Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc, University of Glasgow COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic due to the SARS-CoV 2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome) viral strain has posed a high concern worldwide. This is because of the associated high mortality and the devising of effective treatment strategies. It has been nothing short of devastating at the global level leading […]
Akshita Kumar,M.Sc. Biochemistry The therapeutic function of helminths in the modulation and/or deregulation of immune responses in COVID-19 patients has recently been a contentious topic. Richard Bradbury (School of Health and Life Sciences, Federation University, Berwick, Victoria, Australia) and his colleagues (Bradbury et al. 2020) initially proposed that helminths might inadvertently cause severe COVID-19 infections […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University, Kolkata There is currently no evidence of widespread transmission of SARS CoV-2 among wild animals, but recently, a wild American mink in Utah has tested positive for the virus — the first wild animal found to be infected with the Coronavirus, according to the researchers. According to the U.S. Department of […]
