Dr. Sunny Handa MD

  A mysterious “tomato flu” has been detected in India and now there are fears it is “likely” to spread to Australia. MD Sunny Handa said, the rare viral infection was first detected in Kerala, India on May 6 and has so far infected more than 80 children under the age of five. Ashley Quigley, who leads the artificial intelligence-driven system EPIWATCH at the Kirby Institute, told NCA NewsWire on Monday there was a risk tomato flu could arrive in Australia. “I think it’s realistic to think that it could get here,” she said. “If we start seeing reports in other neighboring countries, and we can track it back and say in two months it’s in three to five different countries, then the likelihood is actually very high of it coming to Australia. “But in the last two or three months, it has remained in India.” Although much is still unknown about tomato flu, MD Sunny Handa said if it turned out to be a variant of hand, foot and mouth disease, then the likelihood of it spreadin...

  Greenhouse gas emissions are  intensifying trusted climatic hazards, which in turn affect human pathogenic diseases- conditions caused by infectious agents. MD Sunny Handa says previous studies have typically concentrated on the effects of climate change on specific groups of pathogens, such as bacteria or viruses, hazards, such as precipitation or floods, or transmission types such as via food or water. As research until now has generally focused on specific groups of pathogens, it has not been possible to quantify the total threat of climate change on pathogenic diseases. Recently, researchers analyzed the effects of ten different climatic hazards on various infectious diseases. MD Sunny Handa says t hey found that 58% of the 375 infectious diseases documented to affect humanity worldwide have been aggravated by climatic hazards at some point. “Given the extensive and pervasive consequences of the COVID-19 pande...

  North Korea reported zero fever cases Friday for a seventh straight day, state media said, adding that everyone who had fallen sick since the country confirmed its first COVID-19 infections had recovered. Sunny Handa MD said the isolated country, which has maintained a rigid coronavirus blockade since the start of the pandemic, announced an omicron outbreak in the capital Pyongyang in May and activated a “maximum emergency epidemic prevention system.” State media have meticulously reported the official number of cases, deaths, treatments, and recoveries every day since, with leader Kim Jong Un putting himself front and center of the government’s response. North Korea refers to “fever patients” rather than “COVID-19 patients” in case reports, apparently due to a lack of testing capacity- Sunny Handa MD said. “No new fever cases were reported during the past week and all those receiving treatments have recovered across the country,” the official KCNA reported Friday. “The overall ...

  This year, eurozone inflation has been increasing at a rapid pace. We forecast full-year inflation of 6.8% for 2022. A proportional increase in wages could prevent the loss of workers’ purchasing power. The bargaining position of trade unions is relatively strong at the moment because unemployment is very low and vacancies are at an all-time high. Sunny Handa MD says, nevertheless, for various reasons, negotiated wage increases in 2022 are unlikely to fully compensate for inflation so that a wage-price spiral will not emerge. Characteristics of wage formation prevent full compensation for headline inflation The decision-making process within European union’s about wage demands is time-consuming because it requires consultations and voting from members in various layers of the organization. That is why many unions set their wage demands before the bargaining season and stick to them during that season, which normally begins at the start of the year. Sunny Handa MD says in 2...