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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 345

infectious disease

Illustrative: A view of people swimming in the Sea of Galilee, on June 12, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
July 25, 2024, 12:04 am
Child diagnosed with brain-eating amoeba weeks after man’s death; visited same waterpark
Health Ministry orders closure of Gai Beach in Sea of Galilee until further notice, as 2nd case of brain infection caused by Naegleria fowleri raises concern of contaminated pools
By Diana Bletter and ToI Staff
Swaths of sea urchin skeletons washed up on the shore. (Jean-Pascal Quod)
May 23, 2024, 8:15 pm
Deadly pathogen that wiped out Eilat’s sea urchins reaches Indian Ocean
Facing fears of global epidemic, Tel Aviv University scientists, who first identified local die-off and specific pathogen, are working with regional partners to understand more
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: A brown rat (Heiko Kiera/Shutterstock.com)
March 16, 2024, 7:15 am
Rail construction in Tel Aviv may be behind a surge in rat-related disease cases
Patients diagnosed with flea-borne typhus and leptospirosis at area hospitals have reported seeing the rodents in their neighborhoods, and even in their homes
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: A sandfly under a microscope. (Public Domain/World Health Organization )
January 2, 2024, 6:54 pm
Sandfly-borne parasitic disease has affected at least 100 IDF troops in Gaza
Contracted in southern Israel before entering the Strip, cutaneous ​leishmaniasis causes deep, ugly skin lesions — but in most cases doesn’t affect a soldier’s ability to fight
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Among key symptoms that together define long COVID are brain fog, memory loss, and malaise or fatigue (iStock illustration)
September 15, 2023, 11:47 am
As patients suffer, long COVID remains a collection of symptoms with no single cure
With COVID wards and post-COVID clinics in hospitals now closed, the 10-20% of COVID sufferers who have long-term debilitating condition seek help through community health services
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: A baby receives a routine vaccine. (naumoid; iStock by Getty Images)
July 14, 2023, 8:49 am
Whooping cough outbreak spreads to north with new case in town near Nahariya
Infectious disease expert posits that post-COVID vaccine fatigue and skepticism, as well as ‘immunological debt,’ are at play
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. Lalita Ramakrishnan, seen here with tanks of zebrafish, is a professor of microbiology at Cambridge University focused on tuberculosis. (Courtesy of MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
May 6, 2023, 3:22 pm
Study: Gaucher disease, common among Ashkenazi Jews, protects against tuberculosis
Cambridge University team discovers that specific cellular-level lipids that accumulate in the genetic disease attack and kill deadly TB bacterium, hope to develop new treatment
By Renee Ghert-Zand
This undated electron microscope image made available by the US National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. (NIAID-RML via AP)
June 13, 2020, 5:43 pm
Study: Dominant form of virus ‘10 times’ more infectious than original strain
Researchers say mutation in Wuhan virus gave it sturdier spikes to latch onto cells, with lab tests showing it is far more contagious; but some scientists urge caution
By ToI Staff
Coronavirus's global spread (ChakisAtelier; iStock by Getty Images)
June 6, 2020, 4:03 am
What makes a superspreader? And how central are they to COVID-19’s growth?
A patient’s biology, environment and behavior can greatly affect their potential to infect; studies show a small percentage of the sick may be responsible for majority of cases
By Elizabeth McGraw
Ceremonial burning of last hut at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, 1945 (public domain)
April 17, 2020, 6:34 am
75 years ago this week, ‘typhus fever’ met its match at Bergen-Belsen
In ‘All the Horrors of War,’ a survivor’s daughter describes how H. L. Glyn Hughes, first Allied Medical Officer to enter Nazi ‘horror camp,’ strived to save lives after liberation
By Matt Lebovic
Dr. Martin Zand (left) works with Jiong Wang, B.Med, M.S., research assistant professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. (Courtesy University of Rochester Medical Center)
March 31, 2020, 6:52 am
US expert: Israeli response to coronavirus crisis is ‘right on target’
Compared with the decentralized health system in the US, the Jewish state’s reaction to COVID-19 has been relatively swift and well-organized, says data scientist Dr. Martin Zand
By Rich Tenorio
People wearing face masks against the coronavirus at Ben Gurion Airport on February 27, 2020. (Avshalom Shoshani/Flash90)
February 27, 2020, 7:39 pm
El Al suspends flights to Italy, Thailand; over 1,700 Israelis quarantined
Officials defend sweeping measures after first unquarantined Israeli carrier diagnosed; travelers from Italy turned back
By ToI Staff
A paramilitary policeman wears a face mask as he stands guard near the large portrait of Chinese leader Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Gate adjacent to Tiananmen Square in Beijing on January 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
January 28, 2020, 8:53 am
China counts 106 virus deaths as US, others move to evacuate
China has imposed a lockdown on 17 cities with more than 50 million people, in the most far-reaching disease-control measures ever imposed
By Joe McDonald
A one dose bottle of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine, made by Merck, seen at the Salt Lake County Health Department in Salt Lake City, April 26, 2019 (George Frey/Getty Images via JTA)
August 13, 2019, 4:04 pm
Global reported measles infections triple in 2019, health body says
Over 360,000 cases recorded worldwide in first 7 months of 2019, up from 129,000 in the same period in 2018, but actual infections could be 10 times that, WHO warns
By AFP and ToI Staff
An undated photo showing Rotem Amitai. (Courtesy)
August 13, 2019, 1:43 pm
El Al flight attendant dies 4 months after contracting measles on plane from NY
43-year-old Rotem Amitai, who had been vaccinated with 1 dose out of the recommended 2, becomes 3rd fatality in recent outbreak of highly contagious disease
By ToI Staff
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