(The Monitor Daily, US) – On Friday, CDC has confirmed that 7 employees working for the Oregon Zoo have been infected with the lung debilitating disease. Zoo workers have been diagnosed with tuberculosis after handling several adult elephants. According to CDC’s report, the zookeepers working with the elephants have contracted the disease somewhere in 2013. The elephants … [Read more...]
Victorian Illnesses Are not out of Fashion
Keeping the pace with modern medicine, we sometimes nurture the thought that we somehow managed to eradicate illness which were potentially deadly during the last 3 centuries. It would seem that Victorian illnesses are not out of fashion, a fact which was confirmed by the U.K Health and Social Care Center. Far from us to even conceive that a disease represents either a … [Read more...]
Child with XDR TB Is in Remission
Official spokespersons from the Johns Hopkins Pediatric center have just announced that they have managed to successfully treat a young girl with a rare form of tuberculosis. Child with XDR TB is in remission and all lab test have confirmed it. The case itself is thoroughly documented and has been published in the November the 16th edition of The Lanced Infectious Disease … [Read more...]
