Diseases and mutations 2024, May

Probably, there is no person in the world who, at least occasionally, would not have a headache. And in 99 cases out of 100, the headache is explained precisely by psychosomatic reasons. Acute psychological trauma, conflict, suppression of emotions are the main provocateurs of this ailment

Scientists at the University of Melbourne admitted that the true mortality rate from infection with the coronavirus remains unknown. According to experts, up to two-thirds of infections in China and elsewhere went unnoticed, which could make COVID-19 a less deadly disease

For just over a month now, we have been hearing in all the media about the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV), an outbreak of which was identified in the Chinese province of Wuhan. Together with the increasing international publicity, this virus is increasing concern among the population of many countries, as it has already spread throughout the world

There is a virology laboratory in Wuhan, China, but the new coronavirus could not be artificially bred there, said Mikhail Shchelkanov, head of the FEFU Microorganism Ecology Laboratory.In 2018, Xinhua reported on research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the immune mechanisms of bats, which can carry viruses for a long time, but not get sick

Scientists have created a dashboard showing the spread of the Chinese coronavirus around the world in real time. Data is entered from verified sources to help combat misinformation. At the onset of the epidemic, local authorities appeared to believe that the situation could be easily brought under control, and were keen to prevent rumors from spreading about the disease

Researchers are rushing to learn more about the epidemiology and genetic sequence of the coronavirus, which is rapidly spreading in Asia and beyond. At the same time, people do not have effective drugs for the treatment of coronavirus infections, just as there are no certified vaccines to prevent them

It seems that they are not telling us something.The map, with the help of which doctors in real time illustrate the situation with the spread of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV around the world, has become one of the most popular resources on the Internet

Since the beginning of the year, the whole world has been monitoring the development of the situation in China in connection with the outbreak of the new coronavirus 2019-nCov. Every day from the Celestial Empire, new data are received on the number of infected, which is constantly growing

Every few years, a serious disease appears on the planet, which many talk about. Avian Flu, Swine Flu, Ebola and many others. There are cases when serious epidemics pass by and do no harm to a person, but we just get a new type of virus and start looking for a way to save human lives from it

The new coronavirus - a "relative" of the old SARS - has already killed 26 people. It is believed that several thousand can be infected with it. And it is known for sure that the epidemic has spread beyond China. But this is not a reason to panic

A monstrous virus spreads across the planet in a matter of weeks. There are no medications, there is practically no chance of not getting sick. Villages die out one after another, in cities only ambulances move along the streets. The dead are buried in mass graves

I must say that this story is pretty bearded. Even in the early years of the 20th century, the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bloeler, who introduced the word "schizophrenia", preferred to use it in the plural: "schizophrenia", emphasizing that, at least, the disease has several significantly different forms

Dissociative identity disorder is one of the rarest mental illnesses. In such disorders, several different personalities live in the same body. They are educated in different ways, they can speak different languages. These individuals at different times control the human body, the rest at this time do not even know what their "neighbor" is doing

Numerous analyzes of the genetic structure of the virus confirm that it originated in the wild.Health experts from research institutes in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and other countries have denied rumors that a new type of coronavirus was specially synthesized in a laboratory

In the village of Achira, Tobolsk District, Tyumen Region, three local residents were evacuated by helicopters with an unknown illness after the mass death of dogs. Reported by Znak.According to the newspaper, the sick local residents are in serious condition

For many years, scientists could not understand the mechanism of Williams syndrome (or Williams-Buren) - a rare genetic disorder that affects an average of one in ten thousand newborns

Objective research on homosexuality among humans is difficult to conduct

Two months ago, in the Indonesian city of Batam, a baby was born with a very rare anomaly, which is considered a type of Siamese twins

The pandemic of the new coronavirus continues for two months. Everyone already considers himself an expert in this topic. Did you know that a virus cannot be killed? He does not live, so he can only be broken, destroyed. The virus is not a being, but rather a substance

