New Corona variant with completely new symptoms

The flu epidemic has not suppressed Corona. The numbers are rising again, and after BA.5, the BQ.1 subvariant is now dominant. After a relatively quiet start to the winter, corona numbers are slowly but steadily beginning to rise again. But not only that, there’s a blowout to report at the top. The previously dominant BA.5 variant has been successfully ousted. Instead, the BQ.1 lines have “quickly picked up speed,” as molecular biologist Ulrich Elling reports on Twitter. He said that BA.5, together with variant daughter BF.7, now account for only…

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WHO: Rise in COVID cases in China casts doubt on the end of global emergency

Several World Health Organization scientists have indicated that the increase in COVID-19 cases in China raises doubts about the end of the global emergency. Experts have suggested that it may be too early to declare a global end to the pandemic emergency, the Guardian newspaper reported. “The question is whether you can talk about a post-pandemic when such a large part of the world is entering the second wave,” said virologist Marion Koopmans, a member of a WHO committee tasked with advising on the status of the coronavirus emergency. “It…

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394,000 new cases: Flu record in Austria

The flu wave has hit Austria particularly early and particularly hard this year. Most recently, an incidence for the first week of December was calculated at 4338. This corresponds to 394,000 new infections. The number of new infections in Vienna climbed to almost 34,000 last week. A record 25,200 cases of influenza or flu-like illness had already been reported in the first week of December. For all of Austria, the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) most recently calculated an incidence of 4338 such infections per 100,000 inhabitants. In…

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