Virus
Amid a surge in reported cases of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), commonly known as the 'zombie deer virus,' across the United States, Canada, and northern Europe, UAE doctors are advising caution against the potential for animal-to-human tran..
Almost half of mobile phones tested at the height of the pandemic were contaminated with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, bolstering a theory that the devices supercharged the spread of Covid-19, according to a study. Researchers from Bond University in Aust..
A woman in her 70s died in Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, after contracting the Oz virus, making her case the world’s first death by the possibly tick-borne infection, Japanese authorities said on Friday. The virus was discovered in..
A new type of cancer therapy that uses a common virus to infect and destroy harmful cells is showing big promise in early human trials, say UK scientists. One patient's cancer vanished, while others saw their tumours shrink. The drug is a w..
The number of daily average cases among the community has seen a slight decrease this week in the weekly status report of the Ministry of Public Health. Meanwhile, the number of community cases in the last 24 hours reported on Monday,Aug,1st..
Another elephant has died at Zurich Zoo from the herpes virus, the park said on Saturday, the third to die there from the condition since the end of June. Ruwani, a five-year-old elephant cow, died on Saturday morning after succumbing to Elephant ..
Ghana has confirmed its first two cases of the deadly Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. It says both patients died recently in hospital in the southern Ashanti region. Their samples ca..
A senior Ministry of Public Health official has urged the people in Qatar to take the fourth dose of a COVID-19 vaccine four months after the third and wear masks in closed and crowded public places as infections are on the rise in the country. &q..
North Korea's daily fever cases dropped to below 100,000 for the first time, state media said on Saturday, less than three weeks after the country's first acknowledgement of a COVID-19 outbreak. The isolated country has been in a heated ba..
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