by Michael McCarthy, University of Washington School of Medicine Genital and Oral Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 (HSV-1) Shedding Rates. All participants are included; those who completed only the first session are indicated by a dot for the second session. Twenty-eight participants did not have any genital shedding detected and 49 participants did not have...
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AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine reduces viral shedding when administered intranasally
by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. and one in the U.K. has found that administering the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine intranasally to infected hamsters and monkeys reduced viral loads in nasal swabs, suggesting reduced shedding. In their paper published in the journal Science...