Tag: diseases
Diseases: WHO: First polio outbreak in years in Africa
Diseases WHO: First polio outbreak in years in Africa A child’s finger is marked after receiving a polio vaccine. Photo: Nicholas Kajoba/XinHua/dpa © dpa-infocom GmbH Malawi reports Africa’s first polio…
More aggressive HIV variant discovered in the Netherlands
Status: 10:07 p.m | Reading time: 2 minutes Blood is taken from a patient in a laboratory for an HIV test. Photo: Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/dpa Source: dpa-infocom GmbH The VB variant…
The retina reveals it – lifespan recognizable in the eye – health
An eye test can show how long you have left to live. An international team discovered a link between the biological age of a person’s retina and their risk of…
Medicine: Dispute over “orphan drugs” against rare diseases – health
The construction is original and was intended as a treat for the pharmaceutical industry. Since it is economically risky to develop drugs to treat rare diseases, the incentive has been…
Infection | Omikron: what is an easy course, when is it difficult?
Initial studies indicate that the new Corona variant Omikron tends to lead to slight gradients. But what does that mean – is there a risk of hospitalization even if the…
Antibodies are not the only weapon against corona
Even with the omicron variant, the human immune system is not helpless. In addition to any antibodies that may be present, helper and killer cells also work in the human…
SZ podcast “To the point” – news from December 20, 2021 – health
The company party in a restaurant in Oslo at the end of November turned into a superspreader event. The guests actually did everything right: almost all of them had been…
Neanderthals arguably already affected by animal-borne diseases
France Virus transmitted from animals to humans: This Neanderthal man could have been the first to suffer from zoonosis 50,000 years ago The reconstructed face of a Neanderthal man ©…
AIDS study: mRNA vaccine against HIV in animal experiments “promising”
A blood cell infected with the HIV virus Image: AFP An experimental vaccine against HIV has shown promising results in animal experiments, according to US researchers. The vaccine reduced the…
Can mRNA damage the heart?
Under-30-year-olds should no longer receive the corona vaccine from Moderna in the future due to heart problems. The Standing Vaccination Commission advises this. This is how experts classify the risk.…