China has gone in a few days from the certainty of the Zero Covid policy to what appears to be an absence of plans. Infections are increasing, the health system is in an emergency, intensive care is increasing and stocks in blood banks are decreasing. And another alarm comes from the United States: for the … Read more
Experts are sounding the alarm: there is a boom in intensive care admissions among newborns due to the RSV syncytial virus. What are the symptoms Posted on: 2022-12-20 12:17 FREELANCE JOURNALIST Freelance journalist since 2014, I mainly deal with geopolitical analysis and foreign policy. I play electric guitar and I love rock and metal. The … Read more
There is concern in Italian hospitals for the syncytial virus Rsv mainly affecting children and infants. According to the experts of the Italian Society of Neonatology (Sin) the virus is spreading more strongly than in other years and there is a peak in hospitalizations of children under two years of age, even in intensive care. … Read more
Influenza: we are marching quickly towards the peak of infections, which should be at Christmas, earlier than in the past. Between 28 November and 4 December (the latest bulletin issued by the Higher Institute of Health) the Italian average incidence was 16 cases per thousand assisted (it was 13.1 in the previous week). Emilia Romagna … Read more
After two years now, we don’t stop talking about Covid as it would seem that new information emerges every day. In this case, a team of scientists from the University of Southampton has discovered that the virus is more resistant on some surfaces than on others. All of this was discovered through a test for … Read more
It begins. Among other things, earlier than in previous years (Covid pandemic aside). Yes, because in almost all the hospitals in the region we are already running out of beds available. As if to say that such a small number remains that the health authorities are forced to run for cover to find places for … Read more
A new hope of treatment for HIV-infected children comes from the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital on the eve of World AIDS Day, 1 December. Doctors and researchers have managed to develop a new procedure capable of characterizing the residual viral load and the associated protective immune response present in patients, identifying those children in which … Read more
from Chiara Daina The Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are studying a diagnostic procedure to characterize the viral residue inside infected cells at the molecular level To date there is no cure capable of permanently eliminating the HIV virus from the body. People living with this infection need to … Read more
from Christine Brown The increase in temperatures is causing the “awakening” of tens of thousands of years old pathogens. Seven “giant viruses” have retained their infectious capacity and have replicated in the laboratory Scientists have found out seven types of viruses that have been frozen and buried for thousands of years in the permafrost Siberian … Read more
“We don’t want i testwe want the freedom”; “Communist Party resign! Xi Jinping resign!”. On Saturday night hundreds of people marched along Urumqi Roadthe avenue of Shanghai which takes its name from the capital of the Xinjiang where ten people died in a fire on Thursday. In the autonomous region of China for years le … Read more