The World Health Organisation has identified around 80 cases of monkeypox worldwide and around 50 other suspected infections. A leading doctor told Sky News that the UK is facing a "significant increase" over the next week. Monkeypox, which is linked to the now-eradicated smallpox virus, is endemic in parts of central and west Africa. UK... Continue reading
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a pandemic is the worldwide spread of a new disease. Pandemics happen when a new virus that spread between people emerge to infect people. Pneumonia of unknown cause was first detected in Wuhan China in 31st Dec 2019. Since then, the virus causing pneumonia has spread to at... Continue reading
The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a warning that COVID-19 in China could turn into a global health crisis. Now there is evidence that supports the fear since the COVID-19 outbreak has spread beyond China. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, says the opportunity is narrowing to contain the outbreak. He says it is important to... Continue reading
Coronavirus disease has recently been named COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO). The name comes from “corona”, “virus” and “disease” with 2019, the year when the disease emerged. The death toll from Covid-19 continues to rise. The number of reported deaths in China is over 1000. From the genetic analysis on the outbreak of... Continue reading
Coronavirus is a new strain of the respiratory virus that consists of a large family of viruses. The virus causes an illness that ranges from the common cold to more severe Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV).Coronavirus is the largest group of viruses that belong to the Nidovirales order, which... Continue reading
There are many PCR tests to detect the Measles virus and in this article we will talk about it. Measles is caused by measles virus which is single-stranded, negative sense enveloped RNA virus. It is well known to be highly contagious. It’s airborne but is spread also via direct contact with secretions. The only host... Continue reading
