A. WHO has came up with a series of ways to prevent novel coronavirus. B. Coronavirus are a large group of virus that are all known to human beings C. Chinese authorities have confirmed the origin of a novel coronavirus. D. Human beings can avoid infection if they clean hands and cover...
After knowing the couple's reproductive history, doctors at the hospital carried out tandem mass spectrometry and gene testing. They found that the third child suffers from a rare disease -- primary carnitine deficiency combined with dilated cardiomyopathy. Wang Xike, a pediatrician at the hospital,...
The list, as a fruit of multilateral efforts from the industry, is the very first batch of rare diseases released by China, and the country is waiting for the coming second and third batches. Huang Rufang, the founder of CORD, said that the list is one of the most important policies car...
In P.R. China, a major feature of successful schistosomiasis control is the shrinking of snail-infested areas. Indeed, the reduction in ASR by over 99% in five provinces has helped to maintain the TI status for more than 20 years. Our results also suggest that the endemic counties with sm...
I also had an enquiry about the Bideford Isolation Hospital (North Devon) from someone who had been a patient there in 1954 with suspected polio. He recalled that he stayed there for most of the school summer holiday, and for about half that time was the only patient in the entire hospita...
In remote antiquity, the ancestors of the Chinese nation chanced to find that some creatures and plants could serve as remedies for certain ailments and pains, and came to gradually master their application. As time went by, people began to actively seek out such remedies and methods for ...
More recently, a novel SARS-like coronavirus was found in Rhinolophus bats in mainland China, suggesting that is the more likely species to be the natural reservoir from which the SARS coronavirus emerged. CLINICAL FEATURES The disease causes an influenza-like illness that typically presents with ...
At the end of 2021, we did see a rising trend for the seven respiratory diseases compared to the year 2020 when the NPIs relaxed in China, but the rising trend was not significant after adjusting for the NPIs indicators. Our study showed that NPIs have an effect on respiratory diseases, ...
In China, “surveillance of filariasis” was unique and different from that of other diseases in that it was performed in places of basic elimination, where the MF rate and density of the population reduced to a very low level. The surveillance system included three parts: longitudinal surveillan...
The second and probably the more important of the genetic factors influencing HIV infections came from an observation of apparently HIV-resistant female sex workers in Nairobi. These women were shown to have a particular HLA type (HLA A2, HLA A28), and it has been proposed that this enhanced...