The Complexity of Co-Infections in the Era of COVID-19

The Complexity of Co-Infections in the Era of COVID-19

Post Views: 2,560 Around the end of December 2019, Chinese health officials found a cluster of pneumonia in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. Shortly later, Chinese scientists discovered a previously unknown beta-coronavirus as the likely cause of the illness. SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been renamed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). COVID-19, like the 1918…

What is Oxidative Stress, and How Does it Affect Your Health?

What is Oxidative Stress, and How Does it Affect Your Health?

Post Views: 3,477 Oxidative stress is an imbalance between free radicals and antioxidants in your body. Free radicals are oxygen-containing molecules with an unequal quantity of electrons. The unequal number enables them to react with other molecules quickly. Free radicals may generate a massive chain of chemical events in your body because they combine so…

HIV Seroconversion: Symptoms, Tests, and Treatment

HIV Seroconversion: Symptoms, Tests, and Treatment

Post Views: 9,705 Fact: The average risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection after percutaneous exposure to HIV-infected blood is 0.3 percent.  Most HIV screening tests are fully automated and any look for antibodies to the virus. Consequently, a test performed before the onset of seroconversion will typically yield a negative result for the presence…