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Nearly six in ten Americans have already contracted Covid-19

Researchers on a track to explain why some are more resistant to SARS-CoV2

Since the start of the pandemic, more than 300 million people have been infected with SARS-Cov2, sometimes several times. For some, the Covid-19 infection has resulted in a simple cold. For others, it led them to the hospital on a ventilator, with further sequelae months later, and several million people have died from it around

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In the Basque Country, bipolar patients are treated with surf therapy sessions

In the Basque Country, bipolar patients are treated with surf therapy sessions

This Tuesday afternoon of May, the appointment is made on the large beach of Hendaye. A dozen voluntary patients disembarked in a minibus from the Surf Health association, parked on rue des Mûriers, right in front of the ocean. Everyone managed to put on a wetsuit, sometimes sulking in front of a small round belly,

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TESTIMONY.  Covid-19: the obstacle course of candidates for the Novavax vaccine, still difficult to access

TESTIMONY. Covid-19: the obstacle course of candidates for the Novavax vaccine, still difficult to access

the essential A number of vaccine candidates refuse products that use so-called messenger RNA technology. The arrival in France in February of Nuvaxovid, a recombinant protein vaccine, was to reshuffle the cards. In the field, however, access to this vaccine remains difficult for many patients. In her words, she went through a real “obstacle course”.

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Lupus: four questions to understand everything about this chronic autoimmune disease

Lupus: four questions to understand everything about this chronic autoimmune disease

On this World Lupus Day, let’s take stock of this chronic autoimmune disease which affects mostly women and whose diagnosis can sometimes take a long time to establish. The term « lupus » means wolf in Latin and designates one of the characteristic signs of this disease: on the skin of the face a kind of erythematous

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A wave of acute hepatitis is affecting British children, here is what we know – Edition du soir Ouest-France

A wave of acute hepatitis is affecting British children, here is what we know – Edition du soir Ouest-France

By Conor MEEHAN, Lecturer in Microbiology, Nottingham Trent University (UK) The SARS-CoV-2 responsible for the Covid has not yet been removed from the list of suspects. But the most likely culprit for the wave of severe hepatitis now affecting children in the UK is another virus, adenovirus. In recent months, the number of cases of

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Seasonal flu, possible direct descendant of the « Spanish » flu

AFP, published on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 6:35 p.m. Preserved in formalin, deciphered by genetics, European lung tissue from the beginning of the 20th century brings new knowledge about the « Spanish flu », of which one of the seasonal flu viruses could be a direct descendant, according to a study published on Tuesday in Nature.

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Covid: facing the BA.4 and BA.5 variants of Omicron, South Africa, affected by a 5th wave, can "guide" the world

Covid: facing the BA.4 and BA.5 variants of Omicron, South Africa, affected by a 5th wave, can « guide » the world

South Africa is hit by a fifth wave of Covid due to the new BA.4 and BA.5 variants. The current management of the epidemic could « guide » the world, if these variants spread to other countries as was the case for Omicron, estimates an epidemiologist. Sandbox of Covid-19 and its variants, South Africa is for researchers

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