by Team Spectrum Books | Apr 21, 2021 | Health and Medicine
Immunity passport, or immunity certificate, a digital corona passport, has been announced by some countries to ease travel restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The passports, also called risk-free certificates, would identify and share the immune status of an...
by Team Spectrum Books | Apr 15, 2021 | Health and Medicine
Serology is the study of antibodies in blood serum. Antibodies are part of the body’s immune response to infection. Antibodies that work against SARS-CoV-2 and the virus that causes COVID-19, are usually detectable in the first few weeks after infection. The presence...
by Team Spectrum Books | Apr 7, 2021 | Health and Medicine
The emergence of various variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, shows that it is the nature of viruses to mutate constantly. Cases of infection with these variants of the SARS-CoV-2 around the world are increasing like in the United Kingdom (UK),...
by Team Spectrum Books | Feb 11, 2021 | Health and Medicine
Ozone therapy, a branch of Naturopathy, is being touted as an alternative medicine therapy to support diabetes treatment. Medical professionals at the Ozone Forum of India (OFI) have highlighted the therapeutic benefits of ozone therapy during treatment of type-2...
by Team Spectrum Books | Feb 8, 2021 | Health and Medicine
An illness, dubbed the ‘mystery illness’ as none could understand why it erupted, gripped Eluru town in West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, in early December 2020. It affected nearly 600 people and claimed the life of one, 45-year-old Sridhar from Vidyanagar. The...
by Team Spectrum Books | Feb 8, 2021 | Health and Medicine
An uncommon type of malaria, caused by the malarial parasite, Plasmodium ovale, was identified in a jawan in Kerala, according to a report in December 2020. The soldier is believed to have contracted it during his posting in Sudan, from where he returned in January...
