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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 426

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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
A prototype of the new Israeli tuberculosis-detecting skin patch (courtesy of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)
July 5, 2021, 6:59 pm
Touted as a lifesaver for millions, Israeli nano-patch smells skin to detect TB
Some 3 million people worldwide miss tuberculosis diagnosis every year, often because tests unavailable; Haifa-made skin sticker will help, scientists say
By Nathan Jeffay
Sveta Kundish and Daniel Kahn in 'Mentshn-Fresser' (People Devourer) (Photo: Yeva Lapsker)
June 28, 2020, 9:54 pm
‘You poison our innards’: Revamped 1916 Yiddish pandemic song is new YouTube hit
Berlin-based musicians Daniel Kahn and Sveta Kundish exploit parallels to COVID-19 in 104-year-old ballad about disease and injustice by great 20th century US immigrant composer
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A boy cries standing beside a relative being treated for tuberculosis at a TB hospital on World Tuberculosis Day in Hyderabad, India, March 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
May 7, 2020, 6:06 pm
Millions at risk from other diseases pushed to margins by COVID-19 crisis
Health experts warn the coronavirus pandemic is already denying untold numbers of patients treatment for illnesses such as tuberculosis, pneumonia and malaria
By Patrick Galey
In this December 2, 1947, photo, Charles D. Brown fills a vial with the BCG tuberculosis vaccine, at a state-operated laboratory in Albany, NY (AP Photo)
April 14, 2020, 1:33 pm
Could old vaccines for other germs protect against COVID-19?
Scientists hypothesizing that other shots, including anti-tuberculosis, could invigorate immune system; WHO warns against using method on virus patients until research bears it out
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
April 10, 2013, 12:41 am
200 Israelis at a college and a newspaper to be tested for tuberculosis
Health Ministry works to prevent outbreak after youth hospitalized with infectious disease
By Ilan Ben Zion
The headquarters of Warsaw’s Jewish community, right, known as the “white building,” could be torn down to make way for a taller, modern building. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
February 2, 2013, 10:43 pm
Warsaw Ghetto building pits Jews against fellow Poles
In historic irony, gentiles seek to save structure the city’s growing Jewish community wants to knock down
By Vanessa Gera
Rhodes scholar David Carel, second from left, regularly travels to South Africa to work on global health issues, but finds time on the side to teach Israeli folk dancing. (Courtesy of David Carel)
January 5, 2013, 4:33 am
Yale student dances his way — Israeli-style — to a Rhodes Scholarship
When he’s not too busy teaching Jewish folk dance or heckling the US president, David Carel is spearheading HIV/AIDS awareness programs in South Africa
By Daniel Weizmann
An empty hallway at Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital, February 2012 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
August 21, 2012, 9:27 pm
12 Tel Aviv hospital staff infected with tuberculosis virus after treating African migrants
Doctor and 11 other employees not-contagious and taking medication to prevent development of disease
By Michal Shmulovich
An empty hallway at Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital, February 2012 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
July 2, 2012, 9:32 pm
Tel Aviv hospital to keep African migrants from visiting patients
Director cites recent incident which highlighted threat of infectious disease from illegal population
By Asher Zeiger
Sudanese refugees at the Ktziot Detention Camp (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
May 22, 2012, 11:37 am
Doctors warn: African migrants are ‘health time bomb’
Many asylum seekers carrying communicable diseases are released from hospitals without proper treatment
By Hillary Zaken
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