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Measles cases in the United States and Canada Health authorities report a decrease in measles vaccinations due to some epidemic outbreaks; in fact, this viral disease can also be very dangerous, especially in children under the age of five. This virus can easily spread through the air, causing cough, fever, reddish and pink spots on the skin, and can lead to respiratory and neurological complications, pneumonia, and brain damage. For children meningitis and encephalitis can cause health issues that last a lifetime, so it is undoubtedly healthy to vaccinate them with two doses, generally the first at twelve to fifteen months of age and the second before starting school, which helps protect the entire body. Ten days is the incubation period for the measles virus, and spots (rash) often appear on the face and mouth. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 27, 2025 
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 A new coronavirus under study The new coronavirus discovered by researchers belonging to the merbecovirus subvariant has been called Hku5-Cov-2 and like the SARS-CoV-2 virus it exploits the same infection mechanism (the spike protein) to infect cells and therefore able to infect humans. It is potentially pandemic but it seems that it is less virulent than risky variants of SARS-CoV-2 even if it is necessary to maintain high attention and continue to monitor the situation. It should be noted changing the subject but remaining on health issues that Canada would have purchased five hundred thousand doses of vaccines to protect the people most at risk from avian flu in the event of exposure and even indirect contact with infected animals such as saliva, mucus and feces; then there are cases in the United States in which humans have infected domestic cats with avian flu. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 22, 2025 n: 5881 Avian flu disinfection in New York The New York authorities would have announced five days of suspension of market activities to proceed with cleaning and disinfection due to cases of avian flu infections; a measure that extends to the counties of Westchester, Suffolk and Nassau to prevent further spread of infections. There is talk of some health concern even if for the moment international organizations say that the risk to the population from H5N1 avian influenza remains low, but recently a man (already in precarious health conditions) died after being exposed to the contagion of a "combination" of viruses from poultry and wild birds. Since April nearly seventy people in the United States have been infected with bird flu, most of them people who had been infected for close contact with saliva, mucus and animal feces. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 08, 2025 n: 5869 Prevention in rat-infested cities Climate change could worsen the situation in cities already infested with rats, at least according to a study that showed the correlation between average temperatures and rat populations in these cities. Apparently these rodents like higher temperatures and this has already been monitored in eleven cities (such as New York, Washington, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Toronto..) known for difficulty in limiting the rat population; therefore prevention measures should be prepared to limit this unhealthy proliferation. Some say that for every rat that is seen to be there are probably ten more and it is appropriate to mobilize to avoid a possible "invasion" and consequent difficult disinfestation interventions, adopting preventive measures such as avoiding leaving food easily available to rats. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 01, 2025 n: 5863 Varicella virus reactivation and cardiovascular events In the event that the varicella-zoster virus reactivates (also called St. Anthony's fire in jargon) not only can painful events and various complications occur but also increase the risk of rare cardiovascular problems, so it would be necessary to take preventive measures especially in patients suffering from diseases of the cardiovascular system. There is talk of a clear increase in the risk of myocardial infarction up to cardiac arrest in patients where the annoying shingles with previous cardiovascular problems occurs. With the average increase in the age of the world population, the incidence of herpes-zoster cases is expected to increase, then as age advances immunocompromised conditions are more frequent and therefore this can cause the varicella-zoster virus that has remained silent to re-emerge. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 31, 2024 n: 5837 Emergency in California for H5N1 avian flu After the severe case of avian influenza, Louisiana (linkable with partial genetic examination to wild birds and farmed poultry) California declared a state of health emergency for avian influenza H5N1 for the spread of cases in farms, but health authorities would have stated that the risk for humans remains low and cases of person-to-person infections have not been documented. To prevent cases of H5 avian influenza, it is necessary to reduce exposure to saliva, mucus and feces of animals as much as possible. To report by changing the subject but remaining on healthy issues that the health authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have declared that the mysterious disease (one hundred and forty-three victims in November) circulating in the south-west of the province of Kwango is actually a severe form of malaria, but some say that further investigations should be carried out on cases. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 19, 2024 n: 5829 Expansion of Dengue-affected territories in Vietnam Vietnamese health authorities warn that the territories where Dengue is endemic continue to expand, then this fever would be becoming increasingly dangerous and unpredictable even if the death toll lately is lower when compared to last year. In the past the Mekong Delta and the central coast were particularly affected by Dengue fever, but it is spreading to areas in the southeast, north-central and in regions of the central highlands; so even in places to the north such as Hanoi and other mountainous provinces cases are beginning to be recorded. To be noted changing the subject but remaining on health issues the investigations into a virus (defined as mysterious, perhaps respiratory) that is causing dozens of victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo, apparently affecting mainly very young individuals in very poor areas of the country. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 07, 2024 n: 5819 Case examinations in Canada of bird flu Bird flu A H5N1 is very contagious for geese but considered not serious, then it infects various species of birds and sometimes even mammals; now a case of contagion in a boy in British Columbia in serious condition has turned the spotlight on the first human H5N1 domestic case in Canada and the tests would have detected the origin of local poultry farms where avian flu has spread (the version is not the same as genomic sequencing carried out farms in the United States). For the moment according to experts the risk that avian influenza can spread to humans remains low, but it is high in those who expose themselves without protection to infected animals; then the people who had had contact with the boy were tested negative. Milk and its pasteurized products are safe even if generally it is necessary to maintain high surveillance. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 15, 2024 n: 5800 Suspected H5N1 virus in park with feline in Vietnam The samples analyzed in a laboratory in the Ho Chi Minh city in Vietnam would have advanced to the health authorities the high suspicion that the cause of the death of forty-four tigers, three lions and a leopard in two tourist sites in the provinces of Dong Nai and Long An in the south of the country may have been the H5N1 avian flu, then there is talk of investigations into other cases in safari parks. Three people who have been in close contact with animals that fell ill before death have been identified, the virus (which usually infects birds and poultry farms in many countries in Southeast Asia) can be transmitted to humans, so they are trying to trace the cases. Shifting attention to Italy, an outbreak of about one hundred cases of dengue in Fano in the Marche region, distributed products to avoid being bitten and the proliferation of mosquitoes. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 03, 2024 n: 5764 Knowledge to be learned about mpox variants Tests should be conducted to understand what the differences are regarding infections from variants of monkeypox (mpox); in fact, apparently the researchers say that caution is needed before declaring for example that the Calde 1 variant is associated with a higher mortality rate than Clade 2, then also with regard to the Clade 1b subvariant perhaps it is an evolution that spreads among humans, possibly even more virulent than the zoonosis Clade 1 (now called Clade 1a) which usually affected infected animals and in a more limited way the men in specific communities. In the meantime while some say that mpox will not be a new Covid there is talk of a case identified in Thailand of a new variant, then in Indonesia the level of attention towards the virus has been raised with dozens of laboratories equipped for viral tests. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 23, 2024 n: 5729 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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