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A case with prolonged headache after COVID-19 vaccination and later developed Bell's palsy
CONCLUSION: Reactivation of latent herpes virus has been suggested as one of the possible mechanisms underlying the phenomenon, but the causal pathophysiology related to the symptom needs further validation. Moreover, in the event of facial palsy post-vaccination, alternative diagnoses such as Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), Ramsey-Hunt syndrome, Lyme disease, trauma, central nervous system infection (CNS) infection, or stroke should also be considered.PMID:37198509
Source: Herpes - May 17, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Yi-Yang Hsiao Ling-Jun Liu Yo-Lin Lin Source Type: research

Viral diseases of the nervous system-Selected new and old viruses
Nervenarzt. 2023 Mar 21:1-8. doi: 10.1007/s00115-023-01452-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTViral diseases of the nervous system are ancient and poliomyelitis was described in Egypt as early as 2000 BC. They can cause a wide range of neurological symptoms, such as meningitis, encephalitis, meningoencephalitis, Guillain-Barré-like syndrome and stroke, often leaving mild to severe residuals. Depending on the pathogen, the symptoms appear quickly within hours, or lead to increasing chronic symptoms within 1 week or months. The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which was newly identified in January...
Source: Herpes - March 21, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Uta Meyding-Lamad é Eva Maria Craemer Source Type: research

Investigation of Neurological Complications after COVID-19 Vaccination: Report of the Clinical Scenarios and Review of the Literature
Vaccines (Basel). 2023 Feb 13;11(2):425. doi: 10.3390/vaccines11020425.ABSTRACTCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), broke out in 2019 and became a pandemic in 2020. Since then, vaccines have been approved to prevent severe illness. However, vaccines are associated with the risk of neurological complications ranging from mild to severe. Severe complications such as vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) associated with acute ischaemic stroke have been reported as rare complications post-COVID-19 vaccination. During the pandemic era, V...
Source: Herpes - February 28, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Wei-Ping Chen Ming-Hua Chen Shih-Ta Shang Yung-Hsi Kao Kuo-An Wu Wen-Fang Chiang Jenq-Shyong Chan Hann-Yeh Shyu Po-Jen Hsiao Source Type: research

EMA: No Bivalent-Stroke Link; Presley's Cause of Death 'Deferred'; Handshakes Return
(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require subscriptions. The European Medicines Agency said it has not seen any signal of a possible stroke risk related to the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent COVID-19 vaccine. (Reuters) Funds from pandemic...
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - January 19, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Worldwide vaccine inequality threatens to unleash the next COVID-19 variant
On a warm South African day in mid-November 2021, Dr. Angelique Coetzee examined a 29-year-old man complaining of extreme fatigue and severe headaches. The symptoms seemed more consistent with heat stroke than the sore throat and fever she had noticed in her patients with COVID-19. At the end of the day, after seeing several similar cases test positive for COVID-19, Dr. Coetzee, chair of the South African Medical Association, became convinced that something was amiss. Within a week, investigators determined that her patients were infected with a new variant possessing multiple mutations (McKeever,  2021), B.1.1.529 BA.1 or “Omicron”.
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - August 17, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Richard L. Oehler, Vivian R. Vega Tags: Perspective Source Type: research

Global Vaccine Inequality Threatens to Unleash the Next COVID-19 Variant
On a warm South African day in mid-November 2021, Dr. Angelique Coetzee examined a 29-year-old man complaining of extreme fatigue and severe headaches. The symptoms seemed more consistent with heat stroke than the sore throat and fever she had noticed in her COVID-19 patients. By day's end, after seeing several similar cases test positive for COVID-19, Dr. Coetzee, chair of the South African Medical Association, became convinced that something was amiss. Within a week, investigators determined that her patients were infected with a new variant possessing multiple mutations (McKeever 2021), B.1.1.529 BA.1, or Omicron.
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - August 17, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Richard L. Oehler, Vivian R. Vega Tags: Perspective Source Type: research

Rare Adverse Events Associated with BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech): A Review of Large-Scale, Controlled Surveillance Studies
In conclusion, this review has concisely summarized the current rare adverse events related and unrelated to BNT162b2, arguably for the first time in sufficient depth, to better communicate vaccine safety to the public.PMID:35891231 | DOI:10.3390/vaccines10071067
Source: Herpes - July 27, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Shin-Jie Yong Alice Halim Michael Halim Abbas Al Mutair Saad Alhumaid Jehad Al-Sihati Hawra Albayat Mohammed Alsaeed Mohammed Garout Reyouf Al Azmi Noor Aldakheel Abeer N Alshukairi Hani A Al Ali Adel A Almoumen Ali A Rabaan Source Type: research

Vaccinated Have Lower Heart, Stroke Risk From COVID
(MedPage Today) -- Full vaccination against COVID-19 was associated with a reduced risk of acute myocardial infarction (MI) and ischemic stroke as secondary complications of acute infection, a study from Korea showed. These cardiovascular events...
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - July 25, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news