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African swine fever has flared up in the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara killing tens of thousands of pigs.

Researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Zurich have determined what causes normal proteins to convert to a disease form. These researchers also believe they have found a way to block prions from becoming a disease.

Researchers built a sewage-handling robot that can detect coronavirus in wastewater 30 times faster than nonautomated large-scale systems. Commonly used viral concentration technique use filters and can take anywhere from six to eight hours to transform a couple dozen sewage specimens into samples that can then be tested for the presence of SARS-CoV-2. This automated protocol concentrates 24 samples in a 40-minute run.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the first machine learning-based Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) non-diagnostic screening device that identifies certain biomarkers that are indicative of some types of conditions, such as hypercoagulation (a condition causing blood to clot more easily than normal).

Hong Kong Health Officials are monitoring a human case of avian influenza A(H5N6) in Guangxi in southern China.

A new disease surveillance network in Africa is trying to stop the next pandemic before it happens. The network will be setting up a rapid real-time data sharing system.

A recent study shows monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and remdesivir, a small-molecule antiviral, are promising monotherapies for many viruses, including members of the genera Marburgvirus and Ebolavirus (family Filoviridae), and more recently, SARS-CoV-2.

This article suggests the use of pseudovirus instead of SARS-CoV-2 in antibody neutralization assays would allow these tests to be run in BSL-2 facilities instead of BSL-3 laboratories.

Per the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), 30 new cases of Lassa fever were recorded in seven states in one week.

New York and California are reporting new virus variants that might be more contagious than the original strain.