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Deadlier than Covid-19, but less contagious: What we know about Nipah bat-borne virus threatening to become new scourge in India

A specialist team was sent to the southern state of Kerala to assist local medics, after samples from the deceased…

3 years ago

Nipah infections rise to 11 in India after virus with no vaccine available kills 12yo boy in Kerala

The number of people showing symptoms for the virus hit 11 on Monday, according to Kerala Health Minister Veena George.…

3 years ago

Notorious ‘joker virus’ that subscribes you to paid services back on Android devices, Belgian police warn

Belgium’s Police Fédérale released a statement on Friday morning warning people that the joker virus is back for Android. The announcement…

3 years ago

Guinea reports first case of Marburg virus – Ebola’s cousin – in West Africa, as one person dies of highly infectious disease

Health authorities in Guinea confirmed the case on Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement. The disease…

3 years ago

1st Chinese man to be infected by deadly monkey B virus died in Beijing in May – report

The unnamed 53-year-old veterinarian from Beijing died on May 27, just a few months after he dissected two dead monkeys…

3 years ago

Farewell to anti-virus guru John McAfee, the wild, high-living, paranoid, millionaire genius I was glad to call my neighbour

The death of McAfee is the final chapter in the mad, bad life of a man who became my neighbour…

3 years ago

John McAfee’s lawyer says anti-virus tycoon showed no indication he would take his own life

Javier Villalba told Reuters on Thursday that he “had constant telephone contact” with McAfee and “at no point had he…

3 years ago

Big Brother spy agency claims ‘extremism’ is Germany’s new virus… but it’s only the far-right variant it seems to be worried about

One of the problems public health officials face with treating Covid-19 is that it presents in so many ways, and…

3 years ago

Future virus ‘more deadly’ than Covid-19 will spark new pandemic, WHO chief warns

“Make no mistake, this will not be the last time the world faces the threat of pandemic,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus…

3 years ago

Sweden’s goal was to live with the Covid virus rather than try to suppress it, and this new book sets out its success

As someone who tends towards scepticism about anything governments do in relation to health – I always prefer giving people…

3 years ago