A detailed clinical description of two cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in France, published online in The Lancet today, suggests that the incubation period for the virus may be longer than previously thought, and longer quarantine periods may be required to rule...
The new novel coronavirus (nCoV), which is similar to the SARS, is spreading across the globe. The French Ministry of Health has just reported the first case of the virus in France. The 65 year old Frenchman was diagnosed with nCoV following a visit to the United Arab Emirates. He had an...
National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists studying an emerging coronavirus have found that a combination of two licensed antiviral drugs, ribavirin and interferon-alpha 2b, can stop the virus from replicating in laboratory-grown cells. These results suggest that the drug combination could...