Aayushi Gaur, U. I. E. T., Kurukshetra University Doctors battled to keep patients breathing in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing mostly on treating lung and circulatory system damage. However, evidence of neurological consequences was already collecting at the time. Some COVID-19 patients were suffering from delirium, which manifested as confusion, disorientation, and […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University The progression of an epidemic comes at a rapid pace for us to be able to understand it. What is more devastating than this progression is the ability of a pathogen to evolve and spread. The reality of it is already heart-breaking as we can see in the current pandemic of […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University In the last few decades, humankind has gone through major healthcare upheavals causing a large amount of death and destruction. Epidemics, pandemics have come, some have passed with time but some have evolved to stay. And as we continue forward, scientists are already predicting the next pandemic to come soon. In […]
Avani Dave, Jai Hind College Background Based on historical evidence, the epidemics of plant diseases have been quite destructive and continue to scar global well-being. Most of these epidemics came into existence due to international transactions and merchandising of plant materials which eventually takes the face of species declination. Hymenoscyphus fraxineus is an invasive fungus […]
Hari Krishnan R, SRM Institute of Science and Technology SARS-CoV (2002), MERS-CoV (2006), and ongoing SARS-CoV2 (2019) are a few of the most devastating pandemics in history. All of these were caused by Coronaviruses. A recent study has identified a possible ancient coronavirus epidemic that happened around 20,000 years ago in East Asia regions. This […]
Akshita Kumar, M.Sc. Biochemistry A recent study jointly conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR) and the National Institute of Virology(NIV) detected the presence of antibodies against Nipah virus(NiV) in bats residing in a cave in Mahabaleshwar. The sole purpose of this study was to investigate the spread of the Nipah Virus in Indian […]
Soumya Shraddhya Paul, Amity University Noida On Saturday, WHO official Alfred Ki-Zerbo declared the end of the current Ebola epidemic. After Guinea defeated the second Ebola outbreak that erupted in the West African states on February 14th, 2021 which infected around 16 people and claimed the life of 12, the second wave is reported to […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta The concept of herd immunity states that when a large part of a population in an area has developed immunity against a certain disease, the virus or bacteria causing the disease has a significantly lesser chance of spreading from one person to another in that area. As a result, the […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata World Malaria Day (WMD) is celebrated every year on the 25th of April and it is a global effort to control the spread of Malaria. This day began to be officially observed in the year 2007 by the 60th session of the World Health Assembly, which serves as the WHO’s […]
CAMELIA BHATTACHARYYA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA HIV or Human Immunodeficiency virus was first discovered in the early 1980s. It later became an epidemic and it still scares people since there’s still no vaccine known to protect us against it. Does that mean that the scientists and researchers are not trying to even make one? Well no. […]
