COVID-19: How to Treat Coronavirus 2019 at Home

The majority of people who get infected with the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) virus experience mild or asymptomatic (no symptoms) disease which can be treated at home. So if you're experiencing the tell-tale signs of the virus, what should you do to feel better? A proportion of people may experience more severe disease warranting hospital admission. This article discusses mild disease which is easily treated at home.

Hepatitis A: Risk Factors, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention

Hepatitis A refer to inflammation of the liver due to the hepatitis A virus (HAV). It tends to be a short-term (acute) illness; and is usually spread by eating or drinking something contaminated with the hepatitis A virus. It is more common in developing countries.

Hepatitis E: Cause, Transmission, Symptoms, Treatment and Prevention

Hepatitis E disease is a similar illness to hepatitis A. Like hepatitis A, hepatitis E is spread through contaminated food and drink, and thereafter causes an acute (short-term) and self-limiting illness, from which people usually recover fully with low death rates; however, it can be more severe in pregnant women and people with a weakened immune system e.g. organ transplant recipients, with substantially higher death rates. A preventive vaccine (HEV 239) is approved for use in China, but is not yet available anywhere else.

Hepatitis D: Transmission, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention

The most common cause of hepatitis is infection with a virus. There are five different viruses which can cause five different types of viral hepatitis viz Hepatitis A virus (HAV), Hepatitis B virus (HBV), Hepatitis C virus (HCV), Hepatitis D virus (HDV) and Hepatitis E virus (HEV). Hepatitis D is spread in the same way as hepatitis B and hepatitis C; however, it can only affect people who also have been infected with hepatitis B. This article is about the HDV infection.

Hepatitis C: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention

Hepatitis C is a blood-borne virus that infects the cells of the liver. Most cases occur in people who share needles or injecting equipment to inject 'street drugs' contaminated with infected blood (intravenous drug users). Some people clear the infection naturally. Some develop persistent infection but remain free of symptoms, although others may have symptoms. Persistent infection can lead to 'scarring' of the liver (cirrhosis) which may result in liver cancer. Treatment can clear the infection in over half of cases.

Hepatitis B: Risk Factors, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment

The hepatitis B virus can cause a short-term (acute) infection, which may or may not cause symptoms. Following an acute infection, a minority of infected adults develop a persistent infection called chronic hepatitis B. Many people with chronic hepatitis B remain well, but can still pass on the virus to others. Some develop serious liver problems. The virus is mainly passed on by sexual contact, sharing needles to inject drugs, and from mother to baby.

Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

A sexually transmitted infection (STI) is an infection that can be passed from person to person when having sex. You can get an STI by having vaginal sex, anal sex, or oral sex. There are several different types of STI.

Pneumonia: key facts, causes, risk factors, features, treatment, prevention and prognosis

Pneumonia is one of the most common reasons people go to see their doctor. Strictly speaking it describes any inflammatory condition affecting the alveoli of the lungs, although in the vast majority of patients this is due to a bacterial infection.

What are Moderate, Severe and Critical COVID-19?

Whilst the majority of people experience a mild or asymptomatic coronavirus infection, some people will have far more serious and even life-threatening symptoms and complications.

What are Asymptomatic and Mild COVID-19?

As the coronavirus pandemic continues its spread around the world, we're learning more and more how different groups of people experience COVID-19. Everybody is talking about mild, moderate, severe, and critical cases of COVID-19. What does this all mean?

WHO Says 'Evidence Emerging' of Airborne Transmission of Covid 19

The World Health Organization (WHO) has acknowledged that there is "evidence emerging" that the coronavirus that causes Covid 19 disease can be spread by tiny particles suspended in the air.

What Are Coronaviruses? Learn Key Facts About Them

A Coronavirus was first isolated in 1937 - it was an avian infectious bronchitis virus which had (and still has) the ability to seriously devastate poultry stocks.

How to Wash Your Hands the Right Way to Stay Healthy

Handwashing is one of the best ways to protect yourself and your family from getting sick. Most of us know how important it is to practise good hand hygiene. But just because you're washing your hands often, doesn't mean that you're washing them well.

Rabies - Important Facts You Should Know

Rabies is an infectious viral disease that is almost always fatal following the onset of clinical symptoms. In up to 99% of cases, domestic dogs are responsible for rabies virus transmission to humans. Yet, rabies can affect both domestic and wild animals. It is spread to people through bites or scratches, usually via saliva. See more about animal bites.

Tuberculosis - Symptoms, Treatment and Key Facts

Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria usually attack the lungs, but TB bacteria can attack any part of the body such as the kidney, spine, and brain. Not everyone infected with TB bacteria becomes sick. As a result, two TB-related conditions exist: latent TB infection (LTBI) and TB disease. If not treated properly, TB disease can be fatal.

Ebola Virus Disease Key Facts: Transmission, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment and Effective Control

The Ebola virus causes an acute, serious illness which is often fatal if untreated. Ebola virus disease (EVD), (formerly, Ebola haemorrhagic fever), first appeared in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks, one in what is now, Nzara, South Sudan, and the other in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo. The latter occurred in a village near the Ebola River, from which the disease takes its name.

Poliomyelitis - Symptoms, Transmission, Prevention and Key Facts

Polio, or poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis, is a crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease. It is caused by the poliovirus. The virus spreads from person to person and can invade an infected person’s brain and spinal cord, causing paralysis (inability to move parts of the body).

Lassa fever - Symptoms, Transmission, Management and Prevention (An Overview of the Key Facts)

Lassa fever is an acute viral illness that occurs in west Africa. The illness was discovered in 1969 when two missionary nurses died in Nigeria. The virus is named after the town in Nigeria where the first cases occurred. The virus, a member of the virus family Arenaviridae, is a single-stranded RNA virus and is zoonotic, or animal-borne.

Yellow Fever - Causes, Symptoms, Treatment and Key Facts

No one knows for certain, but scientists believe that yellow fever has plagued the world for at least 3,000 years. It is believed the disease was brought into the western world on slave ships from West Africa. The first definitive evidence of yellow fever in the Americas was in Mayan manuscripts describing an outbreak of the disease in the Yucatan and Guadeloupe in 1648. Yellow fever virus is found in parts of tropical and subtropical areas in Central and South America, and Africa.

Chikungunya Viral Disease: Transmission, Clinical Features, Diagnosis, Prevention and Key Facts

Chikungunya (pronunciation: chik-en-gun-ye) is a mosquito-borne viral disease first described during an outbreak in southern Tanzania in 1952. The most common symptoms are fever and joint pain, however, other symptoms may occur.