Malaria and the incidence of COVID-19 in Africa: an ecological study
Mar 7 2023
It has been shown that stimulation of innate immunity may provide temporary protection against a variety of infectious diseases.
Resistance of Omicron subvariants BA.2.75.2, BA.4.6, and BQ.1.1
Mar 7 2023
Convergent evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2, BA.4, and BA.5 lineages has led to the emergence of several new subvariants, including BA.2.75.2, BA.4.6. and BQ.1.1.
Genetics might explain why some people have never had COVID – but we
Mar 7 2023
Scientists are trying to find out whether there’s a genetic reason certain people have managed to avoid COVID
Antibiotics are being inappropriately prescribed for COVID, increasing
Mar 7 2023
Antibiotics are drugs designed to treat infections caused by bacteria (for example, skin infections). They don’t work on infections caused by other microbes such as viruses (including COVID and flu) or fungi.
COVID-19: Recent study recommends comprehensive research on African traditional medicine
Jan 24 2023
Result of a recent study called for comprehensive research on traditional medicine in African countries to prevent future COVID-19 pandemic in the continent.
Researchers report a reduction in hospitalizations and deaths from SARS-CoV-2 infections during
Jan 24 2023
In a recent study published in eClinicalMedicine, researchers conducted a serosurvey during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
The impossible task of calculating global pandemic deaths
Jan 24 2023
December’s WHO calculations of excess deaths during the pandemic highlight a big, but largely unseen, problem in global health: Lack of proper mortality surveillance in half the world’s countries.
How COVID-19 – and money, politics and colonial history – rattled trust in an Ebola vaccine in the DRC
Jan 24 2023
An ethnographic study gets below the surface of false rumours that swirled in North Kivu after the pandemic landed, finding valuable insights beneath factual inaccuracy
As COVID-19 becomes routine, Africa readies for next crisis
Jan 24 2023
Building on the experience of battling the COVID-19 pandemic, African countries are strengthening health systems to prepare for the next health crisis, the World Health Organization’s Africa director said