Medical News -Brazil - Respiratory Diseases Surge - Amapa - Paraiba - Bahia May 31, 2023 6 days ago
Medical News: It getting more and more worrisome each day as reports come in about a deluge of respiratory infections sweeping across various states across Brazil especially in the Northern regions. It seems to date that only the smaller independent news agencies are reporting about the actual situations unfolding in Brazil which so far have been corroborated and validated as true.
https://www.por...
Drug Resistant Bacteria - Clouds May 14, 2023 23 days ago
Drug-Resistant Bacteria: A groundbreaking study by Canadian and French researchers unravels a dark, new reality that could alter our perception of the simple, benign act of looking up at the sky. The ominous clouds floating serenely in the heavens are now suspect carriers of drug-resistant bacteria, capable of traversing vast distances.
Scientists from Laval University in Quebec City and ...
Outbreak News - Taiwan - Enterovirus May 10, 2023 27 days ago
Outbreak News: Taiwan’s CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Center director, Dr Kuo Hung-Wei told media that country is facing a deluge of a variety of enterovirus strains that is starting to cause a strain on healthcare staff and facilities.
Accordingly, circulating strains of enteroviruses in the country includes the enterovirus A71, enterovirus D68, coxsackievirus A4, coxsackievirus A6, echo...
Outbreak News - Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Disease - Pakistan May 09, 2023 28 days ago
Outbreak News: Pakistan health authorities confirmed the emergence of the Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Disease in the city of Karachi after a male patient aged 28 years was tested positive for the disease on the 4th of May 2023 but died on the 5th of May 2023.
Pakistani Men And Their Favourite Past Time Indulgence - Goats!
Disease tracking and investigations are underway as it is belie...
Outbreak News - Diphtheria - Philippines May 03, 2023 1 month ago
Outbreak News: A deadly diphtheria outbreak has struck the Philippines, prompting a travel advisory from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/alert/diphtheria-philippines
In the first three months of 2023, Philippine health officials reported 32 cases of diphtheria, marking a staggering 700% increase compared to the same period in...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Infections Are Accelerating T Cell Immunosenescence In CMV Positive Individuals Apr 30, 2023 1 month ago
COVID-19 News: A groundbreaking study by the University of Cordoba-Spain and Reina Sofia University Hospital-Spain has revealed that SARS-CoV-2 infections in Cytomegalovirus or CMV-seropositive individuals are linked to accelerated T cell immunosenescence and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. This discovery has significant implications, considering the vast prevalence of both cyto...
Scabies - Permethrin Resistance Apr 25, 2023 1 month ago
Scabies, a highly contagious parasitic skin disease caused by the Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis mite, has plagued humanity for centuries. It affects people of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds, with an estimated 200 million cases reported globally each year.
The most common treatment for scabies, a topical insecticide called permethrin, has been the gold standard for decades. Howev...
Editorial: Even as the world continues to grapple with the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, a more sinister and dangerous threat is looming on the horizon. The increased reliance on biotechnology, coupled with the controversial practice of gain-of-function research, has created a potential breeding ground for a new and potentially deadlier pandemic.
This editorial explores the imminent...
Outbreak News - Tanzania Mar 19, 2023 3 months ago
A few days ago, various news and social media accounts were abuzz about a mysterious disease outbreak in Tanzania’s Northwest Kagera region that borders Uganda that has so far killed five people and infected another 2 who are still in critical condition.
https://www.africanews.com/amp/2023/03/17/tanzania-authorities-investigates-mysterious-illness-that-killed-five/
https://www.theeast...
H9N2 News: Before I even proceed, I have to confess..even I am getting confused keeping abreast with all the developments these days…H5N1 bird flu outbreak, H3N2 flu In India, H7N9 avian flu in camels In Mongolia, H1N1 flu in various parts of the world…etc!
Taiwan health authorities in the last few hours announced that a H9N2 bird flu outbreak has occurred on the island of K...
Outbreak News - India - Multiple Viral Infections Mar 13, 2023 3 months ago
Outbreak News: Reports are emerging that many parts of India are facing a simultaneous onslaught of various viral infections caused by pathogens like adenovirus, influenza A virus, Influenza B virus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), metapneumovirus, rhinovirus, common human coronaviruses, para-influenza virus and also SARS-CoV-2!
