Emerging Infectious Diseases: a Review

Watkins, Kevin

doi:10.1007/s40138-018-0162-9

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“…check its life style and forced to follow a new way of life that probably reduce the spread of infectious agents. There are numerous factors contributing to the spread of infectious agents in any country across a globe [1][2][3]. This might be associated with the geographical location, the socioeconomic status of the society, the level of awareness of the society and the health system of the country to combat emerging and re-emerging diseases and other related factors.…”

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Probable Factors Contributing to the Fast Spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Ethiopia

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2020

J Infect Dis Epidemiol

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The novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) has been a major public health trait across the world since its first emergence in Wuhan, China in 29 th December 2019. The fact that the disease is new little has been known about the virus and factors contributing to the fast spread of the virus. WHO recommendations to control the spread of the virus are universal and needs contextualization further analysis of contributing factors at country level. Hence, countries across the globe implemented different controlling strategies to reduce the number of people infected by the virus. However, the virus has been spreading rapidly in an alarming rate across the globe. Ethiopia is among the countries where the virus has been spreading very fast. The government of Ethiopia declared a 5-month State of Emergency in an effort to limit the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on 14 th April 2020, however, the virus has been spreading in all regions of the country. In this review, factors that might contribute the spread of the novel corona virus directly or indirectly in Ethiopia were analysed. These factors are poor knowledge and practice of the hygienic condition of the public during service delivery, day to day personal activities, socioeconomic nature of the society, political instability and the knowledge, attitude and practice of HCWs are mentioned. Strong intervention measures should be taken to mitigate the contributing factors that are tremendously important to control the spread of the novel corona virus in the country. In addition, research should be conducted to know the level of impact of each contributing factor in Ethiopia.

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Probable Factors Contributing to the Fast Spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Ethiopia

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2020

J Infect Dis Epidemiol

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“…A healthy human body is a symbiosis between human and microbial components [59]. However, sometimes that symbiotic balance can be disturbed, and human health can be impaired by pathogenic microorganisms (i.e., bacteria, fungi, parasites or viruses), the use of effective antimicrobial drugs being needed to restore health normality [60,61].…”

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Uncharted Source of Medicinal Products: The Case of the Hedychium Genus

2020

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A current research topic of great interest is the study of the therapeutic properties of plants and of their bioactive secondary metabolites. Plants have been used to treat all types of health problems from allergies to cancer, in addition to their use in the perfumery industry and as food. Hedychium species are among those plants used in folk medicine in several countries and several works have been reported to verify if and how effectively these plants exert the effects reported in folk medicine, studying their essential oils, extracts and pure secondary metabolites. Hedychium coronarium and Hedychium spicatum are the most studied species. Interesting compounds have been identified like coronarin D, which possesses antibacterial, antifungal and antitumor activities, as well as isocoronarin D, linalool and villosin that exhibit better cytotoxicity towards tumor cell lines than the reference compounds used, with villosin not affecting the non-tumor cell line. Linalool and α-pinene are the most active compounds found in Hedychium essential oils, while β-pinene is identified as the most widespread compound, being reported in 12 different Hedychium species. Since only some Hedychium species have been investigated, this review hopes to shed some light on the uncharted territory that is the Hedychium genus.

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“…Viral contaminations are one of the main sources of dreadfulness and mortality in worldwide and which is one of the main purposes behind the huge economic losses [ 14 , 15 ]. Viral particles are the most tolerant and smart nanoparticles because it has in every case excitedly featured their basic attractive feature of nanoscale and their organic progeny in moving their hereditary substance into target cells and grab them to express of proteins.…”

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