Behind his infectious smile and cheeky spirit, baby Cooper was suffering.
Shortly after he was born, Elizabeth Tierney s son was diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening form of mitochondrial disease, also known as mito.
The debilitating genetic disorder starves the body s cells of energy, causing multiple organ dysfunction or failure and potentially death, according to the Australian Mitochondrial Disease Foundation. It was devastating, Ms Tierney told SBS News of Cooper s time in and out of hospital. We had oxygen tanks, he was receiving 26 doses of medication each day . you don t plan a family with the thought that that even existed.
Zakat al-Fitr distribution amid lockdown: Here’s Mangaluru Qadhi’s advice
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May 10, 2021
Mangaluru, May 10: Twaqa Ahmed Musliyar, the Qadhi of Mangaluru, has issued an important advice regarding distribution of Zakat al-Fitr amid covid lockdown.
The Qadhi has urged the people not to violate the lockdown guidelines issued by the state government to control the covid-19 during or after Ramadan.
Following are the three important guidelines by the Qadhi to be followed by the Muslims:
1. Zakat al-Fitr can be distributed anytime in the month of Ramadan. However, it will be valid only if the beneficiary will be alive till the day of Eid al-Fitr.
Researchers have successfully developed a new Strep A human challenge model, paving the way to test vaccines against the common deadly bacteria that causes sore throats, scarlet fever and skin sores.
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Researchers have successfully developed a new Strep A human challenge model, paving the way to test vaccines against the common deadly bacteria that causes sore throats, scarlet fever and skin sores.
The collaborative research effort, led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and published in The Lancet Microbe, found the model, which deliberately infected healthy adult volunteers with the bacteria in a controlled environment, was safe and would now be used to trial Strep A candidate vaccines.
Strep A infections affect about 750 million people and kill more than 500,000 globally every year – more than influenza, typhoid or whooping cough. Strep A can also cause severe life-threatening infections like toxic shock syndrome and flesh eating disease and post-infectious illnesses such as acute rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease and kidney disease.
COVID-19 forecasters warn India deaths may double in coming weeks By Jeanette Rodrigues and Michelle Fay Cortez, Bloomberg News
Published: May 9, 2021, 10:55am
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The coronavirus wave that plunged India into the world’s biggest health crisis has the potential to worsen in the coming weeks, with some research models projecting that the death toll could more than double from current levels.
A team at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore used a mathematical model to predict about 404,000 deaths will occur by June 11 if current trends continue. A model from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington forecast 1,018,879 deaths by the end of July.