Diseases and mutations 2024, November

Australian artist Ben Taylor visited Africa in 2013 and brought from there not only rich impressions, but also eye parasites - the so-called loa worms

Hundreds of books and thousands of articles have been written about geniuses. They talk about the formation of a worldview, the environment, the material situation - a word, about everything that, from the point of view of researchers, affects creativity. But very rarely - about health

In India, an epidemic of child deaths continues, most likely caused by toxins in the lychee fruit. Two weeks ago we already reported about this and then 53 children died in 10 days, and to date the death toll has reached 152 people.These mysterious childhood epidemics have been occurring in India since 1995, when such cases were first recorded

A very unusual boy was born in South Africa. Hanru van Niekerk was born on November 11, 2014. He is a perfectly healthy child. But there is an unusual birthmark on his head - it looks like a clearly outlined number 12

Indian Rashida Khatun is crying … tears of blood! And her compatriot Savitri has tiny crystals falling from her eyes instead of tears. How to explain these mysterious phenomena? Bless or curse

Almost every inhabitant of the planet Earth is familiar with this disease. Once or twice a year we all have the flu

In 1870, one of the officials of the Nizhne-Kodymsky Cossack detachment with horror reported to the local doctor that up to 70 people in their unit were sick with strange seizures

The baby, whose heart is on the outside, was born this week in the Indian state of Bihar. The most important organ beats outside the chest right in front of the shocked doctors and parents

The 15-year-old schoolgirl is only 58 cm tall and weighs 5 kg and lives in the Indian city of Nagpur. Yoti Amge from the Indian city of Nagpur is the smallest girl in the world according to the Indian Book of Records

German geneticists argue that the plague epidemic could begin again in Europe

The first thing to keep in mind about the COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus - it appeared just a few months ago. Our knowledge about her is not as complete and accurate as we would like. On this score, there are reservations in the text, but one should not think that all this was written on the water with a pitchfork

The epidemic of the new coronavirus infection COVID-19 in China has turned into a pandemic: new cases of infection are recorded every day in different countries. States introduce quarantine measures, and ordinary citizens purchase food and hygiene products

The German newspaper Die Welt explains how to tell the difference between coronavirus and the flu or the common cold. If you get a runny nose, do not rush to panic: this is hardly a sign that you will soon fall victim to a deadly epidemic!How do you know if the symptoms indicate the Covid-19 virus, or rather a cold or flu?

Scientists have released real pictures of the malicious little things, taken using electron microscopes.- A very aesthetic sight, - this is how the American specialists from The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Rocky Mountains Laboratories commented on the new 2019-nCoV coronavirus, recently designated COVID-19, who photographed mischievous little thing with electron microscopes

A strange animal was filmed in one of the countries of the Middle East. A farmer demonstrates in front of the camera an unusual kid, which was born with one eye (see video below)

Advertisements for the sale of reusable masks made of woven materials appear on the Internet. At the same time, these masks are not a medical device and are not accompanied by instructions for use.It is important to remember that reusable masks can only be reused after processing

To learn from the coronavirus pandemic, the world must become less permeable, that is, states must have the right to introduce additional control measures in the "super-spreaders" of diseases - at airports and at borders, American economist, author of the "black swan" theory Nassim Taleb told RIA Novosti

And Sweden's position is not so bad: the results of a German studyVirologist Hendrik Streek spoke on the ZDF TV channel about his new study, about whether the new coronavirus is transmitted through objects and domestic cats, as well as how it relates to various restrictive measures

In Germany, it was allowed to dissect the bodies of those who died from the coronavirus, concluding that the scientific benefits outweigh the danger of infecting doctors. Several unexpected discoveries have already been made: for example, not everyone has pneumonia

While the coronavirus apocalypse is slowly but inevitably becoming routine, the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself continues to evolve. And, unfortunately, he is good at it. According to Futurism.com, citing the South China Morning Post, new research shows that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, may already have mutated into more than 30 separate strains

In India, the researcher of ancient traditional medicine, Dr. Smith Naram, while studying Ayurvedic scriptures about 5000 years old, discovered a chapter that describes the symptoms of a disease very similar to the coronavirus COVID-19.According to India Today, a chapter titled Crimi, which means infections, was found in the texts of the Charaka Samhita collection

