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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: Sep 27, 2025 
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 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: Sep 17, 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: Sep 06, 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: May 15, 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: Apr 03, 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: Apr 11, 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: Apr 08, 2025 n°: 5919 Zoster vaccine possibly decreases dementia Getting vaccinated against the varicella-zoster virus (shingles or so-called "St. Anthony's Fire") could get dementia minus twenty percent, at least according to a study still in the early stages that would have found greater effectiveness in women, but researchers warn to remain above all socially and intellectually active as well as controlling blood pressure and for diabetics to control high blood sugar values that would always be linked to cognitive decline. It should be noted changing the subject but remaining on health issues that often the diseases caused by fungi are becoming more and more resistant to available medicines and this can lead to serious consequences and even to the death for example of patients affected by mucormycosis, is talk about climate change that favors the proliferation of fungi and how we try to find a solution in these cases. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 04, 2025 n°: 5916 Significant health challenges in Myanmar The lack of water, hygiene and basic necessities after the strong earthquake that struck Myanmar (there is talk of over two thousand seven hundred victims, four hundred and forty missing and four thousand five hundred injured) are causing considerable health difficulties in the country and international organizations warn to intervene with aid before the monsoon season; also considering that many people do not have a shelter and live on the streets. It should be noted changing the subject but remaining on health issues that to combat microorganisms that have developed antibiotic resistance, researchers have recently experimented with a new class of antibiotics that could be used for new antimicrobial medicines useful in potentially life-threatening situations, such as pneumonia or urinary tract infections; but we're still in the early stages of development. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 02, 2025 n°: 5914 More avian flu infections in the U.S. The situation regarding the trend of avian flu infections in the United States is not very reassuring according to experts since from 2022 the H5N1 strain has infected chickens, cows and cats; then almost one hundred and sixty-seven million birds infected and seventy people while with spring is speak of migration season (for example to Canada). Recently infections of the H7N9 avian influenza strain have also been monitored in Mississippi, which adds other concerns; in fact, it causes a percentage of deaths higher than H5N1, it seems that almost forty percent of infected humans have lost their lives since this new strain of avian flu was discovered in 2013, so in this case the infected birds were promptly killed. Some say that the H5N1 strain is only missing a genetic step for a potential possible pandemic. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 21, 2025 n°: 5904 Health and Wellness  ... ^ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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