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The Fight to End Pandemics
Bangkok :: Thailand | 1 month ago
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Accelerating entrepreneurial approaches and innovative solutions...Brilliant helped lead the successful WHO smallpox eradication programme in India. World Health Day April 7 honors the creation of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948. Each
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China Times: Comprehensive strategy against H7N9 needed
Sars :: Russia | 1 month ago
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Learning from the lesson, Taiwan made great efforts to rebuild infectious disease management systems within hospitals...Taiwan again resorted to its same old ways and failed to see that the key to combating the disease was the use of vaccines,
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The U.S. Market for Urgent Care Centers
Urgent care centers in the United States provide an increasingly important option between a physician’s office and a hospital emergency room. They provide walk-in, extended hour access for acute illness and injury care that is either
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Australia: Infectious diseases experts - stay away from bats
Canberra :: Australia | 1 month ago
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Australian bats and flying foxes in 1996 and remains common in both animals, though human infection is extremely tare. Two adult cases were confirmed in 1996 and 1998, and followed a similar disease course to rabies before being fatal in both cases.
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Superbug reports spark concern
Melbourne :: Australia | 2 months ago
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Healthy Australian men are falling ill with superbug infections after prostate biopsies, and doctors fear the bacteria is coming from contaminated food. In a worrying trend, head of infectious diseases at the Austin Hospital, Professor Lindsay
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No more suspected Corona virus cases in Qatar: Official
Doha :: Qatar | 2 months ago
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Some 70 suspected cases of the deadly corona virus had been found in Qatar since the disease was first detected last year but all the new cases were tested negative, a senior official of the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) said yesterday. There were
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A decade after devastating outbreak, is the world better prepared for next SARS?
Sars :: Russia | 2 months ago
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An unknown bat virus that found a way into human lungs in 2003 served as a global wake-up call to the threat of new infectious diseases...In the main, depending on where you live, the answer is likely yes, many experts say though some are unimpressed
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Studies Advance Knowledge of HIV Impact on Hepatitis C Infection and Genes That May Thwart Hepatitis C Infection
Charlottesville :: VA :: USA | 3 months ago
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Source Newsroom: Newswise Infectious disease experts at Johns Hopkins have found that among people infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV), co-infection with HIV, speeds damage and scarring of liver tissue by almost a decade.
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A Tribute To Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
Bethesda :: MD :: USA | 3 months ago
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A frequent statement of mine is, We need public health leadership that cares enough, knows enough, is willing to do enough, and will be persistent...Everett Koop was just such a leader, for he was caring; he was competent; he was courageous; and he
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UAE lifts ban on importing cows from Europe
Dubai :: United Arab Emirates | 3 months ago
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The decision came in the light of the environment and water ministry's keenness to achieve food security and protect the community and livestock from diseases. Minister of Environment and Water Rashid Ahmed bin Fahad issued a statement that
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