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By Shrey Banerjee
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By Nidhi Jacob An image highlighting distinctions between air pollution, the common cold, flu, and coronavirus and falsely attributing the symptoms of respiratory illnesses to the Pathology department at the All India Medical Association (AIIMS) has resurfaced on social media. BOOM reached out to Rajeev Maikhuri, the media coordinator at AIIMS, who confirmed that no such information was ever circulated by the medical institution. The text in the image reads, "Please note the differences: 1) Dry cough + sneeze = air pollution, 2) Cough + mucus + sneeze + runny nose = common cold, 3) Cough + muc...
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By Hera Rizwan Amid the emergence of a new coronavirus subvariant, JN.1, Indian authorities have become vigilant, and the scientific community is actively investigating this strain. According to reports, there are 2,669 active cases of the subvariant in the country, with 300 in Kerala, 13 in Karnataka, 12 in Tamil Nadu, 11 in Gujarat and 10 in Maharashtra, detected as of Thursday . The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is currently engaged in genome sequencing to better understand this emerging development. JN.1 has been designated by the World Health Organisation as a distinct "varian...
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By Nidhi Jacob COVID-19 cases are increasing in countries such as the United Kingdom, United States and Japan. The recent COVID sub-variant called 'Eris' is reportedly spreading in the UK. However, medical experts BOOM spoke to stressed that it is unlikely to cause a large wave in India. What is Eris & how is it affecting UK? Eris is the unofficial nickname given to the most recent version of omicron, it belongs to the recently seen recombinant XBB sub lineage. It’s official name is EG.5.1. Eris is now responsible for one in seven cases in the UK, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UK...
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By Hazel Gandhi
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By Hera Rizwan India reported its first two deaths due to the influenza virus H3N2, on March 10. From January 2 to March 5, 451 cases of H3N2 infection have been reported across the country, according to data shared by the Union health ministry. India witnessed a spike in influenza cases in the past few weeks, with people on social media claiming that H3N2 was spreading like Covid. Some users claimed that H3N2 was spreading like "wild fire". "India every year witnesses two peaks of seasonal influenza: one from Jan to March and the other in the post-monsoon season. The cases arising from season...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video showing Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates abruptly ending an interview after being accused of profiting off the pandemic by selling COVID-19 vaccines that caused "side effects and deaths", is being widely shared on the internet as a real. BOOM investigated the video, and found it to be deepfake - the audio was overlayed and the visuals were digitally altered with the use of machine learning. This was confirmed to us by Dr Dominic Lees, Deepfake researcher and Associate Professor of Filmmaking at the University of Reading, UK, who told as that a number of techniques - su...
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By The Conversation Shengjie Lai , University of Southampton and Andrew J Tatem , University of Southampton China stuck rigidly to a zero-COVID policy until December 2022. This included travel restrictions, mass testing and mandatory quarantines. The rapid lifting of this strategy led to a surge of COVID infections across the country. There have been concerns that the Chinese lunar new year travel in January may cause this wave of COVID to spread much further and faster, with significant numbers of hospital admissions and deaths. Lunar new year involves hundreds of millions of people travellin...
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By The Conversation Michael Baker , University of Otago ; David Durrheim , University of Newcastle ; Li Yang HSU , National University of Singapore , and Nick Wilson , University of Otago Imagine it is 2030. Doctors in a regional hospital in country X note an expanding cluster of individuals with severe respiratory disease. Rapid whole-genome sequencing identifies the disease-causing agent as a novel coronavirus. Epidemiological investigations suggest the virus is highly infectious, with most initial cases requiring hospitalisation. The episode bears a striking resemblance to the COVID outbrea...
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By BOOM Team Several European countries have sounded alert over the new Omicron subvariant that has caused a spike in Covid-19 cases in the US since the last month. On Friday, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said over 27% of Covid-19 cases in the United States were now caused by Omicron XBB.1.5, a highly contagious subvariant. In the last week of December 2022, the subvariant constituted over 40% of the Covid-19 cases in the US. Expressing concern over the new variant, Germany's health minister Karl Lauterbach said that Berlin was closely monitoring the situation. "Hopefully we g...
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