Is the desire to pee, is it contagious?
For the first time, Japanese researchers have described a phenomenon called "contagious urination" in chimpanzees. Essential When a urine chimpanzee, ...
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Covid-19: high contagiousness linked to its ability to defeat the innate immune response
Researchers have discovered the enzyme used by SARS-CoV-2 to defeat the body's innate immune response, which explains its greater contagiousness, ...
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What if your stress was impacting your dog’s behavior?
The smell of human stress affects dogs' emotions and causes them to make more pessimistic choices. THE ESSENTIAL In one ...
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Suicide: is it contagious?
American researchers have examined the contagion of suicide after the death of celebrities and are opening up avenues for prevention. ...
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Streptococcus A: contagion, angina in babies, cases and deaths in France
© ShutterstockSUMMARY :Streptococcus A: how many cases and deaths in France?What are the symptoms of a strep A infection?What diseases ...
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Gastroenteritis 2023: duration, contagion, symptoms, currently in France
© ShutterstockSUMMARY :Gastroenteritis 2023: how many cases at the moment in France?What is gastroenteritis?How long does gastro last?What are the ...
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Covid Omicron symptoms (January 2023): duration, contagion, incubation
© ShutterstockSUMMARY :What are the symptoms of Omicron?What is the incubation time of Omicron?What is the reinfection timeframe?Variant BA 5: ...
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It’s proven: infidelity is contagious
Being around unfaithful people could make us cheat on our partner, according to an Israeli study. THE ESSENTIAL Volunteers who ...
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Variant XXB of Covid-19: 3 things to know about this new mutation
The contagiousness and resistance to vaccines of a new strain XXB of Omicron concern the scientific community. THE ESSENTIAL Covid ...
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What is this new bird flu detected in a human in China?
A 4-year-old child contracted the H3N8 avian flu which had never before been detected in humans. THE ESSENTIAL China has ...
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Covid-19: two new centers of contagion in Dordogne and Vienne
On the eve of deconfinement, two new "clusters" were declared in Dordogne and Vienne. Nearly twenty people tested positive for ...
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How patient swabs explain the contagiousness of the virus
Faced with the development of the Covid-19 epidemic, it appears that the ability of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus to pass from ...
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Why is fear contagious?
It is indeed possible to transmit your fears, according to American scientists. When some are frightened, they would be more ...
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‘No signs of contagion’ after 5,000-person test concert in Barcelona
On March 27, a test concert was organized in front of 5,000 people in Barcelona with the group Love of ...
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Covid-19 and pollens: precautions to take… but avoid psychosis!
Even if the cold spell expected in the coming days will put a short break, the spring season marks the ...
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BA.2 (sub variant Omicron): symptoms, cases in France, contagion
© ShutterstockSUMMARY :BA.2: how many cases in France?What symptoms?Contagion: what do we know about BA.2?Is BA.2 more severe than BA.1?What ...
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Covid-19: why we must quickly isolate infected people
A study published in The Lancet highlights the high contagiousness of people infected with Covid-19 during the first week after ...
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Measles: 50% more deaths worldwide between 2016 and 2019
This viral infection, which particularly affects children, has reached its highest level in 23 years. The World Health Organization (WHO) ...
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Scientists have created the anti-malaria mosquito
These Anopheles mosquitoes have been genetically modified using CRISPR-Cas9 “genetic scissors” so that they can no longer transmit the parasite ...
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Has SARS-CoV-2 become more contagious?
A mutation of SQARS-CoV-2 has been observed by American scientists. It would make the coronavirus more contagious but without worsening ...
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Why the SARS-CoV-2 virus is more contagious than other coronaviruses
The health crisis we are currently going through is caused by a new virus. But the family to which she ...
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Covid-19: children in nursery do not spread the virus
While the closures of childcare facilities are increasing across the globe, French researchers have just demonstrated that children kept in ...
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China: resurgence of new cases of Covid-19 in Beijing
The epidemic situation in Beijing is “extremely serious”, warned a spokesperson for the town hall on Tuesday, June 16, when ...
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Coronavirus: in Brazil, a hug curtain allows the elderly to hug their loved ones
In Brazil, a hug curtain has been installed in a retirement home in São Paulo to allow elderly people to ...
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Coronavirus: WHO retracts after saying that asymptomatic people were not contagious
A WHO official said at a recent press conference that asymptomatic people were not contagious, before retracting. THE ESSENTIAL WHO ...
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Coronavirus: children are indeed “very small contaminators”
A new study unveiled this Thursday, June 4 in Le Parisien confirms that children are “very small contaminators” of coronavirus. ...
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Coronavirus: patients cured again positive would not be contagious
According to a new South Korean study, patients who test positive after recovering from Covid-19 are not contagious. Virus remnants ...
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New coronavirus patients isolated at the hotel: but where are they?
On April 19, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced that new coronavirus patients could recover at the hotel if they wished, ...
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Coronavirus: those patients who do not recover
More and more doctors are seeing former Covid-19 patients return to consult them about six weeks after leaving hospital with ...
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Podcast: “Children are not responsible for the dynamics of the epidemic”
In the summary of our daily meeting led by Dr Jean-François Lemoine: while a study on the contagiousness of children ...
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