All Entries in the "Infectious Diseases" Category
Babesiosis: Blood Infection From A Tick
Babesiosis is a rare tick-borne infection of the red blood cells, caused by a microscopic parasite called Babesia.
Most Babesia species are found in animals; only one, Babesia microti, has been found in infected humans.
Babesiosis occurs most often during warm months, in places where woods, grass, and brush are common.
Babesiosis is transmitted [...]
Sleep Can Help The Healing Process During An Hepatitis Infection
A good nights’ sleep is important for everyone, but especially for people who have a Hepatitis infection.
When you sleep you are able to rejuvenate your body, mind and emotions.
When you rest, your liver is resting. It is important to get a full night’s sleep every night of the week.
Your liver will respond [...]
Differences Between Common Flu And Swine Flu
You can hardly watch the news or read the paper without there being a story about Swine Flu, what is classified as the H1N1 pandemic that is wrecking havoc all over the world.
What is it, however about this particular strain of the flu virus that is causing such concern?
For all intents [...]
Smoking Increases Active Tuberculosis Risk
According to a Taiwan study, smoking increases risk of developing active tuberculosis in people who smoke compared to people who have never smoked.
18,000 people of Taiwan were tracked in the study for more than three years. The lead author Hsien-Ho Lin, a postdoctoral research fellow from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, wrote that there [...]
Healthy Swine Flu Victims Should Not Take Tamiflu
World Health Organization recommends healthy people with swine flu should not be given Tamiflu. Many healthy people have already been prescribed the antiviral drug Tamiflu to contain the spread of dreadful disease.
Even people with underlying health conditions have also given the drug and studies have warned against the possible side-effects.
According to latest WHO guidelines, antiviral [...]
Gene Predicts Hepatitis C Treatment Success
U.S. researchers found that genes in hepatitis patients could determine how the disease could respond to the treatment.
People with certain gene variant are far more likely to respond well to the treatment when compared to others.
Tests that predict the presence of that particular gene variant could be used to decide which patients are more likely [...]
Higher Dose Of Medication Required To Treat Tuberculosis
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers said, the typical drug dose considered crucial in treating tuberculosis efficiently is much too low to account for modern-day physiques.
Dr. Tawanda Gumbo, associate professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern and the study’s lead author said, the finding is particularly important for those living in societies plagued by obesity.
Dr. Gumbo [...]
Seizures In Children From Swine Flu Virus
Children should be tested for infection with H1N1 swine flu virus if they have flu-like symptoms and unexplained seizures and treated with flu-fighting drugs, U.S. health officials told.
Health officials told that four children, who got swine flu in late May, in Dallas County, Texas, had seizures or changes in mental status [...]
Vi Vaccine Effective To Prevent Typhoid In Young Children
According to a new study, typhoid vaccine namely, GlaxoSmithKline’s Typherix, protects children as young as 2 years from typhoid fever.
The widespread vaccination for typhoid also protects people of age groups who have not been given a shot.
Researchers conducted a test for two wards in an Indian slum where about 60,000 people live [...]
Students Search For West Nile Fever In Mosquitoes
Marshall University students are not interested in too much fun this summer, as some are actually spending their break counting mosquitoes.
One of the three Marshall University environmental science majors who are participating in the project, Chris Chadwick, said the group has often counted 1,800 in just one day.
The group [...]
