A Chinese team of virologists has found that this virus carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission. According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the new virus called HKU5-CoV-2 was ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) and other conditions affecting the immune system can activate the John Cunningham (JC) virus, causing a potentially life threatening infection. The JC virus is common ...

A newly discovered bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, similar to the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been identified in China. The discovery was made by a team of virologists led by Shi ...

A sludge-coloured foam and several dead fish have been sighted on the beaches of Waitpinga Point to Victor Harbor, causing a ...

In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused COVID mutates rather slowly. If that remained true, the virus ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Older adults who were exposed to seasonal flu viruses that circulated prior to 1968 are more likely to have some protection against H5N1, and children would benefit more from ...

Domoic acid is a neurotoxin produced by harmful algal blooms that accumulates in ... the source of the virus has not yet determined, but experts suspect raw meat. Dec. 18, 2024 The exposure ...

Grace Wilkinson says there are a lot of reasons to suspect algal blooms might be getting worse. The UW Madison associate professor says things like climate change and increased human activity in lakes ...

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Extensive coronavirus research has led to the discovery of a new bat virus called HKU5-CoV-2. According to a new study published in the medical journal Cell, the new virus can enter human cells using ...

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