Diseases and mutations 2024, September

Briton Kim De Atta suffers from a rare disease. She is allergic to wireless Internet and cellular networks. When a woman gets into the 3G coverage area, she begins to experience severe headaches

9-year-old Kaitlyn McCabe of Taunton, Massachusetts, suffers from a rare anomaly that occurs at a rate of one in a million

Rachel wakes up and drinks pure poison that burns her more than hot chili peppers. As it slowly trickles down her throat, she can feel her entire body blistering from the inside out. Later these blood wounds will start to itch

Scientists have found that using antibiotics at an early age dramatically increases the chances of getting allergic diseases in the future. New research can be found in EurekAlert

There are people for whom a normal shower can be a torment, warns La Vanguardia. Upon contact with water, they experience burning and itching, blistering

Experts from the UK believe that water is a dangerous source of allergies for millions of people around the world. After a series of extensive studies, British scientists have established that water has the ability to cause severe allergic reactions

British schoolgirl Jenny Frye was found hanging from a tree near her home. According to her parents, before that she complained of headache and constant fatigue, which, in her opinion, is associated with school Wi-Fi, writes Mirror

She wakes up and tries to drink a glass of water that looks like poison to her, stinging nettles that leave blisters in her larynx. And this, alas, is not only a sensation: in fact, contact with moisture leaves itchy red marks on her skin

21-year-old Christopher Wool independently, without a prescription, purchased the drug lamotrigine (used to treat epilepsy and bipolar disorders). According to media reports, he wanted to improve his well-being

Straight out of a sci-fi horror movie, a mysterious disease that causes abscesses, rashes, and acrid fibers under the skin may be linked to genetically modified organisms

Amber and Trent Johnson of Barnesville, Georgia with their five children are the largest family of dwarfs with achondroplasia (underdevelopment) of the limbs

American scientists have discovered a virus affecting the cognitive (cognitive) skills of healthy people, writes the British newspaper The Independent

Among those caught on the banks of the Iset and in the ponds of the Kalinovskiy forest park, the University scientists discovered an unusually colored male marsh frog

Progeria Most often, children who are sick with progeria do not live up to the age of 13, of course, there are exceptions and the child celebrates his twentieth birthday, but such cases are isolated

Renowned public health and medical sociologist Nicholas Christakis answers questions from Science. The scientist explains whether schools should be closed preventively to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, and explains how social distancing works and why it is needed

In one of the most densely populated countries in the world, a miracle of nature was born. The baby looked completely normal, except for one torso and two heads

40-year-old mother of two, Rezia Begam, from Bangladesh, has been suffering from so-called elephantiasis for 18 years, which has caused her leg to swell to an appalling size and weigh 132 pounds (60 kg)

4-year-old Bayezid Hossain looks like the tiny old man from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Because of congenital progeria (premature aging), both adults and children are afraid of him

The mysterious symptoms of facial tics and verbal explosions that afflicted 12 adolescent girls in the small community of Le Roy, New York State, have opened up new knowledge for researchers about this very rare type of stress disorder

Shocking news comes from Nigeria, where a woman gave birth to a creature that looks like a goat or a foal

19-year-old Rama Haruna from the Nigerian city of Cana suffers from a strange pathology: her body practically does not grow. It corresponds in size to the body of a six-month-old baby, and undeveloped limbs are unable to function

Five-year-old Karan Singh from India is considered to be the tallest child in the world. Several years ago, the boy officially got into the Guinness Book of Records for his height

The tallest man in the world - 35-year-old Turk Sultan Kösen met in Cairo (Egypt) with the smallest woman in the world - 24-year-old Indian Jyoti Amji. Kösen's height is 246.5 centimeters, and Amji's height is 62.8 centimeters

Karen Kacheny, 42, of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, has an unexplained food cravings for foods that are extremely unpalatable to the normal person

In China's Guangdong province, a 22-year-old student's lungs were found to contain a chicken bone that she inhaled 14 years ago. The Unilad website reports.As a child, a Chinese woman experienced an attack of severe coughing, which then became chronic

In the fall of 2016, American diplomats in Cuba began to experience hearing loss, dizziness and cerebral edema

In the early 30s, Soviet doctors faced an epidemic of a mysterious disease with a very high mortality rate in the Urals.In the spring of 1933, an epidemic of an unknown disease broke out in the Urals, with a huge mortality rate. The disease, which resembled angina in its first manifestations, led to the death of more than half of those infected

Shiloh Pepin from Maine (Portland, USA), who was born with legs fused together and became widely known in the press and on television, died of a cold that turned into pneumonia

In the second half of the last century, our planet was covered with a real "plague" - acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, AIDS for short. All world medicine turned out to be powerless against this disease

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, infectious disease specialist Viktor Maleev said that we will be able to contain COVID-19 if everyone takes precautions.Victor Maleev is a recognized expert in the field of epidemiology and clinic of infectious diseases with more than half a century of experience in this area

A boy lives in India with a rare genetic disorder called hypertrichosis: a person suffering from it has a thick layer of hair on the face and body, like in animals

The origin of the deadly immunodeficiency virus is one of the most burning mysteries of modern medicine. Let's try to shed light on the riddle of the origin of HIV and at least refute the most ridiculous versions

History knows a lot of strange phenomena that are difficult to give a scientific explanation. Today the editorial office of Interesting to know will tell you about the 5 most mysterious epidemics in the history of mankind

The human mind - very complex mechanism. And sometimes failures occur in it, which modern science is unable to explain

Sooner or later it will happen: an outbreak of a highly contagious, lethal infection will acquire epidemic proportions, and then spread to half the world. Nobody knows what this disease will be, but we will try to figure out what it might look like and what humanity is ready to oppose to it

A local mongrel in one of the cities of Ukraine gave birth to several normal puppies and "Little man". So at least the inhabitants who discovered the dog thought

Over the past year in California, five coyotes were seen in different places at once, which had blue eyes instead of the usual golden brown. According to scientists, this signals that such an unusual mutation has already spread very widely

Scientists from the University of Hong Kong have named the temperature at which the coronavirus is especially active. The research results are published on the medRxiv portal.According to researchers, the "favorite" for the coronavirus was a temperature of about four degrees above zero

The Ecocenter in Omsk called the birth of a two-headed python a symbol of good luck. It turned out to be the son of a green tree python, Aru, who appeared in this center six years ago. Moreover, this is his first offspring

The liquid created by Russian scientists is safe for humans and suitable for processing medical masks and spraying in the air.Cold plasma treated water can be a deadly weapon for bacteria, fungi and viruses. The authors of the development - a group of Russian scientists - suggest that it will be able to destroy the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19