Published in VirusDisease
Human coronaviruses are known as respiratory pathogens mainly associated with a range of respiratory diseases. In the past 18 years, the beginning of severe acute respiratory syndrome human coronavirus (SARS-HCoV), Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and now the (COVID-19) have driven the HCoV into the platform of the scientific...
Published in Global Health Research and Policy
The novel coronavirus is a pandemic that has started to creep into Africa thus making the virus a truly global, health security threat. The number of new 2019-nCoV cases has been rising in Africa, though currently lower than the cases reported outside the region. African countries have activated their Emergency Operations Centres to coordinate resp...
Published in One Health
• Repurposing and reshaping of hospitals could be working on containing the COVID-19 outbreak and limiting nosocomial infections. • Dedicated COVID-19 hospitals, dedicated COVID-19 emergency centers, COVID-19 community facilities, and respiratory care split hospitals were established to mitigate the COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea. • The reallocat...
Published in BMC Neurology
BackgroundEncephalopathy is an uncommon but serious presentation of lead toxicity.ObjectiveWe aimed to determine and follow-up the brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) abnormalities in the patients with lead encephalopathy due to ingestion of lead contaminated opium.MethodsIn a cross-sectional study during lead-contaminated opium outbreak, all le...
Published in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine
Published in La Radiologia Medica
The current global outbreak of COVID-19 represents a major challenge in terms of epidemiology, contagiousness, treatment, as well as clinical and radiological behavior of this disease. Radiological imaging plays a key role in the diagnostic process and during the monitoring of the clinical conditions especially of patients with severe symptoms. Acc...
Published in Zeitschrift Fur Gesundheitswissenschaften
Background China has been fighting the epidemic of pneumonia-like diseases first detected for over a month in the city of Wuhan in December 2019. The disease epidemic is caused by a novel coronavirus, called COVID-19, which has now infected more than 700,000 people worldwide. With a death toll approaching that of China’s SARS-CoV outbreak in 2002 a...
Published in BMC Medicine
BackgroundThe 2018–2019 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the largest ever recorded in the DRC. It has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The outbreak emerged in a region of chronic conflict and insecurity, and directed attacks against...
Published in Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology
The COVID-19 pandemic is a significant global event in the history of infectious diseases. The SARS-CoV-2 appears to have originated from bats but is now easily transmissible among humans, primarily through droplet or direct contact. Clinical features of COVID-19 include high fever, cough, and fatigue which may progress to ARDS. Respiratory failure...
Published in Archives of Medical Research
After the initial breakout of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic (now called COVID-19)—in Wuhan, China—and its subsequent fast dispersion throughout the world, many questions regarding its pathogenesis, genetic evolution, prevention, and transmission routes remain unanswered but fast explored. More than 100,000 confirmed, infected cases within a relatively sh...