Local physicians and hospitals are reporting the rise of ...
RSV Virus News: A first study by scientists from Ricardo Gutiérrez Children’s Hospital, Buenos Aires-Argentina and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville-USA ash found that the the human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is rapidly mutating to evade vaccines!
The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) in child...
H5N1 News - Domestic Cats - Austria Mar 10, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 News: Health authorities and veterinary experts in Austria have reported that three domestic cats from the Noah's Ark animal shelter in the southern town of Graz tested positive for the H5N1 Avian Flu virus.
According to the H5N1 News coverages, a chicken in the same shelter had been found infected with the virus about 2 weeks ago, marking the first known case in a domestic bird ...
Outbreak News - Murray Valley Encephalitis Virus - Australia Mar 08, 2023 3 months ago
Outbreak News: The Murray Valley encephalitis virus (MVEV) a deadly a zoonotic flavivirus that can be spread by mosquitoes, other insects and animal vectors to humans has made a surprising comeback after an absence fo 49 years in Australia in the state of Victoria!
Since the first case was reported involving a woman in Buloke Shire, Victoria in late January 2023, a tot...
Nipah Virus - Bangladesh Mar 07, 2023 3 months ago
Nipah Virus: Bangladesh reported that the latest victim to die from a Nipah Virus infection in the country was a 25-year-old female who died on the 1st of March 2023. She had developed symptoms of cold and fever on the 7th of February and subsequently laboratory testing confirmed that she had contracted the Nipah virus.
https://www.risingbd.com/english/country/news/93952
Her husband was r...
H5N1 News: Bolivian government authorities have announced that about a dozen people could be possibly infected with the H5N1 Avian Flu virus as a result of handling infected birds and poultry.
Health officials from the Eastern province of Nor Chichas in Bolivia reported than about a dozen individuals from the town of Cotagaitilla in the Potosi District were possibly infected with the H5N1...
H3N2 News - India Outbreak Mar 06, 2023 3 months ago
H3N2 News: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has officially reported that the current mysterious respiratory disease affecting many locals across the country is due to the virus called Influenza A subtype H3N2.
https://twitter.com/ICMRDELHI/status/1631488076567687170
In the last 5 weeks there has been growing cases of individuals reporting contracting flu but with more seriou...
Measles - Kentucky-USA & South Africa Mar 05, 2023 3 months ago
Measles: The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC) in the last 24 hours issued a health alert to doctors, hospitals and also the general public about a confirmed measles case in an individual who attended a Christian gathering in Kentucky involving about 20,000 people, including participants from other US states and other countries.
https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2023/...
H5N1 News - South Kalimantan Indonesia Mar 04, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 News: The Indonesian Ministry of Health is investigating a suspected outbreak of H5N1 bird flu among local citizens in South Kalimantan after local authorities from the province reported that not only poultry in farms and markets were dying but a few people were stricken by a unknown respiratory disease with one already hospitalized due to severity.
https://en.antaranews.com/news/274533/scien...
H5N1 Avian Flu News - China Mar 02, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Health authorities in Jiangsu, an eastern province in China have confirmed that a 53-year woman has tested positive for bird flu after developing symptoms for a few days as a result of exposure to dead chickens in her farm.
https://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/cnnews/20230302/bkn-20230302113116802-0302_00952_001.html
According to Chinese health officials, the woman developed s...
H5N1 Avian Flu News - Chile Mar 02, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Many are speculating that there is a major coverup taking place in the region of Valparaíso in Chile as a result of intervention by certain International and Western health agencies and groups with vested interest in vaccine developments and manufacturing. Speculations are adrift that certain clandestine vaccine clinical trials are now being conducted in the vicinity du...
Zika Virus News - Mutating Mar 01, 2023 3 months ago
Zika Virus News: While we are awaiting confirmation from the Thai authorities if there is indeed a Zika virus crisis slowly unfolding in the country after Hungarian heath officials reported that two of its citizens contracted the Zika virus after visiting Thailand, new studies are emerging that the Zika virus is indeed mutating as a rapid rate!
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-zika-v...
