Health care

Over the past decade, the percentage of illnesses of schoolchildren has increased 27 times. Only 7% of modern school-age children have a satisfactory state of health.

At the London Imperial College, the specialists, together with researchers from the National Institute of Health, are very close to creating a universal vaccine, thanks to which the human body will be able to withstand virtually any viral infections.

British scientists have informed the world of the first known case of transmission of the avian influenza virus not from animal to human, but from person to person. In the popular scientific journal of Great Britain, an article appeared that in China a thirty-two-year-old woman contracted avian influenza while communicating with a sick father.

Vietnamese scientists managed to find out that some cycloviruses, which previously were considered harmless to human health, can cause diseases with a fatal outcome.