World Health Organization has rushed teams of doctors to Hinduja National Hospital in Mumbai, India, where 12 cases of totally drug resistant or TDR mode of tuberculosis have been reported. Three patients are now dead. India has become one of…
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Bacteria can be present in snow Many people remember the tongue in cheek comments made concerning eating of yellow snow however, recent investigations have now reviewed that it is no longer merely the yellow snow which one should not digest….
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Various types of protozoan infective organisms are responsible for plenty of human misery. Ingested in contaminated water or injected by a feeding insect, they cause diseases ranging from malaria to encephalitis. Protozoan is an inexact term for one-celled organisms with…
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The Ebola virus was discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976 and is named after a river in that country. Since that time it has shown up in several different African countries and has been responsible for…
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According to the FDA “Giardiasis is the most frequent cause of non-bacterial infection in North America”. About 2 million people in the U.S. get it every year. It also occurs world wide, infecting an estimated 200 million people. This disease…
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As flu season 2012/13 approaches, the CDC, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, has released a report that has caused a great deal of concern among parents of children with neurological disorders. In the report, which was released on August…
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On Saturday, August 23rd., 2008, the Public Health Agency of Canada announced that 21 cases of a deadly listeriosis outbreak have been confirmed and another 30 are under investigation. Of the confirmed cases, sixteen have occurred in Ontario, three in…
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Bird flu, also called avian flu or Asian bird flu, is caused by a virus that normally only infects birds (and in rare cases pigs). The bird flu is a strain of influenza virus known as H5N1. The first historical…
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There is no question that pestilence plays a major role in population growth; or the lack thereof. In the 14th century, the Bubonic Plague wiped out a third of Europe’s inhabitants; or roughly 25 million people. AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency…
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Bacteria have been becoming resistant to antibiotics since time immemorial. In 1877, the father of modern microbiology, Lois Pasteur, noted that some bacteria secrete compounds that kill other bacteria. These compounds now termed antibiotics are part of Nature’s ongoing arms…
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