World Tuberculosis Day is observed annually on March 24th to raise awareness about tuberculosis (TB) and to support efforts to eliminate the disease. TB is a bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread through the air when a person with active TB disease […]
The first thought that has crossed my brain seeing this date is that why was the 28th selected why not the 29th of February to symbolize rarity, within seconds I understood that if the 29th was selected rare disease awareness will happen rarely. Slowly I started to comprehend why it is important for people to […]
Pneumonia an acute respiratory infection commonly caused by virus or bacteria is the single biggest infectious killer of adults and children claiming the lives of 2.5 million, including 6,72,000 children in 2019. The surge in Covid pneumonia cases in the recent times are expected to add significantly to the total number of deaths due to […]
Dr. Harsha Vardhana Varma MBBS,M.D Chest Physician
The BA.4 variant was first detected from a specimen collected on 10 January 2022 in Limpopo, South Africa, and has since been detected in all South African provinces. BA.5 was also first detected in South Africa, this time from a sample collected on 25 February 2022 in KwaZulu-Natal. It has also spread to other provinces. […]
Human monkeypox is a zoonotic disease that is endemic to central and western Africa. It is caused byan orthopoxvirus that was first identified in captive monkeys in 1958, and in a child from DR Congo in 1970.There are two variants of the virus: the Congo Basinclade and the west African clade. Unlike the variola virus,the […]
GINA has chosen ‘Closing Gaps in Asthma Care’ as the theme for the 2022 World Asthma Day. Current gaps in asthma care include: In equal access to diagnosis and treatment (medicine) Between care for different socioeconomic, ethnic and age groups Between wealthy and poorer communities and countries; In communication and care across the primary/secondary/tertiary care […]
A sub-variant of the highly transmissible Omicron version of coronavirus known as BA.2 is now dominant worldwide, prompting surges in many countries in Europe and Asia and raising concern over the potential for a new wave. BA.2 now represents nearly 86% of all sequenced cases, according to the World Health Organization. It is even more […]
The WHO estimations per year worldwide: About one million people lose life every year from malaria. Travelers are susceptible to malariaPathogenesis: The female anophelous gets infected when it feeds on human Blood containing malarial parasite (gametocytes) further develop in one to three weeks’ time, into schizonts. Accumulate in saliva of the mosquito. Sporozoites disappear from […]