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 16 days 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 21 days 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 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 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 3 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 4 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...
Source: Medical News -Tomato Flu Sep 06, 2022 5 months ago
Unscrupulous Indian reporters and media first started creating a story about an outbreak of a mysterious disease among children as early as June 2022 that they labelled as “Tomato Flu” when in reality it was nothing more than ordinary hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) disease, a viral infection that afflicts children.
Pictures like this was used to sensationalize the 'Tomato Fl...
Source: Medical News - Fatal Pneumonia Outbreak Sep 06, 2022 5 months ago
The mysterious fatal pneumonia disease outbreak that first claimed the life a doctor that was suspected of treating patient zero (A 70 year old women who was the third person to die from the disease ) and infected numerous other patients and healthcare workers at the Eva Peron hospital in Tucuman, Argentina is now spreading rapidly and according to an Argentinian media report has now caused ...
Source: Medical News - New Measles Strain Sep 05, 2022 5 months ago
While the world has been more engrossed in COVID-19, monkeypox, booster vaccines, the Ukraine-Russia war and the downfall of cryptocurrencies, no attention has been focused nor any aid and medical assistance been offered to the health authorities, physicians and hospitals in Zimbabwe that are facing an outbreak of a new deadly strain of measles that is causing the deaths of children at an exponent...
Source: Medical News - Novel Zoonotic Avian Influenza Virus A(H3N8) Sep 01, 2022 5 months ago
Researchers from the University of Hong Kong are warning that a current outbreak of a new zoonotic avian influenza virus among poultry and other birds in China and Hong Kong could lead to a serious human pandemic if surveillance and measures are not put into place soon.
Zoonotic and pandemic influenza continue to pose threats to global public health.
Typically, pandemics arise when...
Source: Medical News - Drug Resistant Tuberculosis In The COVID-19 Pandemic Aug 13, 2022 6 months ago
Scientists are warning that already with the current COVID-19 pandemic causing immune dysfunction in millions of people globally not to mention the possible effects of the inoculation campaigns on the human immune system, the emergence of new drug resistant genes in Tuberculosis (TB) is simply another global health crisis waiting to happen, if it has not already started.
Many who are immu...
Source: EBV-Multiple Sclerosis Jan 14, 2022 1 year ago
EBV-Multiple Sclerosis: A new study by led researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has discovered that the Epstein-Barr Virus could possibly be the leading cause of multiple sclerosis!
Multiple sclerosis or MS is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system of unknown etiology. It is a condition that can affect the brain and spinal cord, ca...
Source: Thailand Medical News - Salmonella infantis Nov 07, 2021 1 year ago
Its November 2021, almost coming to 3 years and 7 months, since America's top disease detectives noticed a rare and virulent strain of salmonella circulating in the food ecosystem primarily in poultry meat but even as entities like the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. CDC are aware of this dangerous pathogen circulating in the food supply chains, nothing is being done due to lobb...
Vaccines are basically meant to protect individuals against a disease but in some cases the things could go wrong and backfire especially when proper studies are not conducted and things are expedited over monetary concerns.
The WHO or World Health Organization finally admitted that a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad, a week after ...
Influenza: A new large population-based study led by the US CDC and in collaboration with numerous institutions has shown that acute cardiovascular events, especially heart failure and ischemic heart disease, were found to be common among patients hospitalized with influenza.
The researchers suggest that vaccination is particularly important among those with cardiovascular risk factors.
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TB Treatments: New protocols involving the drugs Bedaquiline and Delamanid for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) have shown early effectiveness in 85 percent of patients in a cohort that included many individuals with serious comorbidities that would have excluded them from clinical trials, according to the results of a new international study.
The clinical trial results, based on...
Source: Toxoplasma Gondii Aug 01, 2020 3 years ago
Toxoplasma Gondii: A new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine (UVA) indicates that more than two billion people are infected with a brain parasite spread by cats and contaminated meat, but most will never show symptoms and the research findings could have important implications for brain infections, neurodegenerative diseases and autoimmune disorders.
The study...
Meningitis: The US CDC is warning about the emergence of a new strain of antibiotic-resistant meningitis bacteria.
Neisseria meningitidis
A detailed analysis of meningococcus isolates from US health departments has identified a novel strain of ciprofloxacin-resistant and beta-lactamase–producing Neisseria meningitidis, scientists with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent...
Lyme Disease affects about 320,000 individuals in America each year and much more all over the world. The disease is caused by the spirochete bacteria: Borrelia burgdorferi which is transmitted by an infected tick bite. Typical symptoms can include arthritis, cardiac and neurological problems if left untreated. Clinical manifestations include fever, headache, fatigue, and a characte...
Lyme Disease: The Canadian Medical Association is warning doctors and the general public about unusual clinical manifestations of Lyme Disease and has published three articles in its journal CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) to better illustrate this new emerging symptoms and clinical manifestations.
Some of these diverse symptoms include heart abnormalities, atypical skin lesio...
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