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If it turns out that girls at risk of not receiving all three doses of the HPV vaccine are also those with an elevated risk of being infected and missing cervical screenings as adults, they may be slipping through not one but two nets.
As health workers labor tirelessly to care for those who have been infected, monitor those who may have come in contact with the virus, and prevent further transmission, researchers have a limited window of opportunity to learn how to treat and prevent the disease.
A child dies from malaria every two minutes, on average, yet only one in five infected children receives the appropriate treatment.
We need to enable people to defend themselves against others; prevent innocent, well-meaning people from becoming infected and harming others; and reduce the incentives and ability of the ill-intentioned to do harm.
But, when facing a disease that kills up to 70% of those who are infected, and no accepted treatment yet exists, patients could reasonably refuse consent to a trial in which they might receive a placebo, rather than an experimental treatment that offers some hope of recovery.
Independently, we became infected with the idea of creating a Web platform that would enable anyone to