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Health News - Haemophilus Influenza Type B (Hib) Outbreak In Canada Dec 03, 2022 4 years 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 4 years 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 4 years 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 4 years 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 4 years 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 years 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 4 years 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 4 years 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 4 years 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 4 years 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 4 years 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 5 years 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 5 years 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 6 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...
