By Alan Mozes HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If the pandemic taught the world nothing else, it’s that viruses can mutate, potentially giving rise to new and more harmful variants.Now, new research reveals that’s exactly what has happened with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.Called VB (for virulent subtype B), the “new”…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 has most likely spread around the world already, but ineffective COVID-19 testing will continue to hamper scientists’ ability to say anything definitive about the latest strain for several more weeks, according to two Johns Hopkins University experts. Meanwhile, infections continue to rise in the United States…
People line up to get on an overseas flight at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nov. 26, 2021. As the world grapples with the emergence of the new highly transmissible variant of COVID-19, worried scientists in South Africa—where omicron was first identified—are scrambling to combat its lightning spread across the country. Credit:…
