Category Archives: Pandemic
Another TB Scare In San Francisco
TB popping up again: A case of tuberculosis that may have exposed others to the infectious bacterial disease was reported at the San Diego Continuing Education’s Mid-City campus, the county Health and Human Services Agency announced Monday. So far this … Continue reading
15 Moroccan Teenagers Treated For Rabies After Sex With Donkey
Makes you wonder who gave who the rabies: Fifteen minors who sexually assaulted a donkey in the small rural town of Sidi Kamel in the communal providence of Sidi Kacem have been treated for rabies infections received from the animal. … Continue reading
43% Of Some Refugees Have Latent TB
Wow: Recent arrivals from Somalia and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa were among the refugees interviewed for possible jobs by 30 Starbucks managers at a hiring event in El Cajon, California on Tuesday as part of the company’s commitment to … Continue reading
Flu To Begin Being Seen In All Seasons
India thinks so: Chandigarh: Bad news for those who got themselves vaccinated against swine flu for the season as this will provide little protection against the present strain of the virus, which has changed, claim experts. In the absence of … Continue reading
HIV Overcoming Drugs That Prevent Transmission – Is It Replicating In GI Bacteria?
HIV Is Defeating The PrEP Drug Regimen’s Transmission Prevention: Researchers have established the third case of an HIV infection while under HIV PrEP regimen on a daily basis in a research study conducted in Amsterdam known as AMPrEP. The discovery … Continue reading
Cuba Has A Public Sex Problem – And A Low-Birthrate Problem
Rabbitry is bad for reproduction: Western culture isn’t going to end with a whimper, nor with a bang — but rather just a lack of fruitful bangs and Big Brother and Sister pleading with citizens to change that. Let’s begin … Continue reading
Hepatitis Outbreak In San Diego
Probably another benefit of importing diversity: Health officials on July 28 confirmed three additional deaths in San Diego County’s ongoing hepatitis A outbreak, bringing the total number of deaths related to the outbreak, which began in November, to eight. County … Continue reading
AIDS Is Growing Drug Resisitant
A K-stimulus all its own: The latest statistics came out this week in two reports, one by the United Nations AIDS agency, the other by the World Health Organization. Here’s the epidemic today, by the numbers: 36.7 million – The … Continue reading
Drug Resistant Gonorrhea Emerges
Incurable infertility, spread by sex: Untreatable strains of gonorrhoea are on the rise, the World Health Organization has warned, fuelling fears that last-resort drugs will soon be futile after three confirmed cases in which antibiotics were ineffective. Gonorrhoea is the … Continue reading
SoCal Tuberculosis Scare
This one was at a gym: Solano County Public Health is looking for members of the 24-Hour Fitness gym in Vallejo who may have been exposed to tuberculosis Patrons at 24-Hour Fitness gym in Vallejo are on edge after a … Continue reading