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What happens when flu meets Covid-19?
How seasonal viruses interact with the coronavirus is unknown – it may lessen or sharpen the pandemic – so flu vaccinations are vitalOptimists had hoped Covid-19 might not withstand the blistering heat of a British summer. However those hopes have faded: the virus staged a recent resurgence in Iran amid actual blistering temperatures, and has had no trouble persisting in sultry Singapore.But what happens to Covid-19, and us, when the rain and chill – and flu and sniffles – of autumn set in? Especially, how will the annual winter flu epidemic play out amid a Covid-19 pandemic?Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 19, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Debora MacKenzie Tags: Flu Coronavirus outbreak Vaccines and immunisation Infectious diseases Medical research Science Society Health Source Type: news
Will Warmer Weather Stop the Spread of the Coronavirus? Don ’t Count on It, Say Experts
As coronavirus continues to spread across the world, a simple solution has been repeated by some leaders: Warm summer temperatures will stop the outbreak in its tracks.
U.S. President Donald Trump floated the idea that by April the coronavirus problem would solve itself. He told a crowd at a Feb. 10 rally in New Hampshire: “You know, in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away, that’s true.”
In Southeast Asia, officials in Indonesia have offered the warm climate as the reason that no cases have been diagnosed there. “Indonesia’s air is not like the air in China that is su...
Source: TIME: Health - February 28, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Amy Gunia Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 onetime overnight Source Type: news
Association Study of HLA-DQB1*0602 Allele in Iranian Patients with Narcolepsy.
Abstract
Narcolepsy is a rare, disabling disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations and sleep paralysis. Several studies demonstrated its association with HLA-DQB1*0602 in various ethnic groups. Our study aimed to determine the prevalence of HLA-DQB1*0602 allele in Iranian patients with narcolepsy and assess its predictive parameters for diagnosing narcolepsy. In addition, car accidents and job problems were assessed among narcoleptic patients. We studied 44 narcoleptic patients, 30 patients with other types of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and 50 healthy ag...
Source: Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - October 1, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Geremew D, Rahimi-Golkhandan A, Sadeghniiat-Haghighi K, Shakiba Y, Khajeh-Mehrizi A, Ansaripour B, Izad M Tags: Iran J Allergy Asthma Immunol Source Type: research
Narcolepsy following COVID ‐19: A case report and review of potential mechanisms
Key Clinical MessageThe immune activation in COVID-19 may trigger narcolepsy in vulnerable patients. We suggest clinicians carefully evaluate patients with post-COVID fatigue and hypersomnia for primary sleep disorders, specifically narcolepsy.AbstractThe patient is a 33-year-old Iranian woman without a significant past medical history with the full range of narcolepsy symptoms that started within 2 weeks after her recovery from COVID-19. Sleep studies revealed increased sleep latency and three sleep-onset rapid eye movement events, compatible with a narcolepsy-cataplexy diagnosis.
Source: Clinical Case Reports - May 26, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Yazdani Roya,
Barzkar Farzaneh,
Almasi ‐Dooghaee Mostafa,
Shojaie Mahsa,
Zamani Babak Tags: CASE REPORT Source Type: research
World Health Organization Declares COVID-19 a ‘Pandemic.’ Here’s What That Means
The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11 declared COVID-19 a pandemic, pointing to the over 118,000 cases of the coronavirus illness in over 110 countries and territories around the world and the sustained risk of further global spread.
“This is not just a public health crisis, it is a crisis that will touch every sector,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, at a media briefing. “So every sector and every individual must be involved in the fights.”
An epidemic refers to an uptick in the spread of a disease within a specific community. By contrast, the WHO defines a pand...
Source: TIME: Health - March 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Holy Spider: serial-killer thriller that ’s profoundly compelling and intentionally horrifying
Source: The Telegraph : Swine Flu A H1N1 - January 19, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tim Robey Tags: topics:events/cannes-film-festival topics:places/iran structure:film editors:tim-robey storytype:review Source Type: news
Spanish Flu and the End of World War I in Southern Iran from 1917-1920.
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The Spanish Flu was one of the disasters in the history of Iran, especially Southern Iran, which led to the death of a significant number of people in Iran. It started on October 29, 1917, and lasted till 1920 - a disaster that we can claim changed the history. In one of the First World War battlefields in southern Iran in 1918, there was nothing left until the end of World War I and when the battle between Iranian warriors (especially people of Dashtestan and Tangestan in Bushehr, Arabs, and people of Bakhtiari in Khuzestan and people of Kazerun and Qashqai in Fars) and British forces had reached its pea...
Source: Archives of Iranian Medicine - January 1, 2021 Category: Middle East Health Authors: Golshani SA, Zohalinezhad ME, Taghrir MH, Ghasempoor S, Salehi A Tags: Arch Iran Med Source Type: research
Spanish Flu and the End of World War I in Southern Iran from 1917-1920
Arch Iran Med. 2021 Jan 1;24(1):78-83. doi: 10.34172/aim.2021.11.ABSTRACTThe Spanish Flu was one of the disasters in the history of Iran, especially Southern Iran, which led to the death of a significant number of people in Iran. It started on October 29, 1917, and lasted till 1920 - a disaster that we can claim changed the history. In one of the First World War battlefields in southern Iran in 1918, there was nothing left until the end of World War I and when the battle between Iranian warriors (especially people of Dashtestan and Tangestan in Bushehr, Arabs, and people of Bakhtiari in Khuzestan and people of Kazerun and ...
Source: Archives of Iranian Medicine - February 16, 2021 Category: Middle East Health Authors: Seyyed Alireza Golshani Mohammad Ebrahim Zohalinezhad Mohammad Hossein Taghrir Sedigheh Ghasempoor Alireza Salehi Source Type: research
Recombinant hemagglutinin of swine H1N1 influenza virus expression in the insect cells: Formulation in Montanide ISA71 adjuvant and the potency studies
CONCLUSION: To summarize, the results showed that the recombinant protein with the MontanideTM ISA- 71 adjuvant developed a more appropriate level of immunity than Alum adjuvant, so it might be used as a safe and reliable vaccine against H1N1 virus for further research.PMID:35317113 | PMC:PMC8917850 | DOI:10.22038/IJBMS.2021.57053.12716
Source: Cancer Control - March 23, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Sara Zahmati Morteza Taghizadeh Setareh Haghighat Reza Jalalirad Mehdi Mahdavi Source Type: research
Spanish Flu in Tehran from 1918 to 1920
This study aims to evaluate the importance of the history of local medicine in Tehran, the spread of Spanish flu, World War I, and presence of Russian, Ottoman, and British troops in Iran during the flu outbreak. The critical role of Britain in artificial famine, malnutrition, and drug embargo was assessed, as well.PMID:35128914 | DOI:10.34172/aim.2022.10
Source: Archives of Iranian Medicine - February 7, 2022 Category: Middle East Health Authors: Seyyed Alireza Golshani Mohammad Ebrahim Zohalinezhad Fatemeh Amoozegar Mojtaba Farjam Source Type: research
