Doctor recommends one of the first things you should always do when you return home
You could be putting yourself at risk of viruses, bacteria or parasites without following this basic rule of hygiene. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - February 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Proven Vector Control Interventions Needed to Stem Malaria Infections in Africa
Rwanda is using drone technology as an effective and innovative way of eradicating malaria in breeding sites. Credit: Aimable Twahirwa/IPSBy Aimable TwahirwaKIGALI, Feb 8 2024 (IPS) Experts recommend that the current prevention of malaria in highly endemic countries in Africa should integrate “locally appropriate” control measures to cope with the highest burden of mosquito-borne disease on the continent.
The latest 2023 World Malaria Report shows that the life-threatening disease remains a significant public health challenge, with both malaria incidence and mortality higher now than they were before the start...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Aimable Twahirwa Tags: Africa Climate Action Climate Change Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Malaria Source Type: news
Punctual Proteins Aid Parasites
A protein’s timely appearance is crucial for Toxoplasma gondii’s unique replication cycle. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - February 1, 2024 Category: Science Tags: News News & Opinion Source Type: news
How a Parasite Excites the Brain
Tapeworm larvae may cause seizures by releasing excitatory amino acids into the brain. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - February 1, 2024 Category: Science Tags: Magazine Issue Source Type: news
British Army is defeated... by diarrhoea! Parasite sickens 172 soldiers stationed in Kenya
Some 172 soldiers became ill at the Nanyuki barracks between February and April 2022 - almost a fifth of the 1,200 troops active there at the time. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What is the Differential Diagnosis of Normal Eye Crusts or Rheum?
Discussion
Sleep crusts go by lots of names including “sleepies,” “sleepers,” “eye goop,” “eye sand,” and many other names. Rheum is the medical term. Sleep crusts are common. The sandman from folklore, is said to sprinkle magical sand into people’s eyes to encourage sleep and wonderful dreams.
Crusts are composed of mucous, oil, skin cells, and dust/debris that is all a normal part of normal tear production and protection of the eye. While awake, blinking helps to clear this from the eye and move it to the nasolacrimal duct. This does not occur during sleep and there...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - January 29, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Planning a summer holiday in Croatia? Warning over must-visit hotspot after health chiefs spot a spike in travellers being sickened by a diarrhoea-causing parasite that lurks in swimming pools
Nearly two-dozen Germans who travelled to Croatia in 2023 were struck down with cryptosporidium. German health chiefs were spooked by the unusually high rates of the illness. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cameroon Starts World ’ s First Malaria Vaccine Program for Children
Cameroon will be the first country to routinely give children a new malaria vaccine as the shots are rolled out in Africa.
The campaign due to start Monday was described by officials as a milestone in the decades-long effort to curb the mosquito-spread disease on the continent, which accounts for 95% of the world’s malaria deaths.
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“The vaccination will save lives. It will provide major relief to families and the country’s health system,” said Aurelia Nguyen, chief program officer at the Gavi vaccines alliance, which is helping Cameroon secure the s...
Source: TIME: Health - January 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized wire Source Type: news
Predators and Prey: Subverting Liberal and Populist Institutions
Yves here. Since this post contains some graphic details about parasites, you might not want to read it before a meal. Nevertheless, it describes an effective and therefore widely-used method for bending institutions to the will of outside parties. But there is a chicken and egg problem: did this…#juancoles #informedcomment #tedswedenburg #palestine #israel #gaza #participate #gazaconflict #joelgordon #gazastrip (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A new therapy effective against drug-sensitive and resistant parasites
A novel combination therapy developed by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine can help fight the drug-resistant cases of the tickborne illness babesiosis. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - January 5, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Ukrainian scientists tally the grave environmental consequences of the Kakhovka Dam disaster
Kyiv and Odesa, Ukraine—
In the predawn hours of 6 June 2023, a pair of explosions rocked the Kakhovka Dam, a 3-kilometer-long hydropower facility on the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine. Waking up that morning to the unfolding catastrophe, “I couldn’t believe it,” recalls Volodymyr Osadchyi, director of the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute (UHMI). “I thought it had to be fake news.” But footage captured by a Ukrainian military drone showed water from one of Europe’s largest reservoirs gushing through a gaping breach in the dam.
Over the next 4 days, 18 cubic kilometers of water surged downs...
Source: ScienceNOW - January 4, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Major Medical Journal Reverses Itself On ‘Research Parasites’ As NIH Beefs Up Data Sharing Rules
Research parasites take note: the New England Journal of Medicine is now on your side, as is the US government. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 1, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Steven Salzberg, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation standard Source Type: news
NEJM Reverses Itself On “Research Parasites” As NIH Beefs Up Data Sharing Rules
Research parasites take note: the New England Journal of Medicine is now on your side, as is the US government. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 1, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Steven Salzberg, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation standard Source Type: news
