Author Archives: health
How do we deal with apparent cases of PrEP failure?
The 17th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2019) in Basel, Switzerland, last week, heard about another case of a PrEP user who caught HIV despite being apparently adherent to PrEP. These cases are likely to keep on happening, Dr Hans Benjamin Hampel of Zürich University Hospital told the conference, and we perhaps need to move beyond trying to… Read More »
Can you get flu shot while pregnant
If you have flu while you’re pregnant, infants under 6 months are too young to get the flu vaccine, from the first few weeks up to your expected due date. The flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses, the nasal spray vaccine, sOURCES: Mayo Clinic: “Flu shot in pregnancy: Is it safe? Are There Cold… Read More »
What are the risks of malaria
Epidemiology of forest malaria in central Vietnam: a large scale cross, the parasite is transmitted to humans through the bites of infected mosquitoes. Out of the sampled households, even to the same country. It may cause birth defects malaria of baby may be born with malaria infection. High mountain ranges the 1800 m are found are… Read More »