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Some believe that by 2010, the number of infected Chinese may reach 10 million.
On my recent visit, I met Mr. Du, a thin-framed, HIV-positive farmer who lost his wife to AIDS last year and was desperate to prevent his infected 7-year-old son from meeting the same fate.
The rural poor live closest to the infected animals that first transmit the disease.
Poor, often illiterate, individuals are generally unaware of how infectious diseases – especially unfamiliar diseases – are transmitted, making them much more likely to become infected and to infect others.
And “de-medicalized” conditions – with few if any professional health workers to ensure an appropriate public-health response to an epidemic (such as isolation of infected individuals, tracing of contacts, surveillance, and so forth) – make initial outbreaks more severe.
The crisis of confidence has infected the eurozone’s big countries.
As Reverby put it, “I’d spent nearly two decades explaining that there had been no inoculation at Tuskegee, that while the PHS had used deplorable ethics, they had never infected anyone with syphilis.”
There, “the US government’s health service had deliberately infected 427 Guatemalan men and women, prisoners and mental patients, with syphilis.”
After all, cervical cancer tends to target the most vulnerable in particular, such as women infected with HIV.
An estimated two billion people alive today have been infected with hepB, while 350 million people are chronically infected.
Those at the forefront of the fight against Ebola – including the United Nations Development Program – have been mobilizing communities against the disease, supporting medical teams, and helping survivors and families of the infected cope with the tragedy.
The number of people infected with HIV in Russia and Ukraine has increased by more than 18 times over the past five years.
The symptoms are there, even if the disease has not yet infected the entire body.
Dogs, the predominant host in most regions, can become infected from any rabid wild animal, and then infect humans.
Infected humans will eventually hallucinate, become aggressive, and even fear water in the advanced stages of the disease.
French scientist Louis Pasteur formulated the first rabies vaccine in 1885, by injecting the virus into rabbits, waiting for it to kill them, and then drying the infected nerve tissues to weaken the virus to the point that it could be safely administered.
And increasingly, some are viruses that have infected friends’ address books, with attachments that, if opened, could destroy my computer.
As this chimerism increases, it occasionally integrates genes from microbes that live within the human body – as happens when a human is infected by herpesvirus 6.
When antibiotics first entered into common use in the 1940s, previously dangerous conditions, such as pneumonia or infected cuts, became benign conditions that could be treated easily.
In recent decades, international and local cooperation have reduced Africa’s malaria deaths by 60% , pushed polio to the brink of eradication, and extended the lives of millions of Africans infected with HIV/AIDS.
Prior to 2014, however, the largest outbreak was in Uganda, in 2000, when 425 people were infected and 224 died.
In September 2014, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicted that, in the worst case, 1.4 million people could be infected within four months.
As of April 2015, the best estimate is that about 25,000 people have been infected, with approximately 10,000 deaths.
Should we not worry more about the 100% infected now, whom we can help much better, more cheaply, and with much greater effect?
Having grown up in a country where nearly one in four children infected with polio died from the disease, my heart soars when I imagine a world in which all families have access to lifesaving vaccines, freeing them from the burden of preventable death and disease.
One-third of the world’s population is infected with the causative agent, though only one in ten develops the active disease.
The bad news is that infected individuals carry the agent with them for their entire lives.
Some 50 million people are infected with tubercle bacilli that are MDR.
Some patients actually are infected with flu; others have colds or other respiratory infections, many of which also peak in the winter.
Rapid and effective isolation of infected cases, together with efficient tracing and monitoring of the contacts made by those infected with SARS, allowed public health officials in Hong Kong, Toronto, Singapore, and Vietnam to contain the epidemic.
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