August 22, 2022

Long-lasting HIV prevention drug could be game changer — but who will pay? Injectable antiviral cabotegravir provides stronger protection than oral pill, but researchers fear it could be too expensive to make a difference for countries with the greatest disease burden. T.V. Padma Twitter Facebook Email Coloured transmision electron micrograph (TEM) of HIV particles (pink) […]

Prolonged contact, especially with a person’s skin lesions, is emerging as the top transmission route. Max Kozlov Monkeypox virus particles (red) infect a cell (blue), as shown in this coloured image from a transmission electron microscope.Credit: NIAID/NIH/SPL As global monkeypox cases continue to soar, researchers are learning more about how the disease is spreading. Early

One ‘superspreader’ with Omicron shed 1,000 times as much viral RNA as those with Alpha or Delta.   A device called the Gesundheit-II can collect viral RNA exhaled by people infected with SARS-CoV-2.Credit: Isabel Teresa Sierra Maldonado People infected with the highly transmissible Alpha, Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 spew out higher amounts of