Zika Virus News: Health authorities from Hungary have reported that two Hungarian nationals returning from Thailand tested positive for the Zika virus!
https://www.nnk.gov.hu/index.php/nnk-hirek/1891-ket-thaifoldon-jart-szemelynel-igazolt-tropusi-szunyogcsipessel-terjedo-zika-virus-fertozest-a-nemzeti-nepegeszsegugyi-kozpont
https://www.budapesttimes.hu/health/public-health-centre-two-cases-of-zi...
H5N1 Avian Flu News - Houseflies and Mosquitoes Feb 27, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: While current safety guidelines issued by the WHO and U.S. CDC are warning that people should not directly touch any dead wild birds, chickens or any other animals as a result of the H5N1 Avian Flu virus that is currently circulating around in many countries, many are unaware that houseflies and other insects such as mosquitoes, blow flies and beetles can also act as vectors f...
H5N1 Avian Flu News - Reassortant Strain Feb 27, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Forget about the more than 20 sub-lineages of the SARS-CoV-2 XBB variant that is predominant in many geolocations across the world as they are unlikely to drive disease severity except those in the vulnerable groups or about the rather isolated incident of a girl dying from the H5N1 Avian Flu virus in Cambodia, rather researchers are warning us that we should be more concerned...
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Below are summaries of latest about the H5N1 Avian Flu Threat.
Genome Sequencing Reveals That H5N1 Virus Found In Cambodia Belongs To Clade 2.3.2.1c.
It has been reported that genome sequencing of the H5N1 Avian Flu virus that killed a Cambodian girl and infected a few others belonged to the 2.3.2.1c. Clade that has been endemic in South-east Asia for the last ...
H5N1 Avian Flu News - Thailand's DDC On Bird Flu Alert Feb 25, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Thailand’s Department of Disease Control has issueed an alert about the H5N1 Avian Flu Disease in the last few hours following the death of an 11-year-old girl in neighboring Cambodia a few days ago from the bird flu virus.
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-h5n1-avian-flu-news-11-year-old-girl-dies-from-h5n1-avian-flu-virus-in-cambodia-s-prey-veng-province
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H5N1 Avian Flu News - Cambodia Find 12 More Cases Feb 24, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Cambodia health authorities announced to the media in the last few hours that 12 more individuals have been infected with the H5N1 Avian Flu Virus but are pending laboratory diagnostics results.
At the same time another 37 individuals who have been suspected of having also contracted the virus are also being quarantined pending further investigations.
All the i...
H5N1 Avian Flu News - Girl Dies In Cambodia Feb 23, 2023 3 months ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Cambodia’s Ministry of Health's Communicable Disease Control Department in the last few hours announced that a 11-year-old girl from the village of Roleang in Cambodia's southeast province of Prey Veng had died of H5N1 Avian Flu virus.
According to Cambodian health authorities, the girl fell ill on 16th February 2023 with the symptoms of a high temperatu...
Marburg Virus Outbreak - Real? Feb 20, 2023 4 months ago
Marburg Virus Outbreak: There are now lots of questions arising about the claimed Marburg Virus outbreak in Africa starting with the initial cases that were reported in Equatorial Guinea. The story was only released only by Reuters and that too initially to all news networks associated with the BBC’s trusted News Network of which Reuters is a key member!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/altern...
Measles News: Measles the disease caused by the enveloped RNA virus of the genus Morbillivirus within the family Paramyxoviridae is expected to cause numerous outbreaks globally in 2023 due to a few factors:
1)The SARS-CoV-2 virus that has infected almost two thirds of the global population and is still reinfecting many in constant onslaughts has not caused immune d...
Medical News - Norovirus Infections Rising Feb 19, 2023 4 months ago
The U.S CDC has issues warnings that norovirus infections are rising across the United States and urged people to take more safety precautions including frequent washing of hands, proper handling of foods, etc.
https://www.cdc.gov/surveillance/nrevss/norovirus/natl-trend.html
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Norovirus is a very contagious virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea. The resulting h...
Marburg Virus News - Prophylactics-Drugs-Therapeutics-Herbs-Phytochemicals Feb 14, 2023 4 months ago
Marburg Virus: With the announcement by WHO of a Marburg virus outbreak in Equatorial Guinea which is located in Central Africa that started just last week but has already left 9 dead and hundreds more possibly infected and with suspicions that the Marburg Virus has already spread to neighboring country Gabon, there is a dire need for researchers to start finding potential prophylactic and therape...
