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A micrograph of the West Nile Virus, appearing in yellow. Image: Cynthia Goldsmith, P.E. Rollin, USCDCP, public domain
Horse owners in South Africa are urged to vaccinate their animals against West Nile Virus after researchers examined the circumstances behind a surge in serious cases in 2016-2017.
West Nile virus (WNV) is endemic to South Africa, but became recognized as a significant cause of neurological disease in humans and horses in the country in only the past two decades, as it emerged globally.
Scientists Freude‐Marié Bertram, Peter Thompson and Marietjie Venter, in a study published in the journal
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In this opinion piece, Andrei Surguchov, Professor of Neurology at University of Kansas Medical Center and Chief Editor of Biochemistry Research International, reflects on the impact the COVID-19 has had on the epidemic of neurodegenerative diseases and dementia.
Lack of an active treatment strategy and vaccine makes SARS-CoV-2 infection an immense threat to humankind. The COVID-19 pandemic arrived when the world was already facing other rising health problems, one of the most serious of which is the epidemic of neurodegenerative diseases and dementia. Now there are some signs of stabilization of COVID-19 spread, at least in some countries and hope for the development of a vaccine. Therefore, it is time to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic interferes with another challenge – the epidemic of neurodegenerative diseases. How do these two threats to human health affect each other and what can physicians and researchers do to alleviate the