Forget unpleasant swabs: New Covid-19 test analyses your SCREAMS for traces of the virus Dutch inventor Peter van Wees has developed a booth for Covid tests It is airlocked and people go in and shout or scream at their loudest Particles from exhaled air are then analysed based on size to detect Covid The test … Read more
Woman loses both her parents to Covid who died from virus just two weeks apart as she tells of ‘guilt’ at not being able to give them proper funeral Ray Scovell, 76, from Sandown, Isle of Wight, admitted to hospital on January 8 He passed away slightly over a week before his wife Rosemary, 73, … Read more
Grieving families last night said deaths had been wrongly certified as Covid-19. Demanding an inquiry, top medical experts and MPs also insisted they were ‘certain’ that too many fatalities were being blamed on the virus. One funeral director said it was ‘a national scandal’. The claims are part of a Daily Mail investigation that raises … Read more
It’s not just chlamydia koalas have to contend with: Bears are also being infected with a rapid-spreading AIDS-like virus that triggers cancer Koala retrovirus (KoRV) infected a koala egg or sperm cell 50,000 years ago This allows virus to not only spread throughout a koala but also to its offspring KoRV is now seen in every … Read more
Covid sufferer, 45, only realised she had been infected with the virus when large clumps of her hair started falling out Abby Read, 45, thought she avoided Covid-19 after her family caught the virus She was exhibiting none of the ordinary symptoms such as a cough or fatigue However, one of her daughters noticed Ms … Read more
MARCH 2020 Kate revealed she and Prince Charles had got ‘relatively close’ at the Prince’s Trust Awards on March 11 – Charles was diagnosed with coronavirus in mid-March. She said: ‘Around the 29/30 March, I came home came in and said [to Derek] ‘god you look ill.’ ‘He said he had a headache, numbness in his right hand, … Read more
Not now bird flu! Russia reports world’s first ever cases of H5N8 flu in humans – but says the virus hasn’t spread between people yet Russian officials diagnosed the human cases of the H5N8 bird flu virus The virus spread from birds to workers at a poultry plant in southern Russia Health officials said patients … Read more
The scientist who led the WHO’s Covid fact-finding mission to Wuhan has revealed the first evidence that the virus was circulating widely in China before Beijing alerted the world to its existence. Peter Embarek said his team have discovered there were at least 13 Covid variants in Wuhan in December last year, suggesting the virus … Read more
A scientist who led the WHO’s Covid fact-finding mission to Wuhan has revealed the first evidence that the virus was circulating widely in China before Beijing alerted the world. Peter Embarek said his team have discovered there were at least 13 Covid variants in Wuhan in December last year, suggesting the virus had been in … Read more
Elizabeth Day: I can’t stand these virus VIPs By Elizabeth Day for You Magazine Published: 00:02 GMT, 14 February 2021 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 14 February 2021 Styling: Holly Elgeti. Make-up: Nicky Weir using Hourglass Beauty. Hair: Alex Szabo at Carol Hayes using T3 Haircare. Dress, Mulberry. Jewellery, Daisy jewellery Perhaps it’s because there’s so … Read more