Medicine

A neighborhood in the western province of Aydın has been taken under quarantine for six months after a cat with rabies attacked two local women and a cow.

Bulgaria has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus on a farm in the northeastern district of Dobrich, the national food safety agency said on Monday, quoted by Reuters. 

The virus, found on a farm in the town of General Toshevo, located near the border with Romania, would lead to the death of 140,000 birds, the agency said.

 An outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu was found on a poultry farm in General Toshevo in the region of Dobrich, said the press office of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency.

It's late winter 2016, at a makeshift cemetery for Muslim migrants on Lesvos, less than 10 nautical miles off the Turkish coast. An imam in a white hazmat suit reads a prayer as a 3-year-old girl who died of meningitis shortly after landing on the eastern Aegean island is laid to rest. A red excavator is on standby to cover her grave after the end of the short ritual.

After a sixth patient died from measles complications - a 4-year-old child who had not been vaccinated against the disease - Brnabic said that "all of this is happening because citizens listened to people who do not have any medical knowledge" - i.e., those campaigning against vaccination.

The child, who was not vaccinated against measles and who developed pneumonia, is officially the sixth victim of the infectious disease.

There have been 2,896 cases of measles in central Serbia and in Serb municipalities in Kosovo since October, with 1,448 cases confirmed in Torlak Institute's laboratories.

The youngest patient was 15 days old, while the oldest was 65.

The measles outbreak in Greece is showing no signs of slowing down, with the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (KEELPNO) saying Thursday that there have been 1,829 recorded cases since last May.

The center said the number of cases doubled in the first two months of the year, compared to 922 reported in late December.

Parliament on Thursday approved legislation allowing the manufacture of cannabis for medicinal purposes.

The new legislation sets out the rules governing the cultivation and production of the particular types of the plant that are used for pharmaceutical purposes, as well as the operation of manufacturing units.

Manuel and his wife never stop coughing but they’re happy: At least their baby doesn’t have measles anymore.

The woman, who has not been named, died two days ago.

Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar explained on Wednesday that she worked at the clinic as a member of non-medical staff.

According to unofficial information, the woman was on a long-term sick leave due to an unrelated chronic condition.