Diseases and mutations 2024, September

Scientists associate this with a genetic malfunction, and the owner of the animal is convinced that an unusual creature took her diseases.- I took it in my arms: clean - the cat licked him, such a pretty one. I told him: "Yes, dear, what's wrong with you?

Many diseases can be recognized by the smell emanating from the patient.Recently, a story about how Belarusian doctors diagnosed a newborn with a rare and dangerous disease, cystic fibrosis, by the smell of maple syrup emanating from him, thundered on the network

68-year-old Scottish resident Joy Milne surprised doctors with her ability to detect Parkinson's disease through her sense of smell. And it helped doctors understand what exactly causes this smell and offer a very simple way to diagnose this complex disease

In the English city of Dagenham, a woman had a heart failure for three minutes after being bitten by a mosquito. The Daily Mirror newspaper reports.Kim Robinson, 25, recalls feeling a sharp pain in her right ankle from an insect bite. “The site of the bite itched and became inflamed the next day,” she says. - B

Have you ever heard of disease X? Not? It's okay because it hasn't been there yet, but scientists believe they found it in Ethiopia after people start to fall like flies with bleeding eyes.In the aftermath of the biblical locust plague, Ethiopia is now facing an as-yet-unknown and terrifying fatal disease, informally called bleeding eye fever, which can be the dreaded “disease X,” although some believe the new Chinese coronavirus is disease X.- S

The government of Nigeria warned of a "strange epidemic" that killed 15 people and infected dozens of people, all in just one week.An outbreak of a mysterious disease that causes vomiting, swelling and diarrhea was first reported late last month in Benue State, southeast of the capital Abuja

The deadly and incurable Hantavirus, usually transmitted by rats, has infected at least 29 people in the remote Argentine town of Epuen. The outbreak occurred back in October 2018, but the information hit the world media only a few days ago

Juliet Garcia works in the catamaran rental service on Lake San Roque, in the city of Carlos Paz, province of Cordoba, Argentina. Carlos Paz is located at an altitude of 650 meters above sea level and is located in the very center of the country

A group of scientists have discovered a previously unknown virus that lives in the intestines of every second person in the world. American bioinformatics experts believe that this virus affects the behavior of especially common bacteria

In Honduras, Siamese twins were born, fused in the chest and abdomen and who had a common heart and liver. The girls were named Maria Jose and Maria Fernandez

In Colombia, doctors removed an embryo from the belly of a newborn baby. This is reported by the local newspaper La Cronica del Quindio

The title of this article sounds like the title of a cheap adventure movie, but it all happened in real life and exactly as it says.In 2011, a team of researchers discovered the remains of an ancient Aztec city in the jungle of Honduras. According to the group, it was the legendary lost “City of the Monkey God”, and among archaeologists, this place is mostly known as “La Ciudad Blanca” (White City). These r

In 1725, Michael Ranft, in his book De masticatione mortuorum in tumulis, first attempted to explain beliefs in vampires in a natural way

In 1959, exactly in the middle between the two great space achievements - the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite and the flight of Yuri Gagarin - the capital of the USSR was under threat of mass extinction as a result of an epidemic of a terrible disease

Scientists have found a small percentage of smokers among COVID-2019 cases.Doctors continue to look for the best way to treat coronavirus. French doctors are planning to include nicotine patches in their technique. They will be attached to patients with COVID-19 and health workers, writes the Daily Mail

Chinese doctors showed pictures of the lungs affected by the 2019-nCoV coronavirus. The results of computed tomography of a 33-year-old patient are published in the journal Radiology.It is noted that the woman worked in the city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first registered

A 39-year-old Muscovite with a so-called two-horned (or heart-shaped) uterus safely endured twins. There are only 12 such cases in world medical practice throughout history. Approximately one woman in a thousand is born with a two-horned uterus

26-year-old Catarina Sequeira gave birth to a baby last Thursday after being pronounced dead

This news looks like a fiction, but the event did take place and the creature born in Zimbabwe actually looks more like a frog than a premature baby. The news is reported by the British tabloid Daily Mail

A resident of the English city of Southampton, Hampshire, noticed a malignant tumor in time thanks to an ultrasound scan at an early stage of pregnancy. This is reported by the Daily Mirror.Yasmin Randall, 29, underwent an ultrasound scan in her eighth week of pregnancy

On October 22, the UK House of Commons Health and Welfare Committee reported that by 2050. about 10 million people will die annually due to dangerous species of bacteria

