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Persistent SARS-CoV-2 Infections in the Community Show Fast Within-Host Change but Little Late Transmission
11 Sep 2025 13:21 GMT
… , investigators identified 576 persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections. Longer … important role in helping SARS-CoV-2 switch off … evolutionary rates across the SARS-CoV-2 genome.
Within … defining mutations, yet onward transmission beyond the first month appeared …
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Persistent SARS-CoV-2 Infection Lasting Over 750 Days Documented in Person With HIV
10 Sep 2025 17:43 GMT
… the longest known persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections—lasting … with advanced HIV carried SARS-CoV-2 for more … suggesting little evidence of sustained transmission chains.
Hanage stressed that … .Characterisation of a persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection lasting …
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Top 5 Infectious Disease News Stories Week of September 6-13
13 Sep 2025 17:19 GMT
… of the longest documented persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections, exceeding 750 … was no evidence of onward transmission. Coauthor William P. Hanage, PhD … infections do not yield highly transmissible variants, they provide opportunities for …
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Former CDC Director Believes in ‘Early Spread’
13 Sep 2025 16:42 GMT
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“We now know that the transmission of Covid-19 probably began … and is very contagious (unlike Sars-1 and MERS.)
Indeed, Redfield … to make a virus more “transmissible” in human beings. (Redfield noted …
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Author, epidemiologist on the next pandemic
13 Sep 2025 15:14 GMT
… now. We’re seeing different transmission now in 2022 than we … saved us with MERS and SARS was they weren’t as … has the same high-efficiency transmission potential that COVID did. And … characteristics as a MERS or SARS that could kill 30 percent …
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Geographic Limits in Stimulus Curbed Seoul COVID-19
12 Sep 2025 11:37 GMT
… of SARS-CoV-2, particularly during periods of heightened viral transmission … effectively reducing opportunities for viral transmission driven by human mobility.
Further … wielded strategically to confine virus transmission by modulating spatial consumption …
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The Invisible World Around Us: How Can We Capture And Clean The Air We Breathe?
11 Sep 2025 18:36 GMT
… known bioaerosols is the SARS-CoV-2 virus that … bacterial species use aerosol transmission to cause respiratory infections. … challenges with monitoring airborne transmission is [in] your … interesting to understand what transmission processes are occurring, to …
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Fact-checking Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general, about the whooping cough vaccine
11 Sep 2025 16:49 GMT
… ;s ineffective at preventing transmission."
Pertussis, or whooping … vaccine’s effectiveness regarding transmission is "broadly… rotavirus vaccines — they lessen transmission," said Dr. Paul … of Philadelphia. "With SARS-CoV-2, (the virus …
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Student Health sees surge in COVID cases
11 Sep 2025 08:36 GMT
… 10 student residential buildings for SARS-CoV-2, influenza A and … — have “very high” levels of SARS-CoV-2 according to tests … a time when COVID-19 transmission is high, and they’re … to a disease that its transmission is seriously hindered — varies based …
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1,500-Year-Old Mystery Solved: Scientists Rewrite the Origins of the World’s First Pandemic
11 Sep 2025 00:48 GMT
… in stark contrast to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (COVID-19 … primarily through human-to-human transmission.
Greg O’Corry-Crowe, PhD …