Infectious causes of cancer

Monday's Google Doodle paid tribute to Georgios Papanikolaou, the Greek medic and researcher who invented the smear test to detect early signs of cervical and uterine cancer.

The doodle, an illustration of him inspecting cells under a microscope, was available in 12 countries around the world.

Bulgaria is at the forefront in Europe in cases and mortality of cervical cancer. According to the National Cancer Registry in 2014 and 2015, more than 1,000 women are diagnosed with this disease per year and deaths are 349 in 2014 and 381 in 2015.

A Hong Kong man has developed the world's first ever human case of the rat version of the hepatitis E virus, according to new research from one of the city's leading universities.

Nearly every fourth of every ten cases of cancer in the United States (42%) are due to poor lifestyle choices, including smoking, poor nutrition and other avoidable factors. This shows a new study by American scientists, which calculates the contribution of several so-called variable risk factors for the onset of cancer, reports actualno. 

Hepatitis E can cause liver cirrhosis in vulnerable people.

Pork products sold by a leading British supermarket may have infected thousands of people with a form of hepatitis that can cause liver cirrhosis, according to health officials.

At least three people worldwide are infected with totally untreatable “superbug” strains of gonorrhoea which they are likely to be spreading to others through sex, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

In a world obsessed with everything about sex, and let’s be frank, with the rise of hedonism and pleasure, having “relations” with animals is just one more “preference”. Some of course would consider this choice as perverse, but others are turned on by fornicating with animals. All over the world and from varying cultures supporters of bestiality see nothing unnatural with their choices!

An association representing people with liver disease has backed a complaint lodged with Greece's Ombudsman by a former employee of the Greek Police who was allegedly dismissed after being diagnosed with Hepatitis B.

BELGRADE - Viruses, it turns out, have most likely evolved to affect men in more severe ways than women: tuberculosis, papillomavirus, and others have that in common. Now a fresh study has discovered the surprising reason why that might be.

In messages sent ahead of International AIDS Day on December 1, experts reported that a lack of awareness, in particular among the young, and the large influx of migrants to Greece were the main cause for the rapid increase in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in recent years.