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Remembering the 1986 Kangaroos A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size A few days ago, as I was aimlessly flicking TV channels, I came across a replay of the first Test of the 1986 ‘Unbeatables’ Kangaroo tour. I was sucked in and enthralled. After 80 minutes that flew by, I left in a much better mood than I arrived. Thirty-five years ago, the once every four years Kangaroo tour of Great Britain was an important part of the rugby league landscape and the pinnacle experience for our representative players.

The coronavirus variants causing panic around the world may be starting in people with weak immune systems who spend weeks or months battling the virus, scientists have warned.  Doctors in the US revealed a Covid strain living in an immunosuppressed patient for 150 days changed so much that they could find 50 differences in its genetic code. These changes, which happen randomly as the virus reproduces in order to spread, are what can drive changes in its shape which can affect the way the virus functions. Fifty per cent of the alterations in the US patient occurred on the virus's spike prote...

At first glance, the results reported on Friday from the long-awaited trial of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine might have seemed disappointing. Its overall efficacy - the ability to prevent moderate and severe disease - was reported at 72 percent in the United States, 66 percent in Latin American countries and 57 percent in South Africa. Those figures appear far below the high bar set by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, the first two vaccines authorized for emergency use in the United States, which reported overall efficacy from 94 to 95 percent. But Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation's leadin...

Among the 100 million people around the world who have battled coronavirus infections, scientists are turning to the case of a 45-year-old COVID-19 patient in Boston to understand how the virus is able to outwit humans. During his 154-day illness — one of the longest on record — the patient’s body became a crucible of riotous viral mutation. He offered the world one of the first sightings of a key mutation in the virus’ spike protein that set off alarm bells when it was later found in strains in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil. In the U.K. strain, the genetic change known ...

Dangerous new coronavirus strains may incubate in COVID-19's sickest Melissa Healy © (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times) A nurse brings medication to a COVID-19 patient in an hospital intensive care unit. Patients who remain sick for months can become incubators of dangerous new coronavirus strains. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times) Among the 100 million people around the world who have battled coronavirus infections, scientists are turning to the case of a 45-year-old COVID-19 patient in Boston to understand how the virus is able to outwit humans. During his 154-day illness �...