Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
As monkeypox cases mount and the disease spreads, some people might have déjà vu — here comes another potentially life-disrupting virus. Although monkeypox first surfaced more than six decades ago, public health officials say this outbreak is different. The disease was first discovered in monke...
Vaccines exist for all sorts of diseases, both viral and bacterial: measles, mumps, whooping cough, tuberculosis, smallpox, polio, typhoid, etc. Many diseases cannot be cured by vaccines, however. The common cold and Influenza are two good examples. These diseases either mutate so quickly or ...
There are manytreatments for HIV, but it's still important to develop vaccines. HIV drugs have side effects, are expensive, and can be hard for people in some countries to get. You can also develop a problem called "drug resistance," which means you'll need to switch to newmedicationswhe...
But polio hasn't actually been cured. Instead, highly effective vaccines have been developed to prevent infection from the virus that causes polio. It's the same story for smallpox, which has been declared to be completely eradicated, and a few other infectious diseases tha...
"The mpox rash often first appears on the face, hands or feet and then spreads to other parts of the body," Tosh said. "But in cases linked to the outbreak that started in 2022, the rash often started in the genital area, mouth or throat. The mpox rash goes through many stages. ...
“The mpox rash often first appears on the face, hands or feet and then spreads to other parts of the body,” Tosh said. “But in cases linked to the outbreak that started in 2022, the rash often started in the genital area, mouth or throat. The mpox rash goes through many stages...
T.O. was quickly used by SH and his students to treat gonorrhoea, benign or malignant tumours and the frequent smallpox vaccine complications [9]. Its success continues two centuries later because, with almost 3 million units prescribed per year, T.O. is the 6th most prescribe homeopathic me...
In two studies in ICU patients, <5.5% of mechanically venti- lated patients with VAP had a respiratory sample posi- tive for respiratory viruses [6,72,78] and in many of these cases the mechanical ventilation duration before virus detection may have indicated carriage before ICU admission. ...
Smallpox virus could not survive for long outside a human host. And there needs to be a concerted and sustained global commitment to the eradication of a disease. Polio, for example, has experienced significant public health investment, and had a 99 percent drop in cases since 1988, but is...