While the new 2019-nCoV coronavirus is sweeping the planet, scientists are developing an effective drug to combat the disease. However, in the best case scenario, the coronavirus vaccine will not appear earlier than a year from now, as its development and testing take a long time

Penicillin and other antibiotics have saved countless lives. However, the age of these miraculous drugs seems to be coming to an end. Deaths from drug-resistant microbes will increase from the current 700,000 per year to 10 million by 2025. Then they will outstrip cancer, heart disease and diabetes in their harmful effects

The mixture, created according to the Old English medical book of the 9th century, destroyed up to 90 percent of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - one of the antibiotic-resistant strains of this bacterium that causes barley in the eyes

Where do antibiotic-resistant bacteria come from? Is it possible to defeat them with viruses? Where are most of the antibiotics produced? (Spoiler: in industrial animal husbandry.) “And be sure to sing the whole course to the end

Taking anti-inflammatory drugs can worsen the health condition of coronavirus. French Minister of Health Olivier Veran wrote about this on Twitter.According to him, ibuprofen and cortisone can complicate the course of the disease. To reduce the high temperature, the minister recommended taking paracetamol

Ibuprofen, popular drugs for hypertensive and diabetic patients - can they harm in COVID-19?- I went around 5 pharmacies, everywhere they swept away paracetamol! - a Muscovite complains in social networks. - And you can't take ibuprofen, with coronavirus it is deadly

No sooner had we told you about antiviral drugs with unproven efficacy, when information began to spread in the media that China had officially recognized Arbidol as a cure for coronavirus. This is reported by The Bell, citing a source. Earlier it became known that the Chinese government intends to test a number of drugs for the treatment of CoVID-2019

Doctors removed a tumor from the lower jaw of a seven-year-old boy, in which there were 526 "teeth", reports The New Indian Express. The patient was diagnosed with odontoma, an anomaly in the development of dental tissue that is asymptomatic, so it is usually found by accident

In Maryland, USA, during an operation, doctors found several full-fledged teeth in a baby's brain. This is reported by the British edition of the Daily Star. A four-month-old baby was diagnosed with a rare congenital benign brain tumor called craniopharyngioma

An unnamed 13-year-old resident of Moscow recently felt a strange lump in one of his testicles. It didn't hurt, but it stood out noticeably under the skin.When the boy's parents took him to the district hospital, the doctor suspected testicular cancer and urgently sent the child to the city's Center for Reproductive Health of Children and Adolescents

A resident of Denmark came to the doctors with complaints of shortness of breath and lack of smell in the left nostril, which prevented him from living fully. Doctors discovered a rare phenomenon in the patient's nose - growing tooth

28-year-old Hayley Myurcroft from Kent was very scared when she saw her son Oakley have small, but larger teeth and rather sharp canine teeth, which erupted in the child in just a few days

In 1965, researchers discovered a nasty respiratory tract infection called 229E. Today we know it as the common cold, but this is the first coronavirus discovered. Sometimes this “common cold” causes serious complications. This is one of the main challenges in the fight against coronaviruses.In

In the photo: Portrait of Queen Henrietta Mary with the dwarf Jeffrey Hudson. People who are incredibly tall or, on the contrary, surprisingly short, have always attracted increased attention. There was a time when they caused fear or divine awe

Patients with catatonia look frozen on the outside, but inside they feel fear and anxiety.Catatonia is a disorder that seems like a relic of the past. Its symptoms are immobility, fixed gaze, withdrawal symptoms, and refusal to eat. In theory, it is a motor disorder, "paralysis of the will", anxiety syndrome, or the result of the immune system not working

In recent years, the joke of doctors that there are no healthy people, but there are under-examined people, has become especially relevant. And, unfortunately, not funny. According to experts, almost the whole world is seriously ill

According to the analysis of the Financial Times, the death rate in 14 countries exceeds the usual rate by 122 thousand people. Thus, in England and Wales, mortality in the second week of April was the highest in this century. And it is 58% higher than the official number of victims of the coronavirus for the same week

Stephen Hawking's contribution to science is hard to underestimate, as is his zeal for life. As you know, the famous scientist suffered from a poorly treatable disease called "amyotrophic lateral sclerosis", which ultimately became the cause of Stephen's death

Scientists from Baylor College of Medicine and the Ian and Dan Duncan Institute for Neurological Research (USA) have uncovered the mechanism of Lou Gehrig's disease, which the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking suffered from