PersonalityNeurotic DisordersSex FactorsThe authors point out that there is a large overlap between the symptoms ascribed to anaemia, those ascribed to high blood pressure, and certain physical symptoms found in neurotic illness. The authors postulate that some patients with these conditions share a ...
Swine flu (H1N1, H3N2) is a respiratory illness. The swine flu viruses that infect pigs can change, easily transmitting the virus to humans. Get the facts on swine flu (swine influenza A H1N1 virus) history, symptoms, how this contagious infection is tra
Influenza D:This virus mostly infects cattle and isn’t known at this time to cause illness in humans. What sets influenza viruses apart is the rate at which they mutate. Influenza A viruses change more rapidly than influenza B ones. These changes are slight, but enough so that our immune...
Both versions can spread quickly through bird flocks and may cause serious illness in humans. This is important because birds infected with LPAI viruses may show little or no sign of disease before passing the disease to other animals or humans. ...
A novel nairovirus associated with acute febrile illness in Hokkaido, Japan Here, Kodama et al. describe the discovery, isolation and characterization of a novel tick-borne orthonairovirus, designated Yezo virus (YEZV), from patients with an acute febrile illness in Japan. Serological testing of...
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis(ADEM), also called noninfectious encephalitis, constitutes one-third of all known cases of encephalitis. It is not caused by a virus, although it most often develops in patients two to three weeks after recovery from a viral illness. (It does not affect childr...
Some dogs and cats have tested positive for the virus. A few have shown signs of illness. There's no evidence that humans can catch this coronavirus from an animal, but it appears it can be passed from humans to animals. What is community spread?
Influenza, commonly called "the flu," is an illness caused by RNA viruses (Orthomyxoviridae family) that infect the respiratory tract of many animals, birds, and humans. In most people, the infection results in the person getting a fever, cough, headache, and malaise (tired, no energy); so...
So, just what is this illness? The novel coronavirus is a new disease strain in a family of viruses called “coronaviruses,” which were discovered in the late 1960s. They cause everything from mild to severe upper-respiratory tract illnesses (plus a range of other documented symptoms) and...
The researchers compared the patients, who had suffered bouts of constipation for an average of 21 years, with a group of women with no history of gastrointestinal illness. All took standard tests that measure psychological symptoms such as anxiety and depression, self-image, social functioning and...