Omicron is no longer a “variant of concern”.

Dhe European epidemic center ECDC has downgraded the threat potential of the long-dominant Sars-CoV-2 variant Omicron: from a potentially dangerous “variant of concern” to a “variant of interest”. This is the second highest of three World Health Organization categories. This means that there are currently no longer any coronavirus variants with the highest threat level. […]

Breakthrough? Third HIV Cure After Stem Cell Transplantation – The Science

medicine After similar cases in Berlin and London, now the “Düsseldorf patient”: Once again, a special therapy has freed an HIV-infected person from the virus. Could the method be used widely? From dpa Feb 26, 2023 4:22 amReading time: 3 minutes Doctors from the University Hospital in Düsseldorf report the healing of a cancer patient […]

Lower Saxony: Corona incidence is 116.8 | NDR.de – News

Status: 02/26/2023 09:02 a.m The corona incidence has fallen again in Lower Saxony. The value is currently below the national average of 119.1. Further corona data for the state and your municipality can be found on this page. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) only had a slightly lower number again on Sunday Seven-day incidence of […]

Bird flu: 11-year-old child dies in Cambodia – second in 2023 | Health

Cambodia’s health minister announced that at least 12 people have been tested for the bird flu virus (subtype H5N1), following the death of an 11-year-old child last Wednesday. It is the first known case of transmission of this virus to humans in this country since 2014. The father of this child, who is part of […]