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«لانجيا» فيروس مرتبط بفيروسَي «نيباه» و«هيندرا»، ولكنه لا ينتشر بسهولةٍ بين البشر. بقلم: سمريتي مالاباتي                                                      يشير العلماء إلى أنّ بعض أنواع «الزبابات» قد تكون حاملةً لفيروس لانجيا               …

Alexander Limbach/shutterstock Lena Ciric, UCL; Abigail Hathway, University of Sheffield; Benjamin Jones, University of Nottingham, and Chris Iddon, University of Nottingham Masks have been a common sight all over the world since SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, invaded our lives. We set out to investigate if they work. Our goal was to find out how the virus travels through the air …

Understanding how much protection a vaccine offers is not as simple as it sounds. Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Images Melissa Hawkins, American University The pandemic has brought many tricky terms and ideas from epidemiology into everyone’s lives. Two particularly complicated concepts are vaccine efficacy and effectiveness. These are not the same thing. And as time goes on and new variants …

Young people participating in the 2018 Women’s March in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. (The Conversation Indonesia/Luthfi T. Dzulfikar), CC BY-NC-ND Jacqueline Hendriks, Curtin University Schools play an important role in ensuring that young people receive comprehensive education about relationships and sexual health. Based on three decades of research from around the world, we know that school-based education is highly effective. It supports …

Rift Valley Fever virus, 3D illustration. Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock George Warimwe, University of Oxford Professor George Warimwe should be a household name in Kenya. He’s a leading scientist who has created a life-saving vaccine against Rift Valley Fever. He is also leading policy-changing work on Yellow Fever vaccines. Warimwe has now been awarded the Royal Society Africa Prize for his work …

Rural women in Agincourt, South Africa, with water collection containers. Lauren Porter Ryan G Wagner, University of the Witwatersrand; Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula, University of the Witwatersrand, and Daniel Ohene-Kwofie, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa has experienced tremendous change over the last quarter century: the first democratically elected government, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, changing health, social and economic policies and now …

What not to do: ban travel. Scenes at South Africa’s OR Tambo International airport after the first flight bans were announced. Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images Shabir A. Madhi, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa reacted with outrage to travel bans, first triggered by the UK, imposed on it in the wake of the news that its genomics …

Scientists find variants by sequencing samples from people that have tested positive for the virus. Lightspring/Shutterstock Prof. Wolfgang Preiser, Stellenbosch University; Cathrine Scheepers, University of the Witwatersrand; Jinal Bhiman, National Institute for Communicable Diseases; Marietjie Venter, University of Pretoria, and Tulio de Oliveira, University of KwaZulu-Natal Since early in the COVID pandemic, the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa …

Nina Drozdowa/Shutterstock Alexander Edwards, University of Reading We’ve waited 20 months for a medicine to blunt the coronavirus, and now two have appeared. Earlier this month, the UK medicines regulator approved molnupiravir, the COVID antiviral developed by Merck and Ridgeback Therapeutics. Among adults with mild to moderate COVID who were at risk of developing serious disease, it cut the chances …

Shutterstock / O.PASH Marta González Álvarez, Universidad Miguel Hernández; Isabel Gonzalez-Alvarez, Universidad Miguel Hernández, and Maria del Val Bermejo Sanz, Universidad Miguel Hernández Casi todos aquellos que tengan o hayan tenido hijos e hijas sabrán de lo que hablamos. El día menos ansiado en el que observa que su hijo no para de rascarse y le confirma que le pica …