Day: November 16, 2021

Scientists from Argentina and the United States have discovered a second case of natural recovery from HIV from inserting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) into their cells without resorting to medical intervention. The case of the Argentinean woman, referred to by experts as the “Esperanza patient”, is the second known natural cure in the world. An article dedicated to the case of self-relieving HIV was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. HIV inserts copies of its genome into the DNA of the body's cells, creating the so-called viral reservoirs, which allow it to “hide” from immunity and medicinal products, and produces new copies of itself. However, there are people – the so-called “elite controllers” – whose bodies succeed in suppressing the spread of HIV. There are few of them among HIV-infected – only 0.1-2.5 percent – and scientists are closely monitoring them in the hope of finding out the

Warning sirens turned on because of an impending hurricane in Novorossiysk In Novorossiysk, local authorities turned on warning sirens because of an impending hurricane. The corresponding notification appeared on the website of the city administration. “The signal informs about a complex of unfavorable weather conditions predicted on the territory of Novorossiysk,” the message says. The city will keep the wind 25-30 meters per second with gusts up to 38 meters per second, a hurricane. Residents were advised to hide in underground passages or entrances if a strong wind caught them on the street. Earlier, residents of Moscow were promised a sharp change in the weather. According to weather forecasters, on November 20, the city dwellers will have a temperature record. Atmospheric pressure will drop to abnormally low values. At the end of the week, the height of the snow cover can reach 5-10 centimeters.

A baby was killed in Shatura after being admitted to a hospital with a traumatic brain injury from a stab wound to the chest. REN TV writes about the incident. On November 13, a newborn girl fell to the floor, her mother found her and called an ambulance, saying that her daughter had nosebleeds. The arrived medical team hospitalized the baby with a closed craniocerebral injury. The next day the child died, the examination showed that the girl died as a result of a stab wound. Investigators opened a criminal case on the murder, all the circumstances of the incident are being established. Earlier it was reported that in St. Petersburg a newborn boy died after a visit to the hospital. In early September, the child was admitted to the Children's City Clinical Hospital No. 5 named after Filatov with purulent inflammation. He spent almost a week in the hospital.

The Animal Health Organization has warned of increased avian influenza Avian influenza outbreaks increased worldwide in 2021. Cases of mass death of birds occurred in Europe and Asia, and in China, people died from a mutated virus. The Guardian reports data from the World Organization for Animal Health. Hundreds of thousands of birds have become infected with the virus on poultry farms in Norway, South Korea and Japan. On Monday, at one of the Korean factories, an outbreak affected 770,000 animals, all of them had to be destroyed. The high risk of the spread of bird flu threatens other countries as well. France, Belgium and the Netherlands have already warned farmers and imposed restrictive measures on their farms. In China, it is reported that 21 people died from the H5N6 strain of avian influenza in 2021. Like many other types of this flu, this virus can infect humans. The H5N8

Military historian Yulin: Europe will ease sanctions against Belarus after the elections in Poland Poland is partly beneficial to the migration crisis, because thanks to a tough position on this issue, the ruling party managed to significantly raise its rating on the eve of the elections, said military historian Boris Yulin. In a conversation with “Lenta.ru”, he suggested that after the elections, Europe may agree to soften sanctions against Belarus, and the head of state Alexander Lukashenko himself will remove migrants from the border. Polish border guards began to disperse groups of illegal migrants. gathered on the border with Belarus, using a water cannon, tear gas and stun grenades. There has been no shooting yet, but Yulin is sure that such a possibility cannot be ruled out. “Now everything depends solely on how the political positions develop. Both sides use migrants as a tool to put pressure on each other.

On November 21, Ufa will host a casting for the Snow Maidens competition “Karkhylyukai – 2021” – 2021 “. As clarifies “Bashinform”, the event will take place on November 21. The organizers indicated that both girls 7-10 years old and older girls aged 18-30 years old can take part in the competition. The name of the winner of the competition will be announced in the winter at the State Concert Hall “Bashkortostan”. The Bashkir Snow Maiden, who succeeds in winning the Grand Prix, will receive a cash prize of 300 thousand rubles, and those who won the first three places will receive an award in the form of 50, 30 and 20 thousand rubles. The rest of the finalists are promised to be awarded valuable prizes. Speaking about the competition, the director of the competition, Aigul Utyaganova, noted that the show, which will be held in Ufa, was conceived as

“Interfax”: HRC and SZHR sent to the State Duma a draft law on amendments to the law on foreign agents Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC) and the Union of Journalists of Russia (UJR) have sent to the State Duma a bill on amendments to the law on foreign agents. This is reported by Interfax with reference to representatives of organizations. It is noted that the amendments were sent for consideration to the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications Alexander Khinshtein. HRC member Eva Merkacheva said that the Council sent two bills, one of them contains amendments to the law on individuals, and the second to the law on non-profit organizations. “That is, they are determined by different laws, therefore amendments should be in different laws,” she clarified. According to her, the HRC members suggested that the authorities warn individuals and non-profit organizations

Lukashenko: Poles misled Germany, Merkel and the entire European Union President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko temporarily said Acting German Chancellor Angela Merkel on humanitarian aid for migrants at the border. This was reported by BelTA. “Germany, Merkel and the entire European Union were misled by the Poles that the refugees do not receive humanitarian aid, and the reason for this is Belarus, that we are blocking the supply of humanitarian aid for these refugees. Poland allegedly wanted to, but they would not let it in, ”Lukashenka said at a meeting on the situation at the border. He claims that the Poles cannot have problems with the delivery of aid. “Please, bring it to the border, send it through this barbed wire, as you lined up there. If you want to remove the barbed wire, we do not mind – remove it and drive right up to the refugees. There are

Pharmacologist Kondrakhin said that Paxlovid is similar to the anti-HIV drug used in the Russian Federation .ru “that the composition of the drug Paxlovid, tested by the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer against COVID-19, is similar to the drug already used in Russia against the new coronavirus infection, which was originally created to fight the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). < p>Earlier, Vedomosti reported that Roszdravnadzor had given Pfizer permission to conduct clinical trials in Russia of Paxlovid, a protease inhibitor plus ritonavir, developed for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. According to the developer, the second phase of clinical trials showed that Paxlovid helped reduce the risk of hospitalization or death from COVID-19 by 89 percent. “It's called Find the Differences. We tried to treat at the beginning of the pandemic with ritonavir, there was the drug Kaletra, which was used to treat AIDS patients, it contains ritonavir and lopinavir, which

Virologist Altstein: the drug Pfizer from COVID-19 is effective in the first days of the disease be effective in the early days of the disease. So the new tool was evaluated by the Russian virologist Anatoly Altstein on the air of the radio station “Moscow speaks.” As a result, for the first time we have a specific drug that will treat a coronavirus infection, “the virologist explained. Altstein believes that the Pfizer drug for COVID-19 is not particularly toxic. According to him, for a good effect, it is necessary to take the drug in the early stages of the disease, later the remedy may lose its force. On the eve of Roszdravnadzor gave permission to the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer to conduct clinical trials of the effectiveness of the drug against COVID-19 in Russia. Pfizer clarified that Paxlovid can be used to prevent coronavirus and treat patients with severe disease.