Diseases and mutations 2024, September

In India, a 12-year-old boy was found suffering from a rare disease. Mahendra Ahirwar has very weak neck muscles, which is why he cannot keep his head straight - she constantly falls on the chest, then on the right shoulder

When the Chinese farmer Fu Haven took a closer look at the purchased duck, he was very surprised: instead of webbed duck legs, the bird had chicken legs

Some people do so strange things with their bodies that you doubt that they are all right with their heads.Bodybuilder Valdir Segato from São Paulo (Brazil), who is now in his 50s, initially pumped muscles in the usual way, but was always unhappy with the result

In the course of history, the damage done by these tiny insects has determined the fate of empires, paralyzed economic activity and foretold the outcome of decisive wars. On their way, mosquitoes have killed nearly half of humanity. Between 1980 and 2010, malaria killed between 1,200,000 and 2,780,000 people annually

The inhabitants of an Indian village worship a six-year-old boy as the embodiment of a Hindu deity. And the thing is that due to illness, his forehead and lower eyelids have become deformed

It was Yersinia pestis that became the "ancestor" of the deadly pandemics that wiped out half the world. In the Samara region, the oldest bacterium of the bubonic plague was found - Yersinia pestis. It was discovered during the study of a 3800-year-old burial ground near the village of Mikhailovsky

Despite the tremendous progress in medicine over the past century, researchers are still faced with many unsolved problems that require a logical explanation

Alushta fishermen discovered a strange marine inhabitant last Saturday. Pulling out the nets, abandoned in the area of the Kapsel Bay, the fishermen saw in them a marvelous fish of bright red color

It seems difficult to think of a vessel less suitable for all sorts of garbage than a human head. Be that as it may, doctors have repeatedly removed the strangest and most unusual things from the human skull

The war between one woman and all the residents has been going on for the third year. It all started right after the move of 54-year-old Irina S. From the first days after settling in, the woman began to behave inappropriately. She likes to make noise at night

A woman with a pig's nose instead of a nose was born in Iceland on February 6, 1794. Her name was Griselle Stevens and, despite her physical disability, she was able to successfully get married and give birth to a full-fledged child

This mysterious, recently discovered disease affects mainly young women and is very difficult to recognize. The first cases appeared in Philadelphia, these patients claimed that their brains were “like on fire.” Illness begins with personality changes

Three twin brothers Ramirez from the Dominican Republic were very much surprised that they began to grow real and at the same time very beautiful female breasts

16-year-old Chinese woman Nana was not afraid to show herself to the world. The girl is sick with a rare disease called hirsutism - male-pattern excess hair growth

In Pakistan, three sisters and their brother were born with a very rare genetic disorder, which makes sunlight deadly for them. Due to ultraviolet light, their skin begins to almost melt and becomes covered with sores

According to the researchers, the popular Ice Bucket Challenge, or rather, the funds collected with its help, helped to unravel one of the secrets of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - diseases afflicted by scientist Stephen Hawking

This mysterious and terrible disease is so little studied that it does not even have an official scientific name. In medicine, it is known only as "nodding disease" or "nodding disease"

This is a strange, unpleasant and surprisingly common occurrence

A distance of two meters does not guarantee that a person will not be infected with COVID-19. When a sick person coughs and sneezes, viral particles can be carried up to eight meters. This conclusion was made in a scientific article published by Lydia Bourouiba of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Journal of the American Medical Association

Recently, a group of scientists issued a statement that up to 40 percent of people are infected with brain parasites that can affect human behavior

We discuss with an expert which products are really effective for disinfection.In recent days, antiseptics have disappeared from both store shelves and pharmacies. But the deficit is not a hindrance to our citizens. In the hands of the most inventive, the WHO instruction for health workers on how to make a sanitary product on their own fell into the hands of the most inventive, and now, in stores at the checkout, people share their best practices in combating coronavirus

Against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, medical masks have become relevant and even a mandatory attribute for going out. In Ukraine and the Czech Republic, without them, it is forbidden even to travel by public transport.- Salik

The most common causes of death in people under the age of 70 are heart failure, cancer, lung disease and diabetes

Medical practice can be the perfect source of inspiration for horror movies. Medicine can tell about real "walking dead", werewolves or own killer arm

Doctors from a clinic in Shanghai saved the life of a 22-year-old patient by removing an impressive section of the colon about 76 centimeters long and weighing 13 kilograms

When the world first faced influenza epidemics in 2000, after which people began to infect the Ebola virus and many bacteria unknown to science, many independent researchers began to talk about their artificial origin

A century ago, the 1918 influenza pandemic infected a third of the world's population and killed 50 to 100 million people. What can a flu like this do today? Bill Gates and health experts asked this question

Genetically modified mosquitoes, created to fight Dengue and other diseases, could not only fail to cope with their task, but also caused the Zika epidemic that many countries are facing today

The World Health Organization has declared the Zika virus a global threat. At Russian airports, control has already been introduced to prevent the penetration of the disease into the territory of our country

Russian virologists have revealed the future of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes pneumonia. In their opinion, it will not be possible to completely defeat the virus, it will manifest itself seasonally, like the flu. Izvestia writes about this

Not much is known about the outbreak of an unknown disease in central China's Hubei province this winter. Doctors believe the disease, which affected 59 people, could be caused by the coronavirus, the family of viruses that caused the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003

To prevent an epidemic, it would be worth shaving everyone.Getting rid of facial hair is recommended by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Like, health is more important than show-off and fashion trends.- Salik.bizThe recommendation of doctors is illustrated by a special table, which shows the most common options for “decorating the face” with one or another beard, beard, mustache and mustache. Una

A woman sweating blood, magnets in her nose - such cases can in no way be considered common and well studied. However, reporting them can help doctors identify rare diseases and potentially harmful effects of procedures

Chinese doctors experienced a real shock when an 11-year-old schoolgirl with a third hand on her back was admitted to the hospital

The young man, who fell into a coma after a car accident, woke up as a completely different person. 25-year-old Briton Rory Curtis was quite sure that he - actor Matthew McConaughey

Manesh Kumar, a 45-year-old Indian, began to have health problems when he noticed blood in his urine while going to the toilet. At the same time, he did not experience any painful sensations either before or after, but decided to go to the doctor to get checked

Billy Milligan was born in 1955 and after a while got into all psychiatry textbooks. Usually, a split personality implies that there are two personalities inside one body, most often in conflict with each other

A group of psychiatrists led by Professor Tom Craig of King's College London has developed a new therapy for treating patients with schizophrenia that can get rid of obsessive auditory hallucinations

For an 18-year-old teenager from India, doctors still removed a tail almost 15 centimeters long. For a long time, the young man ignored this atavism until it hurt him to sit and even sleep

Six-year-old Jude Carrington from Hertfordshire, England, has never eaten regular food due to a rare bowel disease. Writes about this edition of the Daily Mail