Marburg Virus Outbreak - Equatorial Guinea Feb 14, 2023 4 months ago
Marburg Virus: The WHO has convened an emergency meeting for today (14th February 2023) after it was declared in the last 24 hours by health authorities in Equatorial Guinea that a Marburg virus outbreak has been declared in the small country in the West Coast of Centra Africa.
As of the last hour, 9 people have died from the disease, 27 are in ICU due to hemorrhagic fever with another 27...
Outbreak News: International Experts, epidemiologists and scientist need to keep a close watch on the current developments taking place in Peru as reports show that there is a major health crisis brewing in the country with a population of 33.7 million people but with a very primitive public health infrastructure.
Monkeypox Crisis
Reports have already emerged that monkeypox or Mpox infect...
Health News: In the last 18 years while managing many other medical and health websites including one that is tied to only releasing medical or scientific based press releases, I have come to realize that in may cases, the public and masses are only informed of certain important health, medical or pandemic issues much later and in many cases, critical data is often known first to a small group of ...
Medical News - HCirV-1 - Human Circovirus 1 - Hepatitis Feb 08, 2023 4 months ago
Medical News: Governments, health authorities, WHO and also the mainstream media has been trying to conceal the debut of a new worrisome virus that is causing the unexplained hepatitis found many including in children the last few months.
Thailand Medical News had covered about the mysterious hepatitis occurrences in many children in 2022 in our previous news coverages. Those occurrences ...
COVID-19 News - Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Post COVID Feb 01, 2023 4 months ago
Medical Thailand: Researchers from the Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkhla University-Thailand have in a new study validated that there is an increased incidence of detecting pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia compared with that in the general population.
The study findings shockingly showed that the cumulative inc...
Norovirus News: The UK Health Safety Agency (UKHSA) has issued the latest report about norovirus infections in the country with a warning that there is a sudden unusual surge of norovirus infections in the country with cases soaring 37% higher than pre-pandemic average!
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-norovirus-and-rotavirus-surveillance-reports-2022-to-2023-season/national-norov...
Outbreak News: Avian Flu H5N6 Jan 12, 2023 5 months ago
Outbreak News: Scientist are warning that more sporadic cases of human infections of avian flu H5N6 can be expected in 2023 after cases emerged in Ecuador and China.
H5N6 is a subtype of the species Influenza A virus, often referred to as bird flu virus as it typically infects birds, chickens and other fowl. Infected birds shed the virus in their saliva, mucous, and feces.
The H5N6...
Strep A News - Australia - UK - Canada Jan 07, 2023 5 months ago
Strep A News: To date, although only 151 people have died from Strep A infections including 39 children in the United Kingdom in this ongoing Winter surge that started in late September 2022, more than 35,616 cases have already been recorded and a lot more are under investigation or pending laboratory reports.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ukhsa-update-on-scarlet-fever-and-invasive-group-a-st...
Strep A News: The UKHSA has admitted that the current outbreak of invasive Group A strep (iGAS) infections seems to be spiraling out of control after it found that there has been massive underreporting of actual strep A infections due to a variety of reasons including lack of proper testing capacities and facilities.
The UKHSA has admitted that since 12 September to December 11 2022, the ...
Medical News - Airborne Meliodosis Dec 21, 2022 6 months ago
Medical News: Researchers from Hong Kong Polytechnic University have discovered a new strain of Burkholderia pseudomallei or B. pseudomallei, the bacteria that causes Melioidosis.
What is worrisome is that this new bacterial genome sequence called ST-1996 is found to be airborne!
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1680677-20221220.htm
Typically, the bacteria is spread through cont...
Strep A News: Cases of invasive group A strep, a bacterial infection are reportedly increasing globally at a worrisome rate with countries like the United Kingdom, United States and Canada most likely to be hit badly.
Cases were initially reported in the United Kingdom a few weeks ago but since then, 19 children have died from the infection with another 185 children aged between one to 9 ...
