Contagious Disease and Self-Defence

Plant Disease and Defence

Pathogens have evolved elaborate mechanisms to invade plant tissues and cause disease. Plants, in turn, respond to pathogen infection by expressing multiple layers of resistance. Once low energy ‘basal’ defences of plant cells have been overcome by pathogens, the plant can employ a more energy costly system of nonself recognition that triggers an ‘acute’ immune response. The survival of plants ...

Stress proteins, self defence, and the myocardium.

Is Acute Dropsy (the New Disease) Contagious?

a large number have come under my observation. As the signs, symptoms and apparent causation of the disease agreed in many instances with Morehead's description of Beriberi, I had begun to regard the outbreak as one of veritable beriberi; and some of the last cases that occurred amongst the men of my regiment I entered under this heading. As Morehead's book may not be in every one's hands, I he...

Obstructive sleep apnea: a contagious disease?

Editorial Can we say that a disease is contagious if patients who die from it, in the act of dying, cause the deaths of others? In Wisconsin (USA), a group of 602 civil servants, ranging from 30 to 60 years of age, were evaluated. Among those, 24% of the males and 9% of the females were diagnosed with sleep-disordered breathing, defined as five or more attacks of apnea or hypopnea per hour of s...

Challenges, consequences and requirements of facing with the emerging contagious disease Crisis

Background and Aim: The pandemic of coronavirus as an emerging virus is still prevalent around the world, which in addition to high mortality, numerous economic losses, is a serious threat to the health of the world and has social and security consequences. The gap in knowledge about the cause, treatment options, and mortality of high COVID-19 has increased speculation about it and confused pol...