Parasitology & Infectious Diseases 2021

  After Covid-19, is world more focused on infectious diseases? Like education, health is also a very important thing to be kept in mind.   It is an investment in human capital that can help break cycles of poverty and political instability— contributing to national and global economic development. It plays a vital role in growth of a country or a region. After the spread of novel corona virus , the world is more focused on infectious diseases . In recent months, we saw lakhs of deaths due to this deadly virus. Infectious diseases rather than any geographical and political conditions, it affects whole community.   The challenges posed by infectious diseases demand high   efforts along a number of fronts, from treating individual patients and preventing the spread of disease within communities to shaping public policies   in the whole world. Every country is now well- prepared for these diseases. Due to a vast difference between industrialized and devel...

Do you know COVID-19 may also affect the central nervous system? COVID-19 is belongs to large family of viral and infectious diseases with the symptoms of cough, shortness of breath, fever, joint pains. The symptoms of COVID-19 related to neurological include dizziness, headache, loss of weight and loss the control of muscle. Once the virus is entered into central nervous system, they tend to release the proteins called cytokines. This causes the swelling in the central nervous system and affects the blood-brain barrier. Corona virus can enter by the central nervous system through a porous bone in the nasal cavity. In this we may loss smell or taste as we usually experienced in COVID-19. If the patient knows that he was affected with COVID-19 they may get panic. It may cause large degree of psychological distress to that patient. Some studies state that few of the symptoms of the psychological distress are depressed mood and anxiety these are also the symptoms for central nervous ...