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APAC monitors hantavirus as Singapore isolates 2 from cruise ship

May 8, 2026

Singapore’s Communicable Diseases Agency on May 7 said that it isolated two residents for hantavirus testing after the individuals disembarked from an Atlantic cruise ship on May 2 and May 6, respectively. The measure comes in response to the cluster of cases from the cruise ship, MV Hondius, that has resulted in three deaths so far.

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BioWorld briefs for May 8, 2026.

Rendering of a key measles protein targeted by neutralizing human antibodies

First measles treatment advances as vaccination rates drop

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Scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology have identified and characterized human antibodies that neutralize the measles virus by blocking its entry...

Infensa Bioscience identifies new ASIC blockers

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Infensa Bioscience Pty Ltd. has patented new acid-sensing ion channel 1 (ASIC) blockers potentially useful for the treatment of stroke, among others.

Hantavirus is ‘sentinel’ more than acute pandemic threat

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News of eight infections and three deaths so far due to an emerging zoonotic virus has brought back unhappy memories of the early days of SARS-CoV-2. At a press...

Art concept for inflammation in the intestines

Kymera’s IRF5 degrader shows potential in IBD treatment

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At the recently concluded Digestive Disease Week, researchers from Kymera Therapeutics Inc. presented preclinical efficacy data on KT-579, a selective oral IRF5...