Diseases and mutations 2024, September

Jasmine Percival, 23, from Chatham, suffered from unexplained abdominal pain for years. As it turned out, the girl's bad habit of chewing her own hair was to blame

800 cases of swine flu have been registered in Kazakhstan since the beginning of the epidemiological season

About 20 thousand people die of influenza in Russia every year, Sergei Netesov, professor at Novosibirsk State University, told reporters

According to the assurances of scientists, "swine" flu in its properties is closer to seasonal strains of the virus. The more dangerous types of influenza include A (H2N2), A (H3N2) and A (H5N1) - "Asian", "Hong Kong" and "bird" flu

Eight years ago in 2010, Sam Ballard was the most ordinary young Australian. Cheerful guy loved to play rugby and have fun with his peer Jimmy Galvin and other friends

Scientists of the world sound the alarm: Standard contraception does not save you from the human papilloma virus. The epidemic is spreading rapidly around the world. The new HPV virus is rapidly gaining traction in different parts of the world

Observations of the life of the famous primitive "cruel people" of the Yanomamo and other Indians of the Amazon have shown that they do not suffer from hypertension in their old years

Lujan Eroles from Spain almost went crazy when she came across a frightening creature with two heads in her own yard. But upon closer examination, the disgusting monster turned out to be the caterpillar of a wine hawk

There are only about two dozen people in the world who do not have a papillary pattern either on the fingers and toes or on the palms

The term "epidemic" was introduced into medicine in the 1st century. AD Although Hippocrates in the VI century. BC. and wrote about epidemics, but by this word he meant not "a disease that simultaneously embraces many people", but in general a disease

A Brazilian transgender named Maju underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1999, after which he officially became a woman. However, after a few years, her sex life turned into a real hell, because her new genitals were narrow and small.Because of this, Maju was soon forced to completely abandon sexual intercourse

This is the fourth child of a 28-year-old Astrakhan woman. I have been working as an obstetrician for twenty years, but such a child is being born for the first time in my memory,”Tatyana Chikina, the chief physician of the Astrakhan Clinical Maternity Hospital JSC, does not hide surprise and delight

“However, on the same day at about noon, Dr. Rie, stopping a car in front of the house, noticed at the end of their street a doorkeeper who could hardly move, somehow absurdly spreading his arms and legs and hanging his head like a wooden clown

It became known exactly how a 10-year-old boy contracted the bubonic plague in Altai. This incident was reported on July 13. Then in the isolation ward, in addition to the sick child himself, 17 people were placed with whom he contacted

Geneticists have decoded the genome of the plague bacillus - bacteria that devastated Europe in the XIV century. It turned out that the deadly plague stick is almost indistinguishable from its harmless "great-grandmother"

In the 16th century, a wave of an epidemic of a disease called "English sweating fever" or "English sweat" swept across Europe. It was accompanied by a high mortality rate. The epidemic broke out several times between 1485 and 1551

Dr. Malcolm Casadaban from the University of Chicago, USA, has died from infection with a weakened plague bacteria, writes New York Times

A tiger was found on the highway in Primorye, which almost fell under the wheels of cars. The animal behaved inappropriately. A week ago, another tiger (tigress) was hit by a car on the side of the road for similar reasons

14-month-old British Siamese twins Jadon and Anias MacDonald were born with fused heads. Such twins are called craniopagus, they are born very rarely, about 2% of the total number of Siamese twins

In England (the territory of Great Britain excluding the regions of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), a real epidemic of pumping children with antidepressants

We are trying to figure out where the legs grow from in a panic around a new disease.Why has the coronavirus hit our imaginations so hard? This is a mystery to which there is no answer. For four months in the world about 10 thousand people died from coronavirus (data as of the morning of March 20)

The latest discoveries of geneticists have already changed the views of doctors about the causes of various ailments, helped to create new methods of diagnosis and treatment, but something else also turned out

In the Indian state of Chhattisgarh in early November, a female baby was born with three arms. The girl's third hand is underdeveloped and is only a hand with fingers sticking out from under the armpit of her healthy right hand

A two-headed dolphin was brought to one of the Turkish beaches. The body of a dead mutant was found on the coast in Izmir. He was noticed by a local resident - physical education teacher Tugrul Metin

25 years ago we moved to Canada with full confidence that our future children will be taken care of here much better than where we lived before. Now I can say that it was this faith of mine in Canadian care for people that caused my child's serious, incurable illness

Bombay resident Pooja Ganatra was born into a respected high-income Indian family. Among her relatives there is not a single "white", but the girl was born fair-skinned, with unusually bright blue-green eyes and red hair

Hereditary Polish farmer Krzystof Makles, who has been breeding ducks for quite some time, once spotted a freak with four legs among the little ducklings in an incubator

American doctors described the case of a 70-year-old patient who was suspected of having brain cancer, but a fungal infection was found in his head that had been there for about 30 years. Reported by Science Alert

In the photo: a newborn foal with eight hooves. Kiev Museum of Chernobyl Ukraine is pursuing a policy of gradual settlement of the Chernobyl territories, although the quality of life of its population is already declining

Professors of the St. Vladimir's Children's Clinical Hospital performed a unique operation to save a newborn baby born with a rare pathology - two genitals. Baby Artem G. was born in Odintsovo on February 26

About a month after the emergence of this virus, the President's Consulting Committee was urgently convened for the first time

46-year-old resident of Thailand Lam Frai might be glad to have a beautiful and magnificent bust, but everything has its limits and when the breast becomes TOO big, it turns not into beauty, but into torment and ugliness.Lam first noticed an unusual increase in her breasts three years ago, and then her breasts grew evenly and not quickly

10-year-old Hamish Robinson was born lacking chromosome 7p22.1 and with a kidney located in his thigh

The New Yorker was fond of hunting: he repeatedly shot squirrels and, as his family say, ate the meat of these animals. He did not disdain by-products, including the brain of animals

What is happening in the village of Kalachi (Kazakhstan) - is it an anomaly or something else? Today this issue is already worrying the whole country. Correspondent Aslan Ospanov tried to find an answer to this question

Researchers at the University of Haifa (Israel) have discovered a two-headed salamander, reports The Jewish Press

When we meet again at work and school after the summer holidays, the number of colds skyrockets. The thing is that we are more indoors and in contact with people who carry new viruses unknown to the body

Last week, we told you about the outbreak of a mysterious virus in China that is similar in symptoms to acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), better known as SARS. At the moment, researchers have determined that the new virus is a type of coronavirus, to which SARS and MERS also belong

American paranormal researcher Alan Sutcliffe has been studying the so-called "Lincoln Legend" for a long time. The surname Lincoln was carried by members of an unusual family (which had nothing to do with the legendary President Lincoln)

Unique medical cases provide insights into how the human body functions and how doctors solve medical mysteries. Read about 16 strange and interesting cases that medicine faced in 2016