Researchers are reporting that a new disease is affflicting many in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms despite the patients not being infected with HIV.
The researchers do not believe the disease is infectious but like AIDS leaves the patients with damaged immune systems that leave them vulnerable to germs that an ordinary immune system can fend off. Continue reading
Ebola, the virus that kills up to 90% of those infected, has broken out in Uganda and now has killed one person in the capital city of Kampala. President Yoweri Museveni is urging people to avoid physical contact in an attempt to stop the disease.
Health officials are attempting to track down anyone who had contact with the victim in an attempt to constrain the outbreak. Nationwide, fourteen have died from the disease in this latest outbreak. Continue reading
The World Health Organization has found the cause of a mysterious illness that has killed over 60 children who died within 48 hours of being hospitalized. WHO says the condition is caused by a combination of pathogens.
Enterovirus 71, streptococcus suis and dengue fever were part of the cocktail of diseases. The problem was compounded by doctors using steroids to treat the illness which suppressed the immune system. Continue reading