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The need to protect those who, by trade, had to approach the sick during an epidemic arose as early as the 14th...
In the months with an "erre" do not sunbathe. Someone may have heard this popular saying. And as is often said, there...
With the advent of the Internet, everyone has the opportunity to have access to a huge amount of information with its...
Tick-borne encephalitis (or TBE, Tick-borne Encephalitis) is a diseaseof viral origin, in which the virus is...
A National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of hydroxychloroquine for the...
In recent years, general interest has been directed towardcovid. The same interest in fact has seemed to wane in regard...
After delving into general tips for avoiding food contamination and foodborne diseases, let's explore what specific...
While it is true that most of us, when traveling, think we pay sufficient attention to what we eat and drink (a...
A complex European surveillance system collects epidemiological data on sexually transmitted infections in 30 EU member...
For the past few years much discussion has been going on regarding vaccinations: there are those who strongly support...
Home canned foods. These are the foods at highest risk for botulism, a serious food poisoning due to the toxin produced...
A U.S. woman has become the third person, and the first woman in the world to be considered cured of HIV, thanks to a...
Purchasing, storage, preparation. These are the three main stages of the path that brings food from the retailer to our...
What are the problems that are accompanying the realization of one or more effective vaccines to neutralize the threat...
As part of the chronic noncommunicable diseases of our time, one cannot fail to mention chronic kidney disease (also...
The larvae of some nematodes penetrate transcutaneously and give rise to the classic dermatosis called "larva migrans...
The schistosomes offer a classic example of the biological cycle of trematodes, worms a few inches long with typically...
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that has been known and present since the first appearance of man on Earth. Some...
In developing their new ebolavirus vaccine design, Zhu and his team focused on the relative instability of the...
Hepatitis B and hepatitis C represent a threat to global and European public health, with about 4,7 million people...
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that has been known and present since the first appearance of man on Earth. Some...
Chronic renal failure (CRI, chronic kidney disease, MRC; CKD in English) is a syndrome that consists of a gradual,...
One of the diseases that a traveler, particularly in the Caribbean area, may run into is the so-called marine...
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new era for vaccines and immunization, reminding the world of the power of vaccines....
Often travel is also associated with curiosity about the culinary culture of the country one decides to visit. We all...
Health tourism is a sector of tourism that includes medical tourism, wellness tourism, and spa tourism. Medical tourism...
The miasis are all parasitoses caused by dipteran larvae. They are infestations that develop in the dermal...
This article reviews the major theories existing in the literature, which provide an explanation with respect to the...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just given the go-ahead for a clinical trial at Columbia University to...
The Lancet's Richard Horton has made the case for considering covid-19 infection from a different perspective,...
Can scabies, tuberculosis (TB) really scare us today in the 21st century? Some cry, "give it to the antore!" as Don...
Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium named Borrelia burgdorferi, whose reservoir is the common tick, specifically...
Researchers have taken an important step in the development of an infection controlled model to test future vaccines...
Traditional measures to prevent the spread of malaria have traditionally focused on transmission, the human-mosquito...
Dermatophytes are mycoses of the dermis caused by dermatophytes a type of ascomycetes (a class of fungi whose...
The term gonorrhea originates from ancient Greece, refers to the great physician Galen, and dates back to the 2nd...
With globalization, more and more people are moving around the world. We have gone from a tourist flow estimated at...
Vaccination for the papilloma virus is key to preventing cancer. In Italy, there are about 3,500 new diagnoses of...
A new alarm has been raised from Treviso: a gentleman returning from a trip to Thailand has reported a gonorrhea...
In a survey that examined Italian citizens' knowledge of meningococcal infection carried out on a sample of 1007...
It is widely recognized in clinical and scientific practice that people aged 65 years and older are at higher risk of...
The pneumococcal-type vaccine is used to protect against pneumonias referable to bacteria. The targets most at risk are...
Bacteria are the main pathogens that can cause pneumonia in old age. Among them, it is important to mention...
There are eight herpes known to date and they are all double-stranded DNA viruses. They can give clinical...
Cholera is an acute diarrheal infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It is transmitted by the fecal-oral...
Care of the Italian health care system abroad? . The protection of public health, in the states of the European Union,...
Dengue is a tropical infectious disease, transmitted through the bites of mosquitoes belonging to the species Aedes...
Yellow fever is a viral disease transmitted by mosquito bites. First identified in the 17th century, it has caused...
Yellow fever is an infectious disease caused by a virus Flavivirus, a genus to which the viruses responsible for Dengue...
The Zika virus belongs to the Flavivirus genus and is very similar to other viruses such as those of dengue, yellow...
E-cig or electronic cigarette, is a device that allows you to inhale vapor and in varying amounts nicotine (6-20 mg),...
Summer is just around the corner and vacation time is approaching. The Demoskopika Institute estimates that there will...
Chemoprophylaxis or chemoprevention is the administration of drugs, such as antibiotics or antimicrobials, to prevent...
Vaccines are biological preparations that, when injected, simulate an encounter with the infectious agent as if one had...
The law of December 23, 1978, established the National Health Service (SSN) in Italy, which is responsible for...
When coming into contact with Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, two events can occur: The latent tuberculous infection The...
Yellow fever is an acute tropical disease, caused by an Arbovirus belonging to the Flaviviridae family, transmitted...
It has been 51 years since November 17, 1970, when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Italy officially...
Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is a recently identified type of food allergy red meat and other animal-derived products. In...
Subacute thyroiditis is an infection of the thyroid gland that occurs in the course of or immediately after contracting...
Every year it is estimated that international travelers, the target of this syndrome, are affected at a rate ranging...
Flu and COVID-19 are both contagious respiratory diseases, but caused by different viruses. While more and more is...