Mutations of SARS-CoV-2: “We don’t know how things will turn out”
Etienne Simon-Lorière, head of the Evolutionary Genomics of RNA Viruses Unit at the Pasteur Institute, disentangles the true from the ...
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Mutations in the virus would be minimal, making possible the development of a unique vaccine
The end of the debate on possible mutations of the Covid-19 virus? An American team assures that he would have ...
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Covid-19: first case of reinfection discovered in Hong Kong
The man, who tested positive in March, reportedly contracted the virus again in mid-August, but did not develop symptoms, the ...
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Covid-19: possible cross-immunity with the common cold
A German research team publishes in the journal Nature a study demonstrating a possible cross-reactivity between the SARS-CoV-2 virus and ...
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Coronavirus: children play a role in its spread
Even if the latter show few symptoms, they carry a high load of the SARS-CoV2 virus and therefore play an ...
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The new coronavirus has been present in the bat for at least 40 years
A team of international researchers suggests that the SARS-CoV-2 which causes the pandemic has been circulating in bats for more ...
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Transmission of the coronavirus: mosquitoes out of the question
American researchers have succeeded in proving that SARS-CoV-2 is not transmitted by mosquitoes. THE ESSENTIAL Mosquitoes are refractory to SARS-CoV-2 ...
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The coronavirus currently circulating is more potent than the original strain
The variant of SARS-CoV-2 currently circulating in Europe and the United States would be 3 to 6 times more likely ...
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Covid-19: a French vaccine tested on humans in July
In an interview with “Point”, the scientific director of the Institut Pasteur confirms that the first human clinical trials of ...
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Coronavirus: UV rays harmless to humans to kill airborne coronaviruses
According to a new study, 99.9% of seasonal viruses in airborne droplets were destroyed after exposure to far UV wavelength, ...
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Covid-19: the epidemic could have been accelerated by a mutation of the virus
SARS-CoV-2 would have become more easily transmissible following a mutation affecting the protein that allows it to infect cells in ...
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Coronavirus: powerful human antibodies tested on animals
Researchers have found antibodies in the blood of recovering Covid-19 patients that may protect them against the virus. At least ...
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Coronavirus: the three stages of damage to the nervous system by SARS-CoV-2
It had already been proven that the new coronavirus could attack the nervous system. Scientists have named this phenomenon NeuroCovid ...
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Coronavirus: in the United States, a double lung transplant saves a young patient
In the United States, doctors performed for the first time a double lung transplant on a young Covid-19 patient whose ...
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Coronavirus: consequences for mental health
An American study warns against the appearance of mental disorders in patients who have been severely affected by the coronavirus. ...
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Discovery of an antibody against the coronavirus creates hope for a treatment
Researchers have discovered a “promising” antibody against SARS-CoV-2 that “holds the promise of an effective antidote to limit the Covid-19 ...
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Covid: SARS-CoV-2 “may never disappear”, warns WHO
“We have a new virus that is entering the human population for the first time and it is therefore very ...
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Coronavirus: a large study confirms that the elderly are much more at risk
According to a new British study, the largest ever carried out on SARS-CoV-2, the risk of death from coronavirus in ...
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Coronavirus: evidence of the natural origin of SARS-CoV-2
A new study provides evidence that the virus causing Covid-19 is of natural origin and not the result of human ...
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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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Coronavirus: triple antiviral therapy shows promising results
To fight against SARS-CoV-2, Chinese researchers have announced promising results on a two-week antiviral triple therapy combined with standard care. ...
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Coronavirus: French athletes infected in Wuhan from October?
According to an athlete interviewed by BFMTV, the first French cases of coronavirus could have taken place as early as ...
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The coronavirus would have come from a Chinese laboratory: “There is immense evidence”, assures the United States
“There is immense evidence” that SARS-CoV-2 started from a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan, the cradle of the epidemic, assured the ...
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A Covid-19 positive cat in France
A first domestic cat has tested positive for Covid-19 in France. THE ESSENTIAL The animal tested positive showed digestive and ...
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Coronavirus and temperatures: could the virus return every winter?
While many experts are counting on the arrival of summer in the northern hemisphere to weaken SARS-CoV-2, this is unlikely ...
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Surgical and cotton masks do not effectively filter SARS-CoV-2
A new study claims that neither surgical masks nor cotton masks effectively filter out SARS-CoV-2, letting the virus spread if ...
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Covid-19: the Academy of Medicine wants to make the vaccine mandatory
For the Academy of Medicine, "obligation is not a bad word when it comes to vaccinating against Covid-19". "Already mentioned ...
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“Terrace effect”: the decline of the Covid-19 epidemic continues, but at a slower pace
The various epidemiological indicators are on the decline, but several points of vigilance remain.The epidemic seems to be receding in ...
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