Browsing: Infectious Disease

The pneumococcal vaccine lowers the risk of being infected with pneumococcal disease, a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.…

Influenza is an acute, contagious disease affecting the nose, throat and lungs, otherwise known as the respiratory tract. It is…

Malaria is a life-threatening disease transmitted by the bite of the parasitic Anopheles mosquito, usually between dusk and dawn. Two…

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of people have overlooked other conditions that still contribute to daily mortality and…

India, the second-largest populous country in the world, did not let time slip by catching onto the vaccination roll-out along…

600,000 doses of China-donated Sinovac vaccine arrived in the Philippines last Monday, March 1, 2021. This was the first launch…

Living in a global health pandemic, many parents are understandably seeking ways to protect their children from the virus. Even…

“I had fever, could not taste, nor smell anything, and had difficulty breathing – it felt like I was underwater”,…

Along with various types of bacteria, fungi exist all over your body. When there is an overgrowth of fungi in…

Human trials, limited vaccine success, media influences, and the government – these factors in determining  trust, have resulted in a…