What are Non-Communicable Diseases? Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) are a group of chronic, non-infectious diseases which mainly include heart diseases, lung diseases, diabetes and cancer and many ...

A new method that can rapidly determine whether a virus is infectious or non-infectious could revolutionize the response to future pandemics, researchers report. A new method that can rapidly ...

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The gold-standard method for detecting viruses is based on reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). But this tends to be time-consuming and expensive, and its high sensitivity can ...

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Infectious diseases that do not primarily affect the gastrointestinal tract can cause severe diarrhea. The pathogenesis of this kind of diarrhea includes cytokine action, intestinal inflammation, ...

Although a painful sore throat could indicate strep throat, you may actually have another condition, like the flu or tonsillitis. Strep throat is an infection caused by the group A Streptococcus ...