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Atypical case of so-called mad cow disease in Brazil A case of spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a nine-year-old cattle in Brazil's Para state defined as atypical by health authorities has caused a halt to meat exports in some countries although it is said that this ban should soon be overcome. It seems that an atypical case of "mad cow" can happen spontaneously in a farm and does not depend on food contaminated with abnormal pathogens called prions, but further investigation will have to be carried out since prion contamination in proteins in the brains of cattle generally involves an automatic block of exports. Of note changing the subject but remaining on healthy issues the controversy in Italy after the investigation on the first Covid-19 wave which established that it would have been possible to save over four thousand people by isolating the Val Seriana at the end of February 2020. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 03, 2023 
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 Analysis of avian influenza case in Cambodia A preliminary genetic sequencing performed by the Cambodian health authorities on two cases (a girl and the father) of H5N1 avian influenza in the country would have shown that it is the same clade 2.3.4.4b identified in 2020 that caused a death of many birds but is not transmitted from human to human. This even if from a certain reassuring point of view should not decrease the attention on these cases of contagion; in fact, are becoming more and more frequent in the world and it is feared sooner or later eventually the jump of species passing from infected mammals to man. A coordinated response to the cases monitored is needed, and in countries such as Vietnam for example this is already being done; then, as always happens in the procedure to handle birds killed by the virus, great attention must be paid to accidental contamination. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 27, 2023 n°: 5271 Disinfectants needed in Turkey and Syria The many lifeless bodies of people extracted from the rubble of buildings collapsed due to the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria are most often lying along the roads with consequent hygiene problems, then there are no disinfectants for injured people who risk serious infections even fatal and emergency toilets should be set up to avoid epidemics. Not very clear the death toll between over thirty-three thousand and almost forty thousand (some say it could reach fifty thousand and more) while rescuers continue to save people after six days operating in difficult conditions and there is also the problem of looters. It is very cold for people who have to resist in tents, cars, makeshift shelters and lack basic necessities in an emergency difficult to manage. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 13, 2023 n°: 5259 Considerations on end of nCov emergency in U.S. The US authorities would have announced that in May the end of the Covid-19 emergency began three years ago in January 2020 will be declared, there is also talk of a decision that could cause uncertainty in the health system already in some cases put under pressure by the measures necessary to deal with the pandemic. The situation has improved in many countries thanks to vaccinations and new fairly effective medicines, but the unknown remains on the trend of infections due to the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus considered very able to circumvent the immune defenses trained by vaccines and vaccination boosters or previous infections; then, even if not more severe than other subvariants, it should be taken into account the remarkable ability to infect many people in a short time, so it is generally better to keep its virulence under control with masks and distancing. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 31, 2023 n°: 5248 Attention in some countries on children's syrups Following more than three hundred cases of deaths of children (most under the age of five, from acute kidney injury) that occurred last year in The Gambia, Indonesia and Uzbekistan due to cough syrups with high levels of ethylene-diethylene glycol the international health authorities warn to take effective measures to protect children from contaminated medicines. These toxic chemicals used for industrial solvents and antifreeze liquids can be fatal even if taken in small quantities and should never be found in medicines, then many countries should keep in mind that these are not just isolated accidents. For some specific similar medicines requests for removal from shelves had also been issued, while manufacturers generally deny that their products are contaminated or claim that investigations are necessary. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 24, 2023 n°: 5242 Study in Asia on mosquitoes that transmit Dengue The Aedes aegypti mosquito that carries Dengue hemorrhagic fever and other diseases (such as Zika and yellow fever) in Asia and especially in Cambodia would be becoming very resistant to common pyrethrum-based insecticides, at least according to a study that warns how for example the levels of insecticide that are used to eliminate one hundred percent of mosquitoes in a sample eliminate only seven percent; then a ten times stronger dose eliminates only thirty percent of insects that have become super resistant. In addition to new more effective formulations are being developed vaccines and bacteria to sterilize mosquitoes, but more research will need to be done to protect communities. To be reported changing the subject but remaining on healthy issues that China after the criticism of unreliable Covid data provided lately has communicated almost sixty thousand victims. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 16, 2023 n°: 5235 Fear nCov for senior during holidays in China For the Chinese Lunar New Year (January 21) millions of people move to the Asian country for the holidays and the health authorities fear for the fate of the most fragile elderly, many also not sufficiently vaccinated, who could be infected by family members who from the end of the zero Covid strategy can move freely and without controls. The officially declared victims according to some are widely underestimated and international organizations warn that it is not even clear what kind of variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is spreading in the population. Complaints come from rural areas of the country about the crowding of hospitals, the lack of doctors, medicines, tests and care due to the disparity compared to better assisted areas; then the medical staff is exhausted and there is a shortage of equipment and appropriate expertise. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 12, 2023 n°: 5232 Study on the trend of an nCoV subvariant The increase in cases of contagion due to the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus seems to be linked to a greater number of Covid-19 hospitalizations, at least in some regions of the United States where this subvariant would be spreading and is present in over forty percent of the diagnostic kits-swabs examined. This subvariant defined as very contagious and rather adept at circumventing the immune defenses enhanced by vaccines or previous Covid infections has been identified in twenty-nine countries and is the result of a recombination of the virus in a person infected at the same time with two strains of the virus in the replication phase. There is no indication whether it may be more severe than other subvariants although it could add up as adverse effects to other flu viruses that in practice always affect the respiratory tree. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 09, 2023 n°: 5229 Monitoring trends in Covid cases in Italy The Italian health authorities even in the absence of the detection of new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in travelers from China (it would be from the first data only of Omicron subvariants, pending further genetic sequencing that require time for processing) would have suggested greater vigilance on the trend of infections; there is talk of possible ordinances while in two days there will be a meeting of European countries regarding the measures to be taken on Chinese passengers of air flights and various journeys. To be reported changing the subject but remaining on health issues that using the mRNA technology of Covid vaccines researchers are trying to develop vaccines against tumors that from the first laboratory tests, still in the experimental phase, would have shown promise as efficacy. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 02, 2023 n°: 5224 Heavy Covid wave in Japan The health authorities of Japan have to face a wave of SARS-CoV-2 virus of unusual intensity for this country with even over two hundred thousand infections every day and increasing compared to the previous week; then there is talk of record victims, four hundred and fifteen in a single day the highest monitored since the pandemic began in one day. In the last seven days Japan has the highest number of confirmed cases of infections in the world and in second place for the number of victims after the United States, at least according to data from international organizations. To report shifting attention to China the spread of Covid infections that perhaps had begun well before the end of the decision to disable population tracking given the high number of infections in percentages detected in the United States and Italy in people coming from air flights from China. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 30, 2022 n°: 5222 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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