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    New ACE2 blocking 87G7 Monoclonal Antibody Protects against All Covid variants.

    Researchers have developed 87G7, a SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing human monoclonal antibody with exceptional broad-spectrum neutralization and safety efficacy. 87G7 inhibits SARS-CoV-2 an infection by inhibiting ACE2 binding and has sturdy neutralizing exercise in opposition to Alpha, Beta, Gamma...
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    Delta & Omicron co-infection reported.

    A team from Sydney, Australia has reported the first cases of Delta & Omicron co-infection. Two epidemiologically unrelated patients suffering from chronic kidney disease and requiring haemodialysis has been identified . Both Delta & Omicron variants were co-circulating locally in Sydney at the...
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    Covid - Long Term Cardiovascular outcomes.

    A recent publication states... "The cardiovascular complications of acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are well described, but the post-acute cardiovascular manifestations of COVID-19 have not yet been comprehensively characterized. Here we used national healthcare databases from the US...
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    MHRA (UK) approves Nuvaxovid

    Nuvaxovid, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Novavax, has just been given regulatory approval by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Thus it becomes the fifth Covid vaccine approved in the UK. Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed, Chair of the independent Commission on...
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    Omicron has decreased ability to enter Lung Cells

    A multinational team including the University of Cambridge (UK), South Africa has established that even though the Omicron variant has gained exceptional immune evasion properties but also a much lower propensity to enter cells such as those in lung alveoli, resulting in its reduced...
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    Cat Brains are shrinking.... Humans at fault.

    House cat skulls have gotten significantly smaller over the last 10,000 years, and so have their brains. New research has shown that thousands of years of human dependence has caused the cat brains to shrink. They have compared domesticated cats with two of their closest wild ancestors, African...
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    Some facts on RAT kits.

    Recently there were some posts on RAT accuracy etc and hence this post. RAT kits have a come a long way since it's introduction during the worst pandemic times. At that time some test kits were notoriously error prone with false negatives. Now the technology has evolved and we do have quite...
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    The Omicron sisters - BA.1, BA.2 & BA.3

    Somewhere in Novermber21, Omicron, discovered in Botswana and classified as the fifth variant of concern, by the WHO on November 26, 2021, the most mutated variant of SARS-CoV-2, has now circulated in 150 countries/territories around the world. It was recently divided into three BA.1, BA.2 &...
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    Long-Term Persistence of IgG Antibodies in recovered Covid patients at 18 months & the impact of two-dose Pfizer Vaccine

    A recently released study by researchers based in Italy & the UK assessed IgG titers over 18 months in patients who had recovered from Covid infections during March 2020. The study also investigated the impact of two doses of the Pfizer vaccination on the antibody titers of these patients as...
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    Could 2 People Actually Repopulate Earth

    Interesting video....
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    AMR - Another leading cause of Global deaths.

    Published in the Lancet 19 January 2022.... Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major threat to human health around the world. Previous publications have estimated the effect of AMR on incidence, deaths, hospital length of stay, and health-care costs for specific pathogen–drug combinations...
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    Stopping the Covid Wave....

    Another Viyath Maga initiative.........
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    A Reply to the President....

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    Possible Key to the low mortality of children with Covid - Naïve T cells

    It's a known fact that younger individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 had fewer cases and a lower mortality rate. Also it's assumed that the human immune system develops continuously from birth to adolescence, and that immunity to infections is strongest in early to middle adulthood, then begins...
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    Novax - Visa - Lost in translation

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    In Loving Memory of Magawa - APOPO HeroRAT

    APOPO - The Belgian organization (Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling) who trains rats for the detection of landmines & tuberculosis in a statement says, "A hero is laid to rest. It is with a heavy heart that we share the sad news that HeroRAT Magawa passed away peacefully...
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    Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants

    In a recent study by researchers at the Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University - Two cannabinoids have shown the highest affinities for the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein, and those were cannabidiolic acid (CBDA) and cannabigerolic acid (CBGA). They have successfully blocked infection...
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    The Gas Queue....

    :P :rofl: ගෑස් පෝලිමේ හිටපු මනුස්සයෙක්ට හොඳටම කේන්ති ගිහින් "ගෝඨාභය හින්දා තමයි මේ ඔක්කොම" කියලා බැන බැන ඉඳලා ගෑස් පරක්කු උන තැන "මම යනවා ගෝඨාභය මරන්න, නැත්නම් මේ ප්‍රශ්නේ විසඳෙන්නෑ" කියලා පොලිමත් අතෑරලා ගියාලු. ටික වෙලාවක් ගිහින් අර මනුස්සයා ෂේප් එකේ ඇවිත් ආපහු පොලිමේ පිටිපස්සෙම හිටගන්නවා...
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    180 Million year old Sea Dragon.....

    The remains of a monstrous, 33-foot-long (10 meters) "sea dragon" that swam in the seas when dinosaurs were alive some 180 million years ago have been unearthed on a nature reserve in England. The behemoth is the biggest and most complete fossil of its kind ever discovered in the U.K. "It is a...

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