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AGRICULTURE Vaccine targets African swine fever Vietnam’s agriculture ministry last week gave limited authorization to a vaccine hailed as an important tool to control one of the most serious animal diseases, African swine fever (ASF). In recent years the sickness has hit pig herds hard in several Asian and European countries. Vietnam’s National Veterinary Joint Stock Company developed the vaccine based on an ASF virus strain engineered by the U.S. Agricultural Research Service…

Credit: Wikimedia Why did people think cannibalism was good for their health? The answer offers a glimpse into the zaniest crannies of European history, at a time when Europeans were obsessed with Egyptian mummies. …

A 47-year-old man from Kerala recently died due to West Nile Virus. This is said to be the second death due to the vector-borne disease in the state. The state health department has sounded an alert in the wake of the death. West Nile fever, spread by the Culex species of mosquitoes, had earlier claimed a life in Kerala in 2019. Livemint spoke to Dr Trupti Gilada about what is West Nile Fever and how is it caused. Dr Gilada is Consultant Physician in infectious disease…

Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Politics PMN News PMN Health Author of the article: Publishing date: May 19, 2022  •  15 minutes ago  •  2 minute read  •  Join the conversation Article content SEOUL — North Korea said on Friday it was achieving “good results” in its fight against its first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak, as the number of people with fever symptoms rose past 2 million. A wave of COVID infections, which North Korea first confirmed last week, has fanned worry about a lack of…

Article content SEOUL — North Korea said on Friday it was achieving “good results” in the fight against the country’s first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak, as the number of people with fever symptoms surpassed 2 million. Article content The isolated nation reported 263,370 more people with fever symptoms, and two more deaths, taking the total fever caseload to 2.24 million as of Thursday evening, including 65 deaths, according to state media KCNA. It did not report how many of those cases had tested positive for the…

Although Dance Fever was made through successive lockdowns, it isn’t another pandemic disco record, exactly. Choreomania – a track that comes early in Florence Welch’s fifth album – is named for a medieval epidemic of involuntary movement, a “dance fever” understood then as a form of possession, and now as more of a mass stress response. So while Welch channels Into the Groove-era-Madonna on Free – “when I’m dancing, I’m free” – the emphasis on these very grownup, self-aware songs is on exorcising, rather than…

As India sees a sudden upsurge in Covid-19 cases , right after Covid curbs were eased throughout, there is one query that plagues the mind. Are the vaccinated susceptible to Covid-19? A research study published in the journal Eurosurveillance has found certain symptoms in the people who were vaccinated against Covid-19 and then got affected by the deadly virus. However, these Covid-19 symptoms are difficult to be confirmed as they are similar to what common cold symptoms would look…