Non-infectious meningitis due to an allergic reaction or autoimmune disease is treated with corticosteroids. If a person has cancer-related meningitis, then it would require a certain therapy for its treatment. Long courses of high dose IV antifungal medications are used to treat fungal meningitis....
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A: According to our data in Shanghai, the risk for young people to develop severe illness is very low as long as the medical resources are not overly strained. Recently, our hospital has admitted more than a dozen young people coming back from Europe. These people are all coming back toge...
Environmental measures are certainly needed but we also need to work out how pathogens may move between species, and how to minimise the risks when that happens. Predicting the next emerging infectious events has much in common with daily weather forecasts. First, we must build our knowledge of ...
There are many ways people can die of the flu. Influenza viruses can inflict serious damage on a range of organs and systems throughout the body, including the lungs, heart, brain and overall immune system, said Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology and molecular, cellular, and de...
Which type of influenza is associated with worldwide epidemics? Is the flu a communicable disease? Is the flu an infectious disease? How many died in the 1918 influenza pandemic? Is the Spanish flu the same as flu strains today? How did HIV become a worldwide epidemic? How long was the ...
How long does the flu last? As harsh as the flu can be, the good news is that most people feel much better within one to two weeks. Most healthy adults become contagious the day before symptoms develop (which makes it trickier to prevent from spreading). They remain infectious for up to...
Case surges, overrun hospitals, and a second lockdown this summer could deal a heavy blow to the United States. Here's what we need to turn the tide.
Every autumn and winter, the media is filled with infectious disease leaders urging everyone from babies older than 6 months to adults to receive the influenza vaccine. Yet, despite the vaccination campaigns for influenza, COVID-19, and even pneumonia, the rates of vaccinations are still disappoin...
To illustrate the point, let's return to that bowling alley where people are bowling by themselves. Let's say the guy on the first lane contractsinfluenza, and he passes it along to the woman on the second lane. If that woman isn't immune to influenza, then the disease will likely con...