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Turkish university develops COVID-19 vaccine candidate
A drug and vaccine candidate that can also be used in the form of a protective spray against the novel coronavirus has been developed by Akdeniz University in Turkey's southern Antalya province, the university reported on April 17.
China Will Loom Large in Balkans Once Pandemic is Over
This central contradiction that has shaped the understanding and positioning towards China has been particularly visible when one focuses on China's presence in semi-peripheral regions around the world like the Western Balkans.
Russia registers world’s first Coronavirus Vaccine for Animals
The vaccine is estimated to last at least six months and can “prevent further mutations of the virus”
Scientists: Does Mutant Coronavirus Have Other Tricks Up a Sleeve?
The rapid rise in different parts of the world of deadly, more infectious coronavirus variants that share new mutations is leading scientists to ask a critical question - has the SARS-CoV-2 virus shown its best cards?
WHO Reveals Likely Source of Covid: Animals Not Lab Leak
A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is "extremely unlikely," according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press.
Bulgaria’s Leading Immunologist Hospitalized with Secondary Covid-19 Infection
Professor of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Andrey Chorbanov was admitted to hospital with COVID-19, reported "24 Hours".
Mathematician Petar Velkov posted the news on his personal Facebook account.
The head of the experimental immunology laboratory has been in hospital since Friday, his condition medium to severe. His lung scan showed serious results - bilateral pneumonia.
UK variant virus ‘may spreading rapidly in Turkey’
Findings from a study in Istanbul show that the coronavirus variant that has moved through the U.K. may now be spreading "rapidly" through Turkey.
A group of scientists, who examined the genome sequence of the COVID-19 virus in Istanbul, have reached significant findings in a laboratory research that has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic.
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Bulgarian Epidemiologist: Latent Morbidity Helps Virus Spread Like Fire
"We are racing against the virus all the time," said Prof. Yordanka Stoilova, Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Disaster Medicine at the Medical University of Plovdiv and Chief Coordinator of the Expert Council on Epidemiology in her comment on whether the public is ready for a new tightening of restrictive measures because of the spike in Covid-19morbidity. She pointed out:
Is Next Pandemic on Our Plate? Meat-Eating May Unleash Unknown Viruses
Demand for regular supplies of affordable meat will create future pandemics that will make Covid-19 pandemic look like a "dress rehearsal", scientists are warning.
Producing meat is creating the perfect breeding ground for diseases of the same kind to emerge, according to the South African academics.
Infectious Disease Specialist: At Least 2,5 M Bulgarians Have Had Covid-19
"People who have been exposed to Covid-19 in Bulgaria are many times more than the official statistics reports. The real number of people who have had the disease is at least 2.5 million,"Dr. Trifon Valkov from the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Sofia stated in the morning program of Nova TV.