We are creatures of habit and this is not the first pandemic humanity is going through so, Dr Nicholas Christakis predicts, we are going to experience another ‘roaring twenties’, just like after the Spanish flu of 1918. “Often a period of exuberant social Interaction.” Not newYale professor and social epidemiologist Christakis describes in his new … Read more
Until now it was largely a mystery why one gets seriously ill from the corona virus, while the other remains virtually without complaints. A new study sheds a little more light on the matter: there are believed to be eight strands of DNA that influence the course of Covid-19. The genetic sequences are more common … Read more
This week, the world’s second largest radio telescope suddenly collapsed. Drone images show how the cables holding the platform of the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico snap in place one by one. The telescope weighs 900 tons and the whole has a diameter of 300 meters. Hurricane Maria already caused considerable damage in 2017. … Read more
An American doctor, who was at work for the 251st day in a row, gave a corona patient in the hospital a comforting hug. The photo went around the world in recent days as a picture that is typical of the corona pandemic. Now the doctor at CNN tells his story. Chief physician Joseph Varon … Read more
AMSTERDAM (ANP) – The corona pandemic also affects the fight against HIV, the virus that can cause AIDS. Almost three quarters of all current HIV testing programs and more than half of all treatment programs have been seriously disrupted by corona, the Aidsfonds concluded. According to the fund, the number of HIV infections is increasing … Read more
BRASILIA (ANP / AFP) – Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro will not be vaccinated against Covid-19. But he stresses that the vaccines will be distributed immediately and administered when available. Bolsonaro said on social media that it is his right to refrain from vaccination. The country has now ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine from … Read more
Next month we can spot a special phenomenon in the night sky. Jupiter and Saturn, the two largest planets in our solar system, then line up for the eye. The last time we could actually observe was almost 800 years ago. It happens more often, about once every twenty years, but we usually can’t see … Read more
It seems unlikely that Harry and Meghan will return to the UK for any length of time. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have decided to share their Windsor home, Frogmore Cottage, with pregnant Princess Eugenie and her husband, according to British media. They would have moved in on Friday. The Duke of Sussex and … Read more
The seed of men infected with corona can be seriously affected. Not only is there much less seed present after Covid-19 – up to ten percent of what should be normal – it is also less mobile and even deformed. This comes from research by the Belgian Professor Gilbert Donders, writes Het Nieuwsblad. For the … Read more
The chapare virus spreads from humans to humans, researchers at the American CDC discovered. Only minor outbreaks of the deadly virus have been reported in Bolivia so far. The virus that resembles Ebola is thought to come from rats. The first case dates back to 2004, when a 22-year-old Bolivian farmer from Chapare province died … Read more