Month: January 2022

People in Scotland are being urged to book their covid vaccine with Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, asking people to do the right thing. Speaking at the Scottish Parliament yesterday (January 18) she stated that the latest available data shows that someone not fully vaccinated is at least four times more likely to require hospital treatment than someone who has had a booster or third dose. And although being fully vaccinated does not eradicate the risk of contracting covid completely, it does reduce the symptoms, the chances of ending up in hospital as well as the reducing the risk of death. In addition, it also reduces the risk of us passing it on to others. She added: "Being fully vaccinated could, quite literally, save your own life - and it could save someone else’...

Nano-bubble evACE2, which could be delivered as nasal spray, fights new COVID variants as well as or better than the original strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Nano-bubble evACE2 fights new variants as well as or better than original strain of virus. Drug can be delivered as nasal spray Acts as decoy to capture virus before it enters cell ‘It’s urgent to identify novel therapeutics’ EvACE2 arises naturally in COVID-19 patients as part of the anti-viral response Scientists at Northwestern Medicine and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified natural nano-bubbles containing the ACE2 protein (evACE2) in the blood of COVID-19 patients and discovered these nano-sized particles can block infection from broad strains of SARS-CoV-2 virus in preclinical studies. ...

MRSA bacteria DTKUTOO | Getty Images Drug-resistant bacteria killed almost 1.3 million people in 2019, scientists have estimated — more than either HIV or malaria. Researchers also estimated that antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections played some role in 4.95 million deaths in the same year. The findings of the study — which was funded by the U.K. government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — were published in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet on Wednesday. The World Health Organization has described antibiotic resistance as "one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today," and said that although the phenomenon occurs naturally, misuse of antibiotics in humans and animals is accelerating the proce...