Speech-generated droplets and COVID-19 transmission
News | May 15, 2020 11:55 ISTResearchers report that airborne droplets produced through speech could be a potentially significant mode of COVID-19 transmission.
Researchers report that airborne droplets produced through speech could be a potentially significant mode of COVID-19 transmission.
Disease control strategies employed by governments can dramatically alter the evolution of pathogens like the novel coronavirus, according to a study which says such measures can change the extent of symptoms a spreading virus causes in infected individuals.
Among adults at high risk of liver cancer, those who took low-dose aspirin were less likely to develop the disease or to die from liver-related causes.
The novel coronavirus situation in the country was under control, the Union Health Secretary said on Friday after a meeting to review preparedness for prevention and management of the deadly infection.
Researchers conducted a study on the interaction of the malaria parasite with the human red blood cells, the study was aimed at shedding more light on this complex interplay.
In a first, researchers have shown that proteins in the legs of malaria carrying mosquitoes help them develop resistant to insecticides, an advance that may lead to new strategies against the disease which kills nearly 4,00,000 people each year.
According to Wood, once researchers know the association between snail presence and particular habitat features, they can use drone and satellite imagery to detect those habitat features.
The prime concern for the state health authorities is the possible outbreak of epidemic diseases in the flood-hit areas once the water vanishes, Jalandhar Medical Officer A S Duggal said.
According to a study, unsupportive parenting styles may have several negative health implications for children including premature ageing and higher disease risk later in life.
Father of the kid works as an Arabic interpreter. He earns around Rs 8,000 a month.
As on Sunday, 40 cases of leptospirosis were reported in the state. Kozhikode reported 28 such cases while the rest were from Alappuzha, Thrissur and Pathanamthitta.
Irrfan has shared that he has a rare disease and has requested people not to speculate.
The study identified that some ant species make use of powerful antimicrobial agents.
The battery was created by building microbial fuel cells with inactive, freeze-dried exoelectrogenic cells.
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WHO has warned the citizens of Yemen that a quarter of a million people could fall sick with the disease cholera by the end of the year there.
The Health Ministry started tracking cases of microcephaly in India in February 2016, after the World Health Organization (WHO) requested countries to track and report cases.
Experts suggests reduction in alcohol consumption and change in diet by eliminating certain nutrients relieve perspiration.
Having antibiotics is therefore worst for health, because it effectively and completely vanishes the very natural bodily mechanism that protects us against all disease in the first place - the immune system - which may never fully recover by itself.
The district health department is taking all these efforts to start this programme. This is because diseases like H1N1 and diphtheria are communicable and has high chances for spread. As said by District medical officer Dr N K Kuttappan.
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