Peptic ulcer disease

At least fifteen people died and more than 50 others were hospitalized in southern Tanzania due to an unidentified infection that caused many to experience nausea and vomit blood, health officials said on Feb. 7.

A study conducted at a research and training hospital in the capital Ankara found links between COVID-19 and a widely-infectious bacteria.

The study - Effect of Helicobacter Pylori on the Presentation and Clinical Course of COVID-19 Infection - was published in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition last month.

Bosnia's University Clinical Hospital in Mostar, in southwest Bosnia, will have to pay a former patient about 20,000 convertible marks - around 10,000 euros - plus interest and the costs of court proceedings, for leaving a pair of scissors in his stomach by mistake in 2003.