What is a Patient Zero?

The expression patient zero comes from epidemiology. In medicine it describes the first person infected in an epidemic or a pandemic.  The expression patient zero comes from epidemiology (the study of the spread of disease.) Epidemiologists are kind of medical detectives. It is important to now where diseases start in order to control them. The term was first used widely in…… Continue reading What is a Patient Zero?

Wash your hands to save your life

The word Hygiene comes from the Latin word hygieina which means healthy. Hygiene is all of the things we do to protect our health through cleanliness. The current outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that was first reported from Wuhan, China. It has become an emergency for the world and the World Health Organisation (WHO) is…… Continue reading Wash your hands to save your life