The Reasons Why 6 Devastating Pandemics in History Ended! Pandemics are hardly a recent problem. In fact, humanity has been fighting infectious diseases for millennia, be it the plague, smallpox, cholera, the flu, or COVID-19. History shows us that ultimately, all pandemics end somehow, but it is humanity’s knowledge of their enemy and effective ways to fight it that helps tilt the odds our way. And we have learned A LOT since the times of the Black Death during the Middle Ages, though it turns out we still have a lot more to learn about the microbes that make us sick. Here is how 6 major disease outbreaks in history have ended, and what we have learned from them. 1.The Black Death (1347-1351) The plague had been around for millennia, and for a long time, people had no idea how to contain it, not to mention cure it. One of ...
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Cytokine Storm Syndrome link with COVID-19 Written by Dr. Harold Gunatillake FRCS, MBBS, AM (Sing) FIACS, FICS. Health writer Have you heard of a syndrome called Cytokine Storm? Let us find out what cytokines are. They are a group of proteins, peptides or glycoproteins secreted by specific cells of the immune system. They are chemicals that signal and regulate your immune system. Such signaling by these chemicals stimulate the immune system to fight a foreign germ, or attack by a cancerous tumor. Now these are the good beneficial cytokines, that protect you from the invaders. They function to protect your body cells from inflammatory diseases produced by bad damaging cytokines, and foreign invasions by pathogens. ...
May 22, 2020
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WFP and Australia provide funds for 80,000 kids to receive take-home food rations WFP Country Director Brenda Barton handing the letter confirming funds to supply take-home ration packages for school children to Education Minister Dullas Alahapperuma SOURCE:FT The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) are providing $ 400,000 (Rs. 74 million) to the Ministry of Education (MoEd) towards the National School Meal Programme. Under this measure 80,000 primary school children will receive one month’s worth of food rations to help them and their families cope with the school closures due to COVID-19. ...
May 16, 2020
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Parents of students returned from Australia thank President Source:FT A total of 272 Sri Lankans who were stranded in various parts of Australia were brought back home to Sri Lanka on UL 605, daybreak Sunday 10 May. Amongst these passengers were 31 students following higher studies in Australia who opted to return and be in the safe custody of their parents. A family who wishes to be anonymous voluntarily offered to be the group leader on behalf of all parents and they coordinated this return with much communication between the President, the Prime Minister, Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Foreign Relations, the team of the National Operational Centre for Prevention of COVID-19, the Embassy of the Sri Lanka High Commission in Canberra, and officials of Srilankan Airlines in Colombo and Melbourne. ...
May 16, 2020
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Should a COVID-19 patient with poor lung function go under ventilator management?Written by Dr. Harold Gunatillake-Health writer Confusing terms when it comes to the management of Corona virus endemic First thing we need to discuss is the difference between SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19. The former is the scientific name of the virus that is causing the current pandemic (SARS stands for severe acute respiratory syndrome) The disease caused by this virus is called Covid-19 If you have the disease it means that you have been infected by the SARS-CoV-2 It is the same as in HIV virus causing AIDS. HIV virus is like the SARS-CoV-2 and the disease you refer to as AIDS, is like Covid-19. ...
May 11, 2020
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Lanka-born and educated doctor helps contain epidemic in the UK Source:The Island Miles Ellingham on how a smallpox epidemic was averted by his grandfather’s swift and meticulous tracing of contacts This article is about Dr Clifford Jansz (1924-1998), written by his grandson a young journalist, Miles Ellingham who lives in England. Lockdown life has thrown families together again and doubtless revealed many a forgotten episode as lofts have been braved, photo albums revisited and talk of generations renewed. My own finding is an extraordinary and timely one: the report of a smallpox epidemic that my grandfather managed in Harrow. The episode was Britain’s last-but-one outbreak of smallpox, in 1973. If it was not swiftly contained, and all contacts found and treated, there was a threat of smallpox breaking out across London and potentially beyond. The World Health Organization was alerted. ...
May 10, 2020
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“Noel News” from Noel Whittaker Successful investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. WARREN BUFFETT Welcome to our fifth newsletter for 2020, and our fourth newsletter since Covid 19 became big news. It’s interesting to reflect on how much has happened in the last three months, and to think about the way headlines have changed from warnings of thousands of people dying in Australia, to how quickly we can make it back to normality. As long-term readers know, I am a glass-half-full person, but I have great trouble getting optimistic about the rest of the year. And I’m especially worried about September – this is when Jobkeeper will cease, the rate of payments for Jobseeker will reduce, and everybody who is on some kind of ...
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May 8, 2020
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Lunch with Prof.Raina MacIntyre: cautious coronavirus communicator: By Helen Pitt Sydney Morning Herald, April 25, 2020 Professor Raina MacIntyre, one of the world’s leading emerging infectious diseases experts has barely budged from the bedroom of her Wahroonga home since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Australia. The globally-renowned epidemiologist’s clear-yet-cautious tone has made her a familiar face and voice on most things coronavirus related on television and radio: all calmly delivered from her bedroom, where she continues her research almost around the clock. Occasionally, she sleeps there too. Each day she rises between 4 and 5 am, takes her three dogs – a Doberman, a bull arab and a greyhound shepherd cross – for a quick walk, then is back at her desk with strong coffee and hundreds of emails. She spent this past Tuesday, her 56th birthday, giving an online lecture from home on what she calls the herd immunity “myth” and ...
May 5, 2020
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Emotional Surprise for a COVID-19 Survivor | Good Morning Britain – surprise for Roy as he is reunited with Dr Hetti! (Dr. Hettiarachi) When Roy Ives was taken into hospital a month ago, his family were told that night to prepare for the worst. Thanks to the efforts of NHS doctors and nurses he was able to pull through, despite suffering from a number of underlying health issues, and is now back home recovering. Roy said: “The NHS staff are angels, they have done so much for me. I will never forget Dr Hetti and he will be in my thoughts every day as a way to say thank you.” We’ve got a special surprise for Roy as he is reunited with Dr Hetti! (Dr. Hettiarachi) ...