Deja vu is a mental state in which a person feels that he once was in a similar situation, but this feeling is not associated with a specific moment of the past, but refers to the past in general

My interlocutor Alexey (let's call him that, asked not to provide his data) is an ambulance doctor who has been sent to the "coronavirus" teams several times over the past couple of weeks. These are now at every ambulance substation in Moscow and the Moscow region

Most recently, the population of the Earth faced the Ebola and Zika viruses

A 52-year-old patient was admitted to the Boston Medical Center (BIDMC) in the late 1990s and required a kidney transplant

"In me, I and my own twin," says California resident Taylor Muhl. The girl is an extremely rare case of chimerism, when cells of two different individuals are fused in one organism

For six years a resident of Ekibastuz has been suffering from an unknown disease. Doctors shrug their shoulders: none of them had ever experienced anything like this before. Meanwhile, the disease haunts the woman: her stomach is constantly swelling, breaking her ribs

A married couple from Mongolia contracted the bubonic plague. It is known that the couple ate raw marmot kidneys. A representative of the World Health Organization in Ulaanbaatar explained that according to beliefs and folk traditions, raw marmot meat is considered a health-promoting agent

"Up to a million people in the UK have been driven to suicidal thoughts by tinnitus, when people hear a noise that has no external cause," says a new study. A study published today by the British Tinnitus Association says that about 7 million British adults are affected by the condition and the volume of sounds people hear can be comparable to a jet engine or a whistling kettle, "The Times reported

Apollo astronauts are experiencing a mysterious series of heart and vascular problems, likely related to their long stay in space and the effects of cosmic rays, as hinted at by experiments on mice, the scientist said in an article published

A case in the Chinese province of Yunnan, where a man who died on a bus was found to have a hantavirus after an autopsy, prompted scientists to think about a new threat. Russia has the second highest number of confirmed cases of hantavirus-related haemorrhagic fever, after China

In Canada, obliterating bronchiolitis was first recorded in a vaper - previously, such a disease has not been encountered among users of electronic cigarettes.Obliterating bronchiolitis occurs when the pulmonary bronchioles (the airways of the lungs) become clogged with inhaled substances, leading to coughing and shortness of breath

A five-year-old girl from the Philippines with a rare genetic disease, on which traffickers decided to make money, lived in slavery all the years. They deliberately beat the baby so that later she would beg for alms in tears

Spanish scientists are concerned about the widespread use of gadgets by people, because, in their opinion, this could lead to a global epidemic of blindness

Researchers studying the biological basis of mental illness conducted the first genomic analysis of schizophrenia in Africa and identified multiple rare mutations that are more common in people with the disorder. Mutations have mostly been found in genes that are important for the development of the brain and brain synapses - tiny structures that coordinate communication between neurons

On January 1, 2019, in San Antonio, Texas, a boy named Jabari Gray was born with a very rare anomaly - almost all of his body was missing skin.The skin was only on the head and partially on the legs, but the neck, torso, stomach and both arms looked like pieces of raw meat

Our body has a function of protection against a variety of life-threatening conditions. However, in some cases, our reserves are insufficient. For example, in the fight against cancer

In the city of Fallujah, 64 km west of Baghdad (Iraq), a baby was born with a very rare anomaly - the complete absence of a nose. This anomaly is called arinia and occurs in one child in 197 million

Denver health officials are busy investigating the infection history of a patient suspected of being infected with the Ebola virus, according to a Denver Post

The coronavirus outbreak, which came from the Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019, has infected more than 24,000 people worldwide to date. Despite the high contagiousness, the infection mysteriously escapes children under 15 years of age

Scientists at the University of Tokyo have come to the conclusion that global warming contributes to a decrease in immunity in animals and humans and makes them more vulnerable to various viral infections and other pathogens

SARS-CoV-2 can be detected in sputum and stool samples even after this coronavirus is not present in nasopharyngeal samples. A corresponding study by Chinese specialists was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, according to the American College of Physicians