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Potentially pandemic avian influenza Due to outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza hundreds of millions of birds have been culled in recent years causing disruptions in food supply chains and rising prices, then the risk of a pandemic worse than that caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus for Covid-19 is increasing, although for the moment human infections remain quite rare. According to experts the problem is that the virus could adapt to infect mammals and then humans potentially leading to human-to-human transmission, but unlike SARS-CoV-2 which was mainly lethal for vulnerable individuals avian influenza could be deadly for healthy individuals, including children; however several antiviral medicines are available that should be effective against the avian influenza virus allowing for vaccine preparation. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 28/11/2025 
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 Study for a more proper use of antidepressants Noting an influence on weight, blood pressure and heart rate from the use of certain antidepressants, a study (fifty-eight thousand participants and thirty antidepressants in the first eight weeks of treatment) emphasizes how these medications can have significant side effects even after just a few weeks of use; therefore, an antidepressant should be targeted to the specific characteristics of an individual, raising questions about the interchangeability of this type of medicines, but without wanting to discourage the patient from potential use and aiming for a more proper use. To report changing the subject but remaining on salutary issues a Japanese study highlighted a relationship between COVID-related "brain fog" and an unusually high number of receptors involved in neurotransmission in the central nervous system. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 25/10/2025 n: 6088 Climate change favors cases of malaria Higher temperatures and flooding caused by climate change are believed to have increased areas suitable for mosquito breeding, according to a study that emphasizes how after two decades of progress in efforts to combat malaria (which is potentially fatal and impacts economies and living conditions), these gains could be undone due to limited funding for expensive prevention initiatives for growing human populations; additionally, medicines and insecticides have become less effective and global insecurity further weakens the effectiveness of interventions. In Rwanda for example mosquito breeding sites now exist even at high altitudes and the Asian Anopheles mosquito appears to have spread to Africa; then a vaccine is available but it is not very effective while awaiting a new formulation. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 21/10/2025 n: 6084 New increasingly challenges to protect the health The challenges in trying to protect health are becoming increasingly demanding; in fact, in addition to the usual pollution, with recent studies showing how an individual is exposed to the harmful effects of indiscriminate fossil fuel use from conception to death, there is also the increased risk to the cardiovascular system due to inhalation of fine particulate matter released by large fires that are often consuming forests around the world, then heatwaves further worsen the situation. The latest challenge is represented by artificial intelligence, but in this last case much depends on how it will be used although even just hearing about viruses designed using machine computing capabilities for "health" purposes (in cases of antibiotic resistance) or medicines formulated with artificial intelligence to address potential threats is concerning. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 27/09/2025 n: 6064 Vaccinations in Congo to tackle an Ebola outbreak In the Kasai province of the Democratic Republic of Congo vaccinations have begun for workers and individuals at higher risk to confront an Ebola outbreak that has caused at least sixteen deaths, with at least sixty-eight suspected cases; however the doses are scarce and funding is limited and international health organizations warn that the intervention is weak while the country is facing the dangerous virus for the sixteenth time. It is reported that only four hundred doses have been administered, with additional doses to be distributed later (two thousand may be found in the country and forty-five thousand will be provided then by an international coordinating group), but operations have been hindered by limited access and scarce available funds. Another issue is the conflicts especially in the eastern areas of the country which have damaged the healthcare system. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 17/09/2025 n: 6055 Wildfires have global health consequences Air quality has deteriorated for millions of people due to wildfires in the Amazon, Canada, and Siberia, at least according to statements from international organizations that emphasize how fine particulate matter with a diameter of less than two and a half micrometers (PM2.5) is considered particularly harmful as it can penetrate deep into the lungs and cardiovascular system. Moreover air quality is also related to climate change and both factors should be considered together. The wildfire seasons are getting longer and releasing large amounts of smoke that knows no boundaries; for example, wildfires in Canada worsen air quality even in Europe. It is worth noting changing the subject but remaining on health-related themes that the health emergency of mpox (caused by the monkeypox virus) is no longer an emergency in Africa. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 06/09/2025 n: 6046 Dengue and Chikungunya may soon be endemic in Europe Due to the rise in average temperatures the tiger mosquito that transmits the dengue and chikungunya viruses is reproducing increasingly further north and soon these diseases could become endemic in Europe, considering that nearly half of the global population is already at risk of contracting them, even though they were once typical diseases almost exclusively of tropical regions. In rare cases the fevers carried by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes can be fatal; however regarding Dengue some have defined it as the so-called breakbone fever because of the pains that patients sometimes experience in their bones. There are concerns that due to the growing tropicalization of European territories the Zika and West Nile viruses could also spread in the future (research is being conducted in these sectors) also carried by tiger mosquitoes. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 15/05/2025 n: 5949 Problematic flu season in the U.S. Initial data on deaths of children from influenza in the United States show a sharp increase compared to those recorded last year, considering that the flu season is not over and indeed in these periods it does not seem to be attenuating much as cases of contagion. There is talk of a drop in vaccinations for children from about sixty-four percent five years ago to forty-nine percent and even if vaccination does not prevent having symptoms it can prevent hospitalization and death. The flu is rated as very severe with adults and it is estimated that there have been forty-seven million infections, six hundred and ten thousand hospitalizations and twenty-six thousand victims. To be noted changing the subject but remaining on health issues such as in the Gaza Strip the lack of food and medicine is precipitating the situation, then an organism without adequate nutrition gets sick easily. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 03/05/2025 n: 5939 Dire health situation in Myanmar and Gaza The health emergency in Myanmar would not only be due to the earthquake but to the long period of civil war that has devastated the country with bloody clashes that have weakened, for example, the entire transport system, sometimes it takes hours to move even a few kilometers; in these conditions it is difficult to get medicines and health personnel; then many people live outdoors without shelters and basic necessities and are getting sick and the risk of epidemics increases. As far as the Gaza Strip, it seems that most of the hospitals are closed or difficult to use, others destroyed as well as most of the buildings and the population is forced to survive in a very small area with little food and water, without medicines and very harsh living conditions; international humanitarian organizations speak in figurative terms of a kind of extermination camp. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 11/04/2025 n: 5922 Measles alerts for many countries Many epidemic outbreaks of measles are possible in countries where the percentage of immunization is low, at least according to the opinion of experts who have made a list of states where there are many infections: Yemen, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Ethiopia, Romania, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan and Vietnam; then, for example, in areas of Canada such as Ontario, the number of monitored cases is so high (over six hundred) that the health authorities of the New York State Department in the United States warn travelers to take precautions by getting vaccinated before visiting Ontario or areas where there are numerous infections. Measles is a serious disease and does not always mean simply scratching a little and can cause pneumonia and even hospitalization and death of the patient; in addition, it must be borne in mind that measles is a very contagious virus, are talking about ninety percent of possibity for a person not vaccinated exposed to an infected person. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 08/04/2025 n: 5919 Health and Wellness * The author doesn't assume some kind of responsibility for the bad use of the articles councils (all rights are reserved) |
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