Infection Control Today - Coronaviruses

WHO Issues Update, Statement About the Novel Coronavirus Situation

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a statement regarding the currrent novel coronavirus situation in the Middle East. ...More

2 weeks ago

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Cell Response to New Coronavirus Unveils Possible Paths to Treatments

National Institutes of Health-supported scientists used lab-grown human lung cells to study the cells' response to infection by a novel human coronavirus (called nCoV) and compiled information about which genes are significantly disrupted in early and late stages of ...More

3 weeks ago

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Tactics of Novel Coronavirus Suggest Treatment by Altering Lung Cells' Response to Infection

A new virus that causes severe breathing distress and kidney failure elicits a distinctive airway cell response to allow it to multiply. Scientists studying the Human Coronavirus-Erasmus Medical Center, which first appeared April 2012 in the Middle East, have discovered ...More

3 weeks ago

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Treatment for Novel Coronavirus Shows Promise in Early Lab Tests

National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists studying an emerging coronavirus have found that a combination of two licensed antiviral drugs, ribavirin and interferon-alpha 2b, can stop the virus from replicating in laboratory-grown cells. These results suggest that the ...More

April 18, 2013

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CDC Issues Update on Severe Respiratory Illness Associated with a Novel Coronavirus

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to work closely with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners to better understand the public health risk posed by a novel coronavirus that was first reported to cause human infection in September ...More

March 7, 2013

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Novel Coronavirus Well-Adapted to Humans, Susceptible to Immunotherapy

The new coronavirus that has emerged in the Middle East is well-adapted to infecting humans but could potentially be treated with immunotherapy, according to a study to be published on February 19 in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for ...More

February 19, 2013

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New UK Cases of Novel Coronavirus

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) in the United Kingdom is confirming a second case of novel coronavirus infection in a family member of the case announced on Feb. 11, 2013. The patient, who is a UK resident, does not have any recent travel history and is currently ...More

February 13, 2013

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New Coronavirus Has Many Potential Hosts, Could Pass From Animals to Humans Repeatedly

The SARS epidemic of 2002-2003 was short-lived, but a novel type of human coronavirus that is alarming public health authorities can infect cells from humans and bats alike, a fact that could make the animals a continuing source of infection, according to a study published ...More

December 11, 2012

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New Coronavirus Related to Viruses From Bats

The virus that is causing alarm among global public health authorities after it killed a man in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia earlier this year and is now linked to two other cases of disease is a novel type of coronavirus most closely related to viruses found in bats, according to ...More

November 20, 2012

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UNC, Vanderbilt Discover a New Live Vaccine Approach for SARS and Novel Coronaviruses

Rapid mutation has long been considered a key to viral adaptation to environmental change. But in the case of the coronavirus responsible for deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), collaborating researchers at the University of North Carolina and Vanderbilt ...More

November 13, 2012

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