For thousands of years, smallpox was one of the world's most dreaded diseases. An acutely infectious disease spread by a virus, smallpox was the scourge of medieval Europe, where it was known by its symptoms of extreme fever and disfiguring rash as "the invisible fire." In many outbreaks...
Editorial Commentary: Still Learning From the Earliest Known MERS Outbreak, Zarqa, Jordan, April 2012.coronavirusJordanMERSserologyZarqa HospitalAn introduction is presented in which the editor discusses the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak associated with hospital.Lucey...
Though it is no longer a significant public health threat in most parts of the world, leprosy is still one of theleast understood infectious diseases, in part because the bacteria that causes it (Mycobacterium leprae) is difficult to culture for research and has only one other animal host, th...
Scientists have long known that nature is really a chemical factory. All living things containchemicals that help them survive. So scientists&39; interest in traditional medicine is not new. But ithas become an urgent concern. This is because the earth&39;s supply of natural medicines may be...
Results of the analysis show that Ile-Ife glass is chemically distinctive. It is now referred to as high lime high alumina (HLHA) glass—not known from anywhere else in the world. What this tells us The Ile-Ife site is the first known primary glass workshop in sub-Saharan Africa. Like...
Limitations of our study include the relatively small sample numbers, and as they occur over the different neurodegenerative diseases with known sex-specific prevalence differences (e.g. AD versus LBD). Without systematic regional testing, we also cannot rule out that sex-specific differences in tau...
Centre for Infectious Diseases and International HealthProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesDonoghue HD, Lee OY-C, Minnikin DE, Besra GS, Taylor JH, Spigelman M. Tuberculosis in Dr Granville's mummy: a molecular re-examination of the earliest known Egyptian mummy to be ...
The most common diseasescaused by strep Aare tonsillitis (also called "strep throat") and impetigo (also known as "school sores"). These conditions are relatively benign, but if untreated can give rise in some individuals to deadly complications, including "invasive" strep A disease andrheumatic...
The most common diseasescaused by strep Aare tonsillitis (also called "strep throat") and impetigo (also known as "school sores"). These conditions are relatively benign, but if untreated can give rise in some individuals to deadly complications, including "invasive" strep A disease andrheumatic...