Nigeria: Seven Deaths Are From Malaria, Typhoid Not Strange Disease - Kano Govt
[Leadership] Kano State Ministry of Health has dispelled reports of an outbreak of a strange illness in Gundutse village of Kura local government area. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 18, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Malaria Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
New Zealand Clinical Laboratories to Undergo Health and Safety Checks after Workers Contract Typhoid, Others Exposed to Chemicals
This comes on top of months of strikes by NZ medical laboratory workers seeking fair pay and safe working conditions Te Whatu Ora (aka, Health New Zealand, the country’s publicly funded healthcare system) recently ordered health and safety checks at multiple clinical laboratories in 18 districts across the country. This action is the result of […]
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Source: Dark Daily - March 15, 2024 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jillia Schlingman Tags: Compliance, Legal, and Malpractice International Laboratory News Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Resources anatomic pathology Apex Awanui Brian Raill Canterbury Health Laboratories CHL clinical la Source Type: news
A deadly viral illness is exploding in West Africa. Researchers are scrambling to figure out why
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Irrua, Nigeria, and Kenema, Sierra Leone—
Sitting on a bench outside the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) in Edo state in southwestern Nigeria in September 2023, Muhammed Luqman Dagana recounted his ordeal earlier in the year with Lassa fever, a deadly hemorrhagic disease of West Africa. At first the 33-year-old wasn’t alarmed—his fever, headache, body aches, and cough were innocuous enough. A doctor at his local clinic gave him antibiotics for typhoid fever and antimalarial drugs. But his symptoms persisted, so he tried anoth...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 22, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Disaster after disaster: the outbreak of infectious diseases in Pakistan in the wake of 2022 floods - Alied M, Salam A, Sediqi SM, Kwaah PA, Tran L, Huy NT.
In June 2022, Pakistan witnessed catastrophic floods, affecting millions of people. The ensuing epidemics of cholera, cryptosporidiosis, rotavirus infections, generalized diarrhoea, typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, as well as the frequency of vector-borne d... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
Tomato Juice May Help Kill Off the Typhoid Bacteria
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 31, 2024 -- The bacteria behind typhoid, a major killer of children in the developing world, could be vulnerable to something as simple as tomato juice, new research suggests.
Typhoid is caused by the Salmonella Typhi bacterium, and... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - January 31, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Single Dose of New Typhoid Vaccine Protects Kids Long-Term
FRIDAY, Jan. 26, 2024 -- While largely eliminated in more affluent nations, typhoid remains a deadly scourge in developing countries, killing more than 110,000 children every year.
Children in endemic areas -- mainly sub-Saharan Africa and... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - January 26, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
When Should We Consider A Rickettsial Disease?
Discussion
Rickettsioses are “small, obligate intracellular, gram-negative, aerobic coccobacillary α-proeobacteria” from the genuses Rickettsia, Anaplasma, Coxiella, Ehrlichia, and Orientia genuses. Often they cause limited health problems but can cause severe disease and death. They present with a fever and other non-specific signs and symptoms, usually with a rash and lymphadenopathy. Other problems can include:
Cardiac – endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis
Gastrointestinal – abdominal pain, acute abdomen, cholecystitis, hepatitis, pancreatitis
Heme/Lymph – hemophagocytosis, lymph...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - December 18, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Sickly sweet: how our sugar-coated cells helped humanity turn illness into evolution
The molecules that cover our cells have interacted over the ages with our environment and the diseases that plague us – and in the process shaped our progressAccording to the latest estimates, Covid-19 may be responsible for more than18 million deaths worldwide. While infectious diseases like this have devastated humanity, it may be wrong to assume they are always antithetical to our survival and flourishing as a species. Otherwise, why would ancient pathogens such as malaria (of thefalciparumtype), cholera, typhoid, measles and influenza A persist as human-only diseases – and why have we not evolved immunity to them?T...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 10, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Mark Honigsbaum Tags: Immunology Biochemistry and molecular biology Medical research Science Evolution Source Type: news
Study identifies countries vulnerable to extensively drug-resistant typhoid
Yale School of Public Health researchers examined travel and transmission data to help predict future outbreaks of a resistant strain that emerged in Pakistan. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - November 9, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
How Old Do You Have to Be To Receive Yellow Fever Vaccine?
Discussion
In the United States, Yellow Fever (YF) is rare and usually due to traveler’s coming to the US from Africa (34 countries) or South America (13 countries, see maps here) This wasn’t always true. There were numerous outbreaks in the past few centuries. However, after the Spanish-American War, a YF commission was sent to Cuba that proved YF was mosquito-borne and 1 year later major improvement was seen due to a multi-pronged mosquito control program.
“In May 1900, the U.S. Army,…formed the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission to gather data in Cuba that might inspire improvements in the publi...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - October 9, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
El Ni ño Poses a Major Health Risk El Ni ño Poses a Major Health Risk
The weather phenomenon, which is accentuated by climate change, can promote malnutrition, cholera, typhoid fever, and even gender-based violence.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - September 14, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
A New Age of Water is Dawning
We’re living in a pivotal moment in history, on the cusp of either sinking into a dark period of growing poverty, accelerating ecological destruction, and worsening conflict, or moving forward to a new age of equity, sustainability, and stewardship of the only planet in the universe where we know life exists. I believe a positive future is not only possible, but inevitable, but solving our current crises and moving along the path to that desired future will require new, concerted, and sustained efforts.
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Nothing better exemplifies both the threat and the promise facing ...
Source: TIME: Science - August 3, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Peter H. Gleick Tags: Uncategorized climate change Excerpt freelance Source Type: news
Climate Change Is Making Us Sick, Says WHO Envoy
The World Health Organization says round 7 million people die prematurely each year due to air pollution. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPSBy Busani BafanaBULAWAYO, Aug 2 2023 (IPS) Climate change is making us sick. It has become urgent to build resilient health systems to secure humanity’s well-being, says the special envoy for climate change and health of the World Health Organization (WHO).
“Climate change is unquestionably affecting our health every day,” says Vanessa Kerry– a renowned global health expert and medical doctor – who was appointed the WHO Director-General’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Busani Bafana Tags: Climate Action Climate Change Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news
A Shot in the Arm Can Prevent Cervical Cancer
Afshan Bhurgri, a cancer survivor, advises women to listen to their bodies and be aware of the symptoms of cervical cancer. Credit: Zofeen Ebrahim/IPSBy Zofeen EbrahimKARACHI, Jul 26 2023 (IPS) “Listen to your body, and if there is anything strange happening, do not ignore it,” is the advice of 57-year-old Afshan Bhurgri, a cancer survivor.
Eight years ago, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer at a time when she was “in a good place” in life. Her kids were grown up, and she had more time to herself. A fitness freak, the schoolteacher’s daily routine included going to the gym daily. “I joined a creative writin...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 26, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Zofeen Ebrahim Tags: Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations Women's Health Education Cannot Wait (ECW) IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
