Mucormycosis: 6 persons detected with Black Fungus in Patna
India | May 14, 2021 13:57 ISTWhile corona wreaks havoc in Bihar, cases of Black Fungus have also been detected in Patna.
While corona wreaks havoc in Bihar, cases of Black Fungus have also been detected in Patna.
On Sunday, in the 'Jeetga India, Harega Corona' conclave, doctors discussed Mucormycosis, and how is it attacking the eyes of COVID 19 patients.
Uttar Pradesh Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad informed that the state has reported 12,787 fresh COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours.
Amid increasing COVID-19 cases in state, Madhya Pradesh government has announced lockdown in all urban areas starting from April 09, 6 pm to April 11 6 am.
The study, published in the journal PNAS found that different nutrients and antioxidants, such as vitamin C and other normally cell-protective substances leak from the blood, thereby creating an environment in the lungs that favours the growth of the bacteria.
In a rare incident, a patient has cleared functional HIV infection without outside help. This may the first known instance of a spontaneous cure. According to reports, over 1-5 billion cells of this patient was analysed and it showed no functional HIV copies in any of them. However, the person still has some non-functional copies of the virus.
According to the survey with a sample size of 1,723, when asked how strongly do you agree or disagree with the following statement -- I am afraid that either myself or someone in my family may actually catch the coronavirus -- 59.9 per cent of the respondents agreed, while 34.9 per cent disagreed.
A study by Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland has revealed that Covid-19 infection makes a patient susceptible to developing bacterial infections. This, in turn, may increase the risk of death in a patient.
Continuous surveillance and testing for the novel coronavirus are critical for identifying and preventing the transmission of 'silent infections' by people who do not show any symptoms but carry the virus that causes the deadly COVID-19 disease, according to a leading virologist.
A 45-year-old woman, who returned from Iran, tested positive for the deadly coronavirus in Pakistan, taking the total number of the COVID-19 infections in the country to five, officials said on Tuesday.
The Telangana government said on Saturday that 11 of the 18 samples tested for the novel coronavirus in the state have turned out to be negative.
The disease is caused by the bite of infected female phlebotomine sandflies, an official said. The health department has started spraying insecticides in the village in an effort to stop the disease from spreading.
The crocodile is currently being treated by the Wildlife SOS veterinarians. A veterinarian said that close inspection revealed that one-third of the crocodile's snout had been ripped off in the accident.
"Our data demonstrate for the first time that ocean water exposure can alter the diversity and composition of the human skin microbiome," said Marisa Chattman Nielsen, a PhD student at the University of California, Irvine in the US.
The results showed that before swimming all individuals had different communities from one-another on their skin but after swimming they all had similar communities.
Previous research has shown that skin bacteria can protect the animals by producing fungi-fighting compounds.
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A daily dose of baking soda may help reduce the destructive inflammation of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.
To protect individual and public health, it is important to ensure women in areas with high rates of HIV infection have access to affordable contraceptive options.
Some mothers produce milk sugars that make the bacteria more susceptible to common antibiotics.
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