Tag: virology
Can you gargle away viruses? – Health
Just got home from the doctor’s office – and now I have a bad feeling: Maybe it would have been better to put on a mask when there was so…
Connection between two viruses observed for the first time – new cooperation mechanism between different viruses discovered
November 8, 2023, reading time: 4 minutes. Photo evidence: A research team has observed for the first time how two different viruses attach to each other and combine. Until now,…
Connection between two viruses observed for the first time – new cooperation mechanism between different viruses discovered
November 8, 2023, reading time: 4 minutes. Photo evidence: A research team has observed for the first time how two different viruses attach to each other and combine. Until now,…
The highly contagious bird flu soon reached every continent – knowledge
The worst wave of bird flu to date has been raging worldwide for three years. The virus has long been killing not only birds, but also seals, bears and foxes.…
Bird flu threatens Antarctica – Knowledge
Bird flu is spreading to ever more remote regions of the world – and is now becoming a threat to penguins. So far, Antarctica, Australia and Oceania have been spared.…
Sandra Ciesek on lessons from the corona pandemic and current risks – health
Sandra Ciesek welcomes you on the creaking stairs, the Institute for Virology at the University of Frankfurt was built in the 19th century, herringbone parquet floors at your feet, airplanes…
Sandra Ciesek on lessons from the pandemic and current risks – health
Sandra Ciesek welcomes you on the creaking stairs, the Institute for Virology at the University of Frankfurt was built in the 19th century, herringbone parquet floors at your feet, airplanes…
Genetic engineering should make chickens resistant to bird flu – health
With a small intervention in the genetic material, biotechnologists have succeeded in making chickens resistant to bird flu pathogens. Like the team around Alewo Idoko-Akoh and Mike McGrew from the…
“It all depends on how well this outbreak is controlled” – Health
Not as infectious as Corona, but deadlier: Virologist Beatriz Escudero Pérez explains why the Nipah virus is so dangerous. After the death of two people from the Nipah virus, schools…
India: Lockdown due to Nipah virus – two dead in Kerala – Health
The Nipah virus has broken out in India for the third time. After two people died in the south of the country, public life in parts of the southwestern state…