Taiwan announced its first case of COVID-19 on 21 January 2020. Note that the disease first emerged in Wuhan City in mainland China in December […]
Tag Archives: Medicine
SARS-CoV-2 Facts: Origin, Description, and Symptoms
SARS-CoV-2, previously known as the 2019-nCoV, is a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA coronavirus first reported in late 2019 and linked in the 2019-2020 pneumonia outbreak in […]
Causes and Factors of Hospital-Acquired Infections
Hospital-acquired infections or HAIs are specific infections acquired in a hospital or other health care settings such as outpatient clinics, nursing homes, and rehabilitation centers, […]
Role of Pharmaceutical Companies in Antibiotic Resistance
Pharmaceutical companies have now been regarded as one of the major culprits behind the emergence and prevalence of antibiotic resistance. To be specific, specific companies […]
Causes of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are specific strains of bacterial species that have developed resistance from the effects of antibacterial agents due to continued exposure. Take note that […]
Studies: Link Between Talcum Powder and Cancer
A 1971 study by W. J. Henderson et al. involving an extraction-replication technique to examine tissue from patients with cervical ovarian tumor found particles of […]
Applications of Chitin and Chitosan
Chitin and chitosan are biological polymers derived from the exoskeletons of arthropods and insects, beaks of birds, internal shells of cephalopods, and the cell walls […]
Jellyfish Sting: How To Avoid Them?
The effects of jellyfish sting vary depending on the type of species. Stings from true jellyfish or species under the Scyphozoa class mostly trigger slightly […]
The Box Jellyfish: Why Are They So Deadly?
The box jellyfish is a collective term for a class of species under the Medusozoa subphylum and Cnidaria phylum under the greater Animalia kingdom. These […]
Causes of Ebola Outbreak
The Ebola virus disease or EVD has a high fatality rate of 50 percent according to the World Health Organization. The organization also noted that […]