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Mar 1, 2024 · During this time, you may still be able to spread the virus to others. Using precautions for the next 5 days can help reduce this risk. After this 5-day period, you are typically much less likely to be contagious. However, some people, especially people with weakened immune systems, can continue to spread the virus for a longer period of time.
Jan 29, 2023 · The virus causes severe outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fever, a condition that can damage the body's organ systems and cardiovascular system and that often includes severe bleeding.
- Sheila Mulrooney Eldred
May 7, 2024 · After four years of fighting about it, the World Health Organization has finally proclaimed that viruses, including the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID, can be spread through the air. The ...
Jan 24, 2024 · A variety of viral infections can affect humans, from the common cold to the flu. A low-grade fever is a symptom of many viral infections. But some viral infections, such as dengue fever, can ...
Mar 22, 2021 · RNA virus genomes such as those of influenza virus have higher mutation rates, giving rise to diverse viral genomic variants (quasispecies) in infected individuals 78, which may allow faster host ...
- Nancy H. L. Leung
- leungnan@hku.hk
- 2021
Mar 13, 2020 · Viruses are the most common biological entities on Earth. Experts estimate there are around 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them, and if they were all ...
Dec 19, 2023 · The virus most often spreads through people who have symptoms. But it is possible to pass it on without showing any signs. Some people who don't know they've been infected and never develop ...