Medical News - Pentademic Dec 13, 2022 6 months ago
Medical News: Tripledemic or the state of three simultaneous respiratory infections ie COVID-19, RSV infections and Influenza affecting communities and regions in is now “passe” or obsolete as the situation has now been superseded by a new phase in which the winter months coupled with an in increase in air population in certain countries is now contributing to the sudden rise of other ...
Virus News - Khosta-2 Sarbecovirus Dec 12, 2022 6 months ago
Virus News: Researchers from Washington State University-USA and Tulane University School of Medicine, Louisiana_USA are warning that the newly discovered Khosta-2 which belongs to the same family of sarbecoviruses as the SARS-CoV-2 virus, is not only able to infect human using the same receptors but will be resistant to all current vaccines and monoclonal therapeutics and will be more far more wo...
Measles News -South Africa Outbreak Dec 10, 2022 6 months ago
Measles News: The South African National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) is reporting a rise in measles cases in 4 of the 9 provinces in the country following a measles outbreak that was reported in the province of Limpopo in mid-October 2022.
https://www.nicd.ac.za/south-african-measles-outbreak-2022-measles-outbreak-in-four-provinces/
As of date, there has been a total of 137 la...
Virus News - Alongshan Virus (ALSV) Dec 08, 2022 6 months ago
Virus News: Researchers from the Institute of Virology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland have issued warnings about the discovery of the novel Alongshan Virus (ALSV) in ticks in Switzerland with possible implications that the virus could be now widespread not only in Switzerland but in many parts of Europe!
The Alongshan virus (ALSV) is a member of the unclassi...
COVID-19 News - Immunity Debt versus COVID-19 Induced Immunodeficiency Dec 04, 2022 6 months ago
COVID-19 News: Off late, there is much talk online about so called “Immunity Debt” leading to primarily children and also some adults contracting other pathogenic infections especially respiratory viral illnesses like influenza, RSV, Adenovirus and even other disease like measles, chicken pox etc.
The charlatans behind the concept of “Immunity Debt” claim lockdowns...
Health News - Haemophilus Influenza Type B (Hib) Outbreak In Canada Dec 03, 2022 6 months ago
Health News: Island Health also known as the Vancouver Island Health Authority, ie the publicly funded health care provider in the southwestern portion of the Canadian province of British Columbia has issued a warning about the outbreak of Haemophilus Influenza Type B (Hib) Disease in parts of Canada.
https://www.islandhealth.ca/sites/default/files/mho/newsletter/mho-newsletter-hib-outbreak.pdf
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Medical News - Strep A Outbreak In UK Dec 03, 2022 6 months ago
While COVID-19 Infections, Influenza and also RSV infections are plaguing the United Kingdom and children this time are the ones being badly infected, another worrying disease outbreak has been reported in the country.
British health officials issued a warning in the last 24 hours about the outbreak of a more serious Group A strep-related illness among children and youngsters after six ch...
Source: Medical News - New RSV Variants Nov 21, 2022 7 months ago
In early November, Thailand Medical News had called for various international research teams to look into the possibility of new respiratory syncytial virus or RSV variants emerging that could be causing anomalous manifestations in the current RSV surge that is affecting many countries globally especially the United States as there has not been any studies done in the last two years since the emer...
Source: Medical News - Fungal Pathogens Oct 27, 2022 7 months ago
The WHO or World Health Organization has issued a public warning about a list of fungal pathogens that are emerging to be a global health threat including many that are developing drug resistance.
For the first time, the WHO drew up a list of identified fungal pathogens that they claim are posing the greatest threat to human health with many already becoming increasingly drug resistant an...
Source: Medical News - New Pathogen Oct 25, 2022 7 months ago
Researchers from MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, School of Infection and Immunity – United Kingdom have identified a new pathogen that can evade the human host immune system, The new pathogen is hybrid virus comprising of fused viral particles from the RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) and the IAV (influenza A virus) viruses.
To date, it is already known that in...
Source: Medical News - Simian arteriviruses Oct 05, 2022 8 months ago
A new U.S. NIH sponsored study has shockingly found that a primate hemorrhagic fever-causing arterivirus from Africa has acquired the necessary mutations to cross over into the human species using the CD162 receptors for cellular entry.
It should be noted that the African continent is a hub for various emerging pathogens and diseases and in fact, one theory that has not been properly expl...
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