Hundreds of foci of infection appear here and there every year. But only a few of these foci give rise to epidemics, and in order to get a pandemic, an extremely rare combination of adverse circumstances is required.The clearest example in history, when mankind was unlucky in all respects, is, of course, the famous Black Death of the XIV century, the plague epidemic that devastated entire countries and left an indelible mark on the genotype of modern people

COVID-19 is a baby virus. It consists of only 29 proteins. Despite this, the coronavirus has already killed 80,000 people and put the whole world on a joke. Moreover, there are very few weaknesses that can be exploited. Atlantic writes about what scientists have already learned about the virus and how they plan to fight the new disease

A well-known scientific journal writes about the doubts that doctors and scientists face when analyzing data on the treatment of coronavirus. Experts agree that the patient's immune response interferes with healing, but they disagree on how to bypass the immune system without harming the patient

The main outbreaks occur during the winter months. This does not mean that Covid-19 will necessarily behave in the same way, but the results of the new study could help fight the pandemic.Of the seven known coronavirus infections that infect humans, four cause severely seasonal respiratory infections that are transmitted in a similar manner to influenza, according to new work by scientists at the University of Michigan School of Public Health

The Norwegian publication writes about the results of studies, thanks to which it was possible to find out how long the particles of the coronavirus remain viable, and therefore dangerous to humans, on different surfaces. The virus lives longest on plastic and stainless steel - up to three days

Experts in hydrodynamics have joined in the study of the transmission routes of COVID-19.The social distance prescribed in many countries of 1.5-2 meters is too short to protect people from contamination of each other. That is, from the further spread of the deadly coronavirus infection - COVID-19

Proverbs sometimes hide not just interesting thoughts, but also clues to mysterious, and sometimes at the same time terrible events

He has an outwardly calm face. And only sometimes mimicry betrays suffering. An absolutely healthy man, completely devoid of memory, settled in the 5th city hospital of Mariupol (Donetsk region). He can't even remember his name

Throughout the history of our planet, such a mysterious phenomenon as mass extinctions of biological species has occurred repeatedly, but irregularly

A woman working with a dangerous virus accidentally pricked her finger. She was saved by a vaccine never tested on humans. Ebola is a dangerous exotic disease common in the tropics

In the photo: The very same mouse lemur

COVID-19 demonstrates supernatural cunning by infiltrating cells.- Salik.bizA and B sat on the pipeResearchers from Cambridge University, led by Peter Forster, traced the genetic history of the COVID-19 pandemic from December last year to March this year and came to the conclusion that three types of coronaviruses are now "walking" around the world - A, B and C, as this new Chinese infection was conventionally called

Life expectancy for people with HIV has increased by an average of 13 years since the late 1990s, thanks to improved treatments, scientists say

It seemed to me that everyone knows this … It turns out, not everyone … The question is … How to determine if there are parasites? The analysis of worm eggs does not show their presence … Does this mean that they are not there?

Each of us can be considered a walking repository of microbes, yeasts and viruses. Up to 40 trillion microorganisms live in humans.- Salik.bizDo microbes control people?There are 21 thousand genes in the human genome. For comparison: the roundworm Caernorhabditis elegans has 20

A resident of the English county of Surrey spoke about a rare phobia, because of which she was afraid to die in her sleep. Her story is quoted by the tabloid The Mirror. Rachael Williams, 26, a mother of three, experienced increased anxiety when her younger sons were diagnosed with autism

Scientists have discovered a new virus in Brazil, the DNA of which is 90 percent of genes unknown to science. The results of the discovery are published on the bioRxiv preprint site.The virus was detected in the artificial lake Pampulha in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte

If you've always feared that aliens would kidnap you or take over your mind, then there is news for you. Your brain is already controlled by foreign organisms that change behavior, mood, and emotions. Scientists say modern man is not an individual

After unwanted "guests" entered the man's body, he barely managed to save his life - it took a whole team of surgeons to intervene.Chris Gordon, a 44-year-old teacher from Minnesota, woke up with a large bump on his elbow of unknown origin