Iran on Tuesday reported 121 new coronavirus deaths, its highest daily toll in over two months, as it battles to contain the Middle East’s deadliest COVID-19 outbreak. Health ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari told a news conference that the new fatalities brought the overall virus death toll to 9,863. That is Iran’s highest single-day fatality rate since April 11, when […]
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SARS-CoV-2 was first reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, and has been spreading massively throughout the world ever since. By May 2020, there were more than 6 million confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection, and more than 500,000 deaths in more than 150 countries. COVID-19 typically causes fever, cough, difficulty breathing, fatigue, and in extreme cases, may cause multiple organ […]
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Too much Vitamin C can lead to health complaints The water-soluble Vitamin C, including ascorbic acid, is essential for life and has a lot of different tasks. Since it cannot be stored in the body, is a continuous recording of the Vitamin is necessary. However, anyone who takes too much can cause health complaints such as digestive problems. Because the […]
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West Nile Virus spreads strengthened in Germany The West Nile Virus has been detected in the last few years in Germany, where mosquitoes are considered the main vectors. In a recent epidemiological Bulletin of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) points out that a further spread of the mosquito-borne West Nile Virus in Germany was assumed. Apparently, the Virus could overwinter […]
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Epidemiologists have warned that a second wave of COVID-19 is on its way. In fact, in some countries, it’s already here. When coronavirus cases begin to grow in early spring, health systems were forced to pivot quickly – sometimes within a matter of days – to allocate scant resources and implement new technologies and workflows. Now, experts say administrators have […]
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Virginia Tech researchers studying how a usually benign virus attacks the human heart with sometimes fatal consequences determined that the virus disrupts the heart’s electrical system—and with dual impacts not previously recognized. Patrick Calhoun, a postdoctoral associate, and his mentor, James Smyth, an associate professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, found that adenovirus not only uncouples electrical […]
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A bacterial strain adapted to life in our noses may help prevent the painful, chronic inflammation of sinusitis. This discovery could lead to the development of a probiotic nasal spray to treat the condition. “Friendly bacteria” from the genus Lactobacillus are known to have beneficial effects in the gut, genital tract, and skin, where they protect against infection and modify […]
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Although the spreading SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus usually causes only mild respiratory symptoms, the COVID-19 disease progresses so severely in around five percent of those affected that acute respiratory distress can occur. “The mortality rate in these cases is high,” says Dr. Thomas Wiesmann, who attended the patient along with the intensive care team in the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care […]
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The world recorded more than 183,000 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, the most in a single day since the outbreak started, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday. He said the next big challenge was to increase production and distribution of dexamethasone, the first drug shown to lower the risk of death in severely ill COVID-19 patients. […]
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How too little sleep affects our emotions Reduced sleep causes that people are less likely to develop positive feelings. In a current study, the Participants felt, for example, less joy and enthusiasm, if you slept less than normal. In the current investigation, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), it was found that the reduction of nocturnal sleep has […]
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