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Vaccine researchers are trying new tacks in an unprecedented effort to recruit the tens of thousands of healthy volunteers needed to finish testing coronavirus shots in late stages of development. Quickly lining up all the subjects for so many studies at the same time poses several challenges, creating competition among companies. Given the...

Vaccine researchers are trying new tacks in an unprecedented effort to recruit the tens of thousands of healthy volunteers needed to finish testing coronavirus shots in late stages of development. Quickly lining up all the subjects for so many studies at the same time poses several challenges, creating competition among companies. Given the...

Justin Paget | Getty ImagesChildren diagnosed with Covid-19 pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome, or PMIS, may develop new neurological problems without any of the respiratory issues commonly associated with the virus, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers examined 27 children with Covid-19 PMIS, who were previously healthy, between March 1…

H1N1 swine flu that caused a pandemic in 2009. G4 now shows "all the essential hallmarks of a candidate pandemic virus," said the study, published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).But Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University's public health school, warned the public not to "freak out.""Our…

Researchers in China have identified a new virus in pigs.The G4 virus has the hallmarks of a "pandemic virus" wrote the researchers.Experts say there is no imminent risk of a new pandemic.A new flu virus found in Chinese pigs has become more infectious to humans and needs to be watched closely in case it becomes…