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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

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

Only half of heart disease patients get a flu shot
(American College of Cardiology) People with heart disease are more likely to become seriously ill from the flu and other respiratory illnesses, including the coronavirus. Yet, new research finds that only half of Americans with a history of heart disease or stroke report getting an annual flu shot, despite widespread recommendations to do so. Rates of vaccination were even lower among Blacks and Hispanics, according to data being presented at the American College of Cardiology's 70th Annual Scientific Session.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - May 5, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news