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The virus is normally carried by infected rodents and spread to humans through contact with urine or droppings An Iowa resident has died from rare Lassa fever. What to know about the virus
The disease has an overall fatality rate of just 1%, according to the World Health Organization. In severe cases, the patient may have bleeding; difficulty breathing; pain in the chest, back and ...
An Iowa resident has died after contracting a suspected case of Lassa fever, health officials said. The patient was diagnosed Tuesday after returning to the United States from West Africa earlier ...
Glycogen storage disease type VII or Tarui's disease [1] [2] A rendering of the human muscular form of phosphofructokinase. Mutations in the production of this enzyme are the cause of Tarui's disease. [3] The symmetry of the enzyme is a result of its tetrameric structure. Specialty: Endocrinology Symptoms: Muscle pain, exercise intolerance ...
This is a list of major and frequently observed neurological disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), symptoms (e.g., back pain), signs (e.g., aphasia) and syndromes (e.g., Aicardi syndrome). There is disagreement over the definitions and criteria used to delineate various disorders and whether some of these conditions should be classified as ...
The following is a list of genetic disorders and if known, type of mutation and for the chromosome involved. Although the parlance "disease-causing gene" is common, it is the occurrence of an abnormality in the parents that causes the impairment to develop within the child.
It is characterized by variable reductions in serum immunoglobulin (IgG, IgM and/or IgA) levels which cause most ICF patients to succumb to infectious diseases before adulthood. ICF syndrome patients exhibit facial anomalies which include hypertelorism , low-set ears , epicanthal folds and macroglossia . [ 3 ]
A Missouri resident contracted a rare and fatal brain-eating amoeba while swimming in an Iowa lake, prompting the closure of the Lake of Three Fires.