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Preventive antibiotics sometimes unhealthy A study carried out in a hospital in Norway from 2017 to 2021 on over two thousand hundred patients to verify the percentage of survival in patients with respiratory infections within thirty days through the administration of antibiotics would have shown that there are no substantial advantages and indeed this practice could develop so-called super-resistant pathogens, also considering that in some countries antibiotics were prescribed to about seventy percent of Covid-19 patients. These are data not yet published at the medical level, but given that the abuse of antibiotics is becoming a global threat since many microbes are now resistant to every available therapy it is evident that they could be useful to understand how even an exaggerated prevention and with drugs that should be administered only in carefully evaluated cases can be unhealthy. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 27, 2023 
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 Marburg virus outbreak in Equatorial Guinea The province of Kien-Ntem in Equatorial Guinea, on the border with Cameroon and Gabon, according to the health authorities would be at the origin of the epidemic of the Marburg hemorrhagic virus which has a percentage of death in patients affected almost like Ebola; seven victims to which perhaps another twenty suspected cases must be added. This virus is named after the German city of Marburg where it was identified in 1967 in patients (working in a laboratory) infected with monkeys from Uganda. Human-to-human transmission occurs with blood or other fluids and the percentage of death monitored in a previous wave of infections from twenty-four to eighty-eight percent depending also on viral load, strain of the virus and specific case under examination; then vaccines or antiviral treatments are not available even if is evaluate how to adapt therapies already available. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 24, 2023 n°: 5293 Covid-19 seen by some as normal flu The Covid-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus according to the opinion of international health organizations is close to the point of being considered as a normal seasonal flu given the decline in cases of cases monitored in a month globally, but apparently in Europe they have not dropped significantly even if the situation has generally improved. For example in Italy in a week over twenty-three thousand infections (over one percent less than the previous one) with two hundred and twelve victims (almost two percent less than the previous one); so a possible infection is not to be underestimated especially for fragile people with weakened immune systems and in particular obese people. As for the total number of victims since the beginning of the pandemic in Italy, it is estimated over one hundred and eighty thousand, it is difficult to calculate how many are really attributable to Covid. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 18, 2023 n°: 5288 Important to discover the origins of Covid-19 According to the opinions of international health organizations it would be important to find out what the real origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic and investigate all the hypotheses in order to be prepared in the event of other epidemics. Taking adequate measures to deal with the pandemic could probably have avoided one million three hundred thousand victims, then a large number of people in the world are forced to live with illnesses caused by the so-called "long covid" (up to having to limit their activities); so as always prevention remains the first therapeutic device. As for the use of masks while some say that they are still necessary others recommend them especially to fragile people while in countries like Japan where the population was already partly accustomed to wearing them it seems that it will remain a widespread use. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 14, 2023 n°: 5284 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 n°: 5275 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 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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