Neoscope

Cases of the brain-eating "black fungus" found in COVID-19 survivors and patients in India are now popping up in Pakistan as well.

Black Fungus

Developments

"Black fungus" cases have made their way to Pakistan.

Deadly Brain-Eating Fungus Outbreak Spreads Beyond India

Officials in India have found dozens of dead bodies floating in the Ganges River over the past few days, likely a sign of its ongoing coronavirus surge.

Horrifying Outbreak

Villages don't have enough wood to cremate their dead.

Dozens of Bodies Found in Indian River

The Republic of Nauru announced that it's now vaccinated about 108 percent of its adult population against the coronavirus.

Rx/Medicines

That's gotta be a record, right?

Small Country Claims to Have Vaccinated 108 Percent of Population

Researchers were able to demonstrate that COVID-19 can lead to long-term erectile dysfunction, another sign that symptoms can last for a long time.

Soft Conclusion

Yet another sign that COVID-19 infection can leave longer lasting symptoms.

COVID Linked to Long-Term Erectile Dysfunction

A new gene therapy for SCID, also known as "bubble baby" disease, uses HIV to deliver healthy genes that replace mutated ones.

Unlikely Alliance

Genetics

A new experimental therapy uses HIV to treat "bubble boy disease."

Scientists Turned HIV Into a Life-Saving Gene Therapy

Doctors in India are battling a surprise wave of "black fungus" infections in coronavirus survivor's eyes, lungs, and brains.

Haywire Healthcare

Life-saving COVID-19 treatments might be linked to deadly fungal growth.

Doctors Alarmed by Outbreak of “Black Fungus” That Infects Patients’ Brains

An unlucky young woman was mistakenly given six doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Massa, Italy.

Nothing a Little Tylenol Can't Fix

She was injected with the entire vial — and, surprisingly, experienced no side effects.

Unfortunate Woman Mistakenly Got SIX Doses of COVID Vaccine

A doctor from a COVID task force to Brazil compared the country's horrible pandemic response to a "biological Fukushima."

"Biological Fukushima"

This is dark.

Doctor: Brazil’s Horrible COVID Response Is a “Biological Fukushima”

The US birthrate dropped for its sixth straight year, with a precipitous drop in December births linked to the start of the pandemic.

Baby Bust

The pandemic seems to have accelerated an already alarming trend.

The United States’ Birthrate Is Declining Rapidly

The Biden administration announced today that it supports the waiving of intellectual property (IP) protections for COVID-19 vaccines, as CNBC reports.

Release the Patents

"The best way to end the deadly global vaccine shortage is to enable more manufacturers to make vaccines."

White House Supports Waiving IP for COVID Vaccines, Sending Pharma Stocks Tumbling

The Canadian province of New Brunswick is tracking 48 cases of a mysterious new brain disease that has neurobiologists stumped, the BBC reports.

Brain Diseased

Neuroscience/Brain Science

The symptoms can be devastating.

A Mysterious Brain Disease Is Spreading in Canada

Exposure to air pollution seems to cause short-term cognitive defecits in older white men, according to an alarming new study.