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Anomalocaris ("unlike other shrimp", or "abnormal shrimp") is an extinct genus of radiodont, an order of early-diverging stem-group marine arthropods.. It is best known from the type species A. canadensis, found in the Stephen Formation (particularly the Burgess Shale) of British Columbia, Canada.
Most people infected with the virus do not have symptoms. Symptoms may include nausea , headache , vomiting and fever in milder cases. Severe disease occurs most commonly in children under the age of 16 and is characterized by, and seizures , coma , paralysis and permanent brain damage and a variety of neurological sequelae after recovery.
Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.
Respiratory syncytial virus, more commonly referred to as RSV, affects most people before they’re two years old. However, if you are older than 65 or a caregiver for someone older than 65, it ...
Formerly referred to as "Anomalocaris" briggsi, it was placed in the new monotypic genus Echidnacaris in 2023. [1] It is only distantly related to true Anomalocaris, and is instead placed in the family Tamisiocarididae. [2] Echidnacaris is primarily known from its frontal appendages which had 13 podomeres. [1]
Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal infections , an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered ...
The type species is Houcaris saron which was originally described as a species of the related genus Anomalocaris. [1] Other possible species include H. magnabasis and H. consimilis . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The genus Houcaris was established for the two species in 2021 and honors Hou Xianguang, who had discovered and named the type species Anomalocaris ...
There are no proven antiviral drugs to treat adenoviral infections, so treatment is largely directed at the symptoms (such as acetaminophen for fever). The antiviral drug cidofovir has helped certain of those patients who had severe cases of illness; the number helped and to what degree, and the particular complications or symptoms it helped ...