The BCG agent could protect against the coronavirus – health

Developed over many years of bacterial culture, without modern laboratory methods or basic knowledge of genetics and genetics: the BCG tuberculosis vaccine – short for Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, old-fashioned after its French discoverers – has been an old-school drug for more than a hundred years old. Could this active ingredient play a decisive role in the … Read more

INTERVIEW. Coronavirus: what immunity for people who have contracted the disease?

the essential This is a key element for researchers: knowing what proportion of the French population was contaminated with Covid-19. And for good reason, people who have already been exposed to Sars-Cov-2 are likely to have developed effective antibodies against the virus. Professor Izopet, of the Toulouse Purpan physiopathology center, returns to some points of … Read more

Coronavirus United States: The feelings of medical students in the USA: “It is very difficult not to help when you feel morally and ethically obliged to do so”

Coronavirus United States A survey reflects the dilemma in the Universities U.S It is the country that appears at the top when the world is ordered by number of fatalities due to the coronavirus: 22,106 dead and more than half a million infected people. From the White House, responsible for Health He already claims that … Read more

Studies with TB vaccine against COVID-19 are ongoing, but shot months away

Researchers this week began experimenting with the use of the tuberculosis vaccine to fight COVID-19, the disease brought on by the new coronavirus, but a usable shot is probably months away, the experts said. Studies of the vaccine, called Bacillus Calmette-Guérin or BCG, are now underway in the Netherlands and Australia, with additional studies to … Read more

“No better time to quit smoking” – Health

Until now it was only a suspicion, now it has been proven: smokers literally pave the way for the novel corona virus with their vice. “There is a lot of evidence that smoking is one of the major risk factors for being much more affected by the coronavirus or even dying.” Some time ago, the … Read more

“Virologists have a hard time getting money from the EU for research” – The Daily Standard

According to virologist Lia van der Hoek, leader of a European research group on coronaviruses, it is almost impossible to get extra funding from the high pipos in Brussels. This while this European team has been researching various forms of the corona virus for several years now. For many years, Van der Hoek has been … Read more

For the first time .. World Health announces the scenes of the discovery of the first case of corona

02:04 PM Monday 13 April 2020 – Books – Ahmed Jumaa: Dr. John Jabbour, the representative of the World Health Organization in Egypt, revealed the scenes of the discovery of the first positive case of the emerging coronavirus in Egypt on February 14th. Jabbour said in a press conference held by the Information Agency today, … Read more

Coronavirus: pollen allergies or Covid-19?

In the midst of a coronavirus pandemic, allergy sufferers fear missing the symptoms of Covid-19, what are the differences? Should we continue to take treatment? Spring has arrived and with it an explosion of pollen. Allergy sufferers have itchy eyes again, runny nose, sometimes some people even develop asthma, in the midst of a coronavirus … Read more