Index Home Malaria is an infection, caused by a tiny bug – Plasmodium and its species. This bug enters human body by a mosquito-bite and multiplies, leading to fever. Bug also exits through a mosquito completing a cycle. Malaria cycle was discovered in 1897 by Ronald Ross, which earned him 1902 Nobel in Medicine. We however… Continue reading 1962 – A malaria story
Month: October 2022
Leprosy: Saga of an eternal discrimination
Index Home Leprosy is an infection, affecting skin and the nerves. We discovered organism causing this infection, Mycobacterium leprae in 1873, nine years before its more famous counterpart Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Saga of discrimination and leprosy is eternal. Society discriminated against sufferers of this disease, and scientific community against Dr Gerhard Hansen – a Norwegian Physician who… Continue reading Leprosy: Saga of an eternal discrimination
COVID pandemic: A turbulent cove on a straight coastline
Index Home World before COVID: A straight coastline Beginning of 2019 was quite oblivious to the coming times. We had extended pains of terrorism, Syrian civil war, human displacements, Donald Trump, Brexit, environmental pollution, and anti-establishment protests from the previous years. On the global health front, 2018 Ebola epidemic had passed into 2019. We believed that… Continue reading COVID pandemic: A turbulent cove on a straight coastline