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Lyme disease – causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention
With the onset of summer sunny days, most citizens seek out of the urban stone-concrete jungle into the forest, into nature. But it is precisely at this time that the rest in the vast expanses of forest lays the main danger in this period – ticks. They, as we know, become carriers of dangerous infectious diseases. And this is not only tick-borne encephalitis. Often, in the spring-summer period, inattentive lovers of forest trips are lurking such an infectious disease as tick-borne borreliosis, or Lyme disease, which becomes the carrier of the ixodic tick. Continue reading
Can you get infected by kissing and other myths about hepatitis, knowledge of which will keep you healthy
July 28, in honor of the birthday of the Nobel laureate Baruch Blumberg, who discovered the hepatitis B virus, celebrates World Hepatitis Day. This disease is overwhelmed with rumors: someone says that only those who use alcohol or injecting drugs suffer from it, others are afraid that you can even become infected at a hairdresser or through a lipstick tester. What can be considered true from this and how to actually protect oneself from infection is in the material. Continue reading