According to nzherald.co.uk, a mid-winter escape to Fiji turned into a near-death experience for an Auckland woman. Mary Kent needed time out last month and headed off to celebrate a friend’s birthday. Photos of the 26-year-old marketing and sales manager show her laughing, relaxing in five-star resorts and dining at luxury restaurants during her five-day holiday, unaware a deadly parasite was taking hold inside her body. “I came back and I was just feeling achy and tired, I had fevers and I just thought it was the flu. But a week after I started looking quite white, pale and not being able to function normally. I was having to go home from work.” She visited her GP on July 4 – nine days after her holiday ended – and he, too, diagnosed flu. Read article
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On July 16 2013 Jafranews.com reported that, an increasing number of people diagnosed with leishmaniasis or popularly known as “Aleppo pill” between the Syrian refugees from the age of 3 years till seventy. More than 350 Syrian infected. Syrian families unable to secure the cost of treatment for this disease. Read Article
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Newshour24.com reports that the poor woman and her family came to Spain for the first two-week holiday in five years, but her time in Cala’n Forcat, Menorca was ruined by a bad reaction to a sun “protection” cream. She ended up needing emergency care in hospital for two days. Read article
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As reported by Bbc.co.uk, health officials in Saudi Arabia have asked pilgrims visiting its holy sites to wear masks in crowded places to stop the spread of the MERS coronavirus. A list of requirements issued by the health ministry also tells elderly people or those with chronic diseases to postpone their pilgrimage. Thirty-eight people have […]
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Alarabiya.net reports that health authorities in the UAE have announced that an 82-year-old man has been diagnosed with the MERS coronavirus infection, the first case to be recorded in the Gulf state. The Emirati citizen who contracted the SARS-like virus suffers from cancer and is being treated in hospital in the capital, Abu Dhabi health […]
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Thanhniennews.com reports that a Vietnamese journalist was seriously poisoned by water from an old well in the Sahara Desert while on assignment in Algeria, claimed his employer, Nang Luong Moi newspaper . Nguyen Nhu Phong, Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper and its online affiliate, PetroTimes, allegedly washed his face and took a sip of water from […]
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According to redorbit.com, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted in a January weekly report that norovirus had taken a stronghold in the US, with numbers of cases rising. The virus, which is associated with flu-like symptoms and causes uncontrollable vomiting, has in fact been showing its ugly face in schools, on […]
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According to thelocal.fr, French authorities have reversed earlier claims that two men hospitalized in Tours after returning from Saudi Arabia were infected with a deadly virus formerly known as coronavirus, but now labeled MERS, it emerged on Wednesday. France’s Minister for Health Marisol Touraine on Wednesday announced, “the tests have come back negative,” reversing an […]
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According to a report from thestar.com.my, the unfavourable weather condition is delaying the rescue mission for two Malaysian Everest climbers, one of whom is critically ill and the other confirmed dead. “The evacuation process is on the way but the weather condition is not favourable to move the young trekker’s body and another person who […]
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The patient, a 63 year old man from Haiti, was presented Thursday night emergency ICU in Fort-de-France in a state of dehydration. Analyses were quickly confirmed that he was suffering from cholera. However, there would be no risk of an epidemic, according to the regional health agency. Read article
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