A four-year-old girl is baffling medics with a four-month-long fever and a string of other agonising conditions. Isabella, 4, poses in undated photo. She has had had a high fever for more than four months and the doctors in the province still cannot diagnose her, in Corrientes, Argentina. (@veronicagabrielariver/Newsflash) Little…
This is the moment a mother does not need a thermometer to see if her son is suffering from a fever as clouds of steam pour from his head as he rests in bed. The video was shot at the family home in Handan, Hebei Province, south west China. The…
The discovery of a special antibody could help prevent dangerous bacterial infections such as trench fever, whose sufferers included celebrated authors like J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. Trench fever, or five-day fever, is transmitted by body lice. An estimated 20 to 30 per cent of Britain’s World…
his Spanish journalist has hit the headlines after using a thermal camera to check his temperature live on-air outside a makeshift coronavirus hospital and registering a fever. Journalist Lorenzo Diaz was reporting from the IFEMA conference centre which has been turned into a hospital to fight COVID-19 in the Spanish…
A new cluster of the deadly African swine fever virus has emerged in China amid the coronavirus pandemic after officials reported 64 new pig deaths at the weekend. The virus which causes African swine fever is responsible for the deaths of more than half of China’s hog population in the…