoV-2.