Medicine - Health
High alert for hand, foot and mouth disease
Hand, foot and mouth disease is currently causing many worries and confusion for many parents, because of the complicated situation, the number of children with serious…
Infectious Diseases
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Articles about Infectious Diseases
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Medicine - Health
The risk of infection when sharing steam instruments
A new study shows that the use of wood-based wind instruments has increased the risk of infection with saliva-borne diseases, especially in schools.
Medicine - Health
The risk of dispersing smallpox virus through biological weapons
Russia and the US say that more research is needed to create safer vaccines against deadly diseases that have been wiped out more than 30 years ago.
Medicine - Health
Inject with tape
The Georgia Institute of Technology at Emory University in collaboration with the nonprofit organization PATH (USA) is working on making a tape that can be vaccinated ...
Medicine - Health
Artificial light is easy to cause infectious disease
Artificial light alters the behavior of humans and insects, thereby increasing the risk of infection.
Medicine - Health
Vitamins and infectious diseases
Adding to the diet of vitamins A, vitamins B, C, and E will help improve the treatment results of infectious diseases, including tuberculosis. That is the new research r…
Cancer
Who is at risk for hepatitis C?
Babies born to mothers infected with virus C; having sex or contact with an infected person's epidemic; poorly cleaned tattooing tools ... can get hepatitis C.
Food safety
95% of people wash their hands the wrong way when going to the toilet
After using the toilet, up to 95% of people do not wash their hands properly and long enough to kill harmful bacteria, according to a new study conducted in the US.
Flu epidemic
The risk of a H7N9 outbreak in winter in China
A 35-year-old man in China has just discovered influenza H7N9, showing
Flu epidemic
Japan alarmed for H3N2 flu
Just last week the number of reported cases of H3N2 in Japan skyrocketed by 620,000 patients, to 1.73 million. Most of them are students and the elderly.
Flu epidemic
ADB helps Vietnam control infectious diseases
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced to spend $ 49 million on an infectious disease control project in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
Flu epidemic
The Ministry of Health urgently requires flu prevention
Currently, the situation of influenza in many localities in the country is also on the rise, the number of cases of hospitalized flu is increasing in some end-line hospi…
New technology
Technology for detecting HIV by telephone
A newly invented technology device that can detect early infectious diseases such as HIV or syphilis.
New technology
New anti-bacterial material
By using the most advanced technology, scientists from the University of Nottingham (UK) have discovered a new type of polymer that is resistant to clinging.
New technology
Using infrared sensor technology to fabricate behavior monitoring system
Irisys, UK, conducted initial testing of hand washing monitoring (using infrared sensor) monitoring systems at the NHS trust Institute in London, where health workers wo…