On Saturday 4 July, a man in Eastern China was diagnosed of the bubonic plague and he is currently under isolation in a local hospital where in his being treated. His situation was confirmed by Bayannur city health commission of the country as they revealed a case of bubonic plague was detected in a herdsman…
World Zoonoses Day, 6 July. This day was chosen in 1885 to commemorate Biologist Louis Pasteur who successfully administered the first vaccine against rabies virus, which is a deadly zoonotic virus which take dogs as its host. The significance of World Zoonoses Day feels more germane this year with the world overwhelmed by COVID-19 and…
Though considered a seasonal flu, an outbreak of an influenza A virus also identified as H1N1 virus was first documented in 1918 during the Spanish flu outbreak while the second occurred between January 2009 and August 2010. Unlike the Spanish flu outbreak, the 2009 outbreak was of a novel strain of H1N1 virus and was…
With the infectivity rate of COVID-19, surviving it wouldn’t be a walk in the park as the immune system must have worked extremely hard to ward off the dreadful virus. In addition to what the body went through, the mind which is a vital of the body must have endured a lot of scenarios during…