Tag Archives: Pandemics

Podcast: Coronavirus hits tech and a chat with Cosmos’s Ann Druyan

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This week on the Engadget Podcast, we dive into the many ways the coronavirus is affecting the tech industry, all the while remembering to wash our hands and not touch our faces. It's not quite a pandemic yet, but there's some hope on the horizon, no...

Universal Flu Vaccine to End Seasonal Flu Shots

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Is the end of seasonal flu shots in sight? Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) discovered a way to induce...

First MERS Vaccine Works on Animals

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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or MERS has raised significant concern globally. As the world travelling and business deals has made distances shorter to travel. They have also played a part in...

Cuba Becomes First to End Mother-to-Baby HIV Transmission

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Every year 1.4 million women diagnosed with HIV become pregnant. Untreated, they have a 15-45% chance of transmitting the virus during pregnancy, labor or breastfeeding. The rate of syphilis...

Breakthrough Found for New Influenza Vaccine

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The flu season is over, but the next one is coming for sure. Each year the pharmaceutical industry tries to anticipate the next flu virus, but the vaccines are not always a match, like last year. Now...

MERS Virus: Egypt Reports First Case of MERS virus

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MERS virus now hits Egypt after Saudi Arabia. Egypt's Ministry of Health announced on Saturday that a 27 years old patient is being treated for pneumonia at a Cairo hospital. He is an Egyptian...

MERS Virus is on the Rise

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The MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) virus is an ailment of the respiratory system that was first detected in camels. How it got to be transferred to human beings remains unknown. The symptoms...