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A Deadly Hantavirus Can Spread Between Humans. Here's Why It's Not The Next COVID.

For many people, news of a virus outbreak on a cruise ship immediately brings back memories of COVID spreading when the Ruby ...

Hantavirus outbreak is not like COVID-19 pandemic, CDC says

Hantavirus is not a COVID-19 sequel. Infectious disease experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who refer ...

Hantavirus is not Covid-19, but ‘calm-mongering’ risks triggering post-Covid anxiety

Since the first sign of an outbreak, the reminders have come from government officials, health agencies and plenty of experts ...

Why hantavirus is not like COVID, according to infectious disease experts

Infectious disease experts have sought to reassure people that the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak poses very low risks to ...
PBS

What we know about the new 'cicada' COVID-19 variant

A new variant of COVID-19 is buzzing. Its official name is BA.3.2, but it's earned the nickname "cicada" because, analogous to the insect's pattern, it first appeared back in 2024, went dormant for a ...
Nature

At last, a pill that can prevent COVID after exposure to infected people

An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, according to trial results published today in the New England Journal of ...
Time

What to Know About Cicada, the New COVID Variant

Here's what to know about the reemergence of the COVID variant, Cicada. BA.3.2, nicknamed Cicada, first started infecting people in South Africa in late 2024, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...