Month: June 2021

YEKATERINBURG, Russia — Patients with unexplained pneumonias started showing up at hospitals; within days, dozens were dead. The secret police seized doctors’ records and ordered them to keep silent. American spies picked up clues about a lab leak, but the local authorities had a more mundane explanation: contaminated meat. It took more than a decade for the truth to come out. In April and May 1979, at least 66 people died after airborne anthrax bacteria emerged from a military lab in the Soviet Union. But leading American scientists voiced confidence in the Soviets’ claim that the pathogen had jumped from animals to humans. Only after a full-fledged investigation in the 1990s did one of those scientists confirm the earlier suspicions: The accident in what is now the Russian Urals city o...

New Delhi — India's health infrastructure that nearly crumbled under a catastrophic second wave of coronavirus last month, is now faced with another challenge: A deadly fungal infection called Mucormycosis, common known as "black fungus." The country has reported more than 28,000 cases of the rare fungal infection, now increasingly seen in COVID-19 patients and survivors. More than 85% of the reported cases of mucormycosis, which has a high mortality rate, have a history of COVID-19, India's Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan said last week.  Coronavirus patients, particularly those with diabetes, are prone to the mucor mould that's primarily found in soil, manure, and decaying fruits and vegetables. It's dangerously prevalent where hygiene is lacking, like in some of the rural area...

Scientists unlock secret of how people die from a broken heart after tests reveal stressful life events increase levels of two key molecules in heart cells Stressful life events increase levels of molecules of 'broken heart syndrome'  Imperial College London paves way for new treatment to prevent future deaths  Syndrome occurs when the heart muscle becomes suddenly weakened   By Eleanor Hayward For The Daily Mail Published: 19:00 EDT, 20 June 2021 | Updated: 19:05 EDT, 20 June 2021 Scientists have identified why people sometimes die from a broken heart after grief or relationship breakdowns. They found stressful life events increase levels of two molecules in heart cells which play a crucial role in the development of takotsubo cardiomyopathy – or ‘broken ...

America may be done with coronavirus but the coronavirus is not done with America. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), just predicted the new Delta variant would become the predominant one in the USA. This is troubling news: The variant, first identified in India, is more transmissible that other forms of the virus, and more dangerous in certain ways. This is why Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist, Regents Professor, and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, went on CNN to sound an alarm. Read on for the 5 things you need to know to stay safe—and to ensure your health and the health of others, don't miss these Sur...

The UK’s vaccines watchdog is “closely monitoring” reports of women experiencing period irregularities after receiving their Covid vaccination, it has been reported. Data obtained by The Sunday Times showed that almost 4,000 reports have been made to the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) about period problems related to the jabs up to 17 May. The figure comprises 2,734 reports related to the AstraZeneca vaccine, 1,158 to the Pfizer vaccine and 66 to the Moderna vaccine. It comes after women from around the world took to social media to ask if early, heavy or painful periods might be an unlisted side effect of the jab. Dr Kate Clancy, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, received hundreds of responses when she asked if women ...

“So Connecticut, for example, where I am, shows no upsurge of infection, but Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri show very substantial upsurges of infections. That’s based entirely on how much population-wide immunity you have based on vaccination,” Gottlieb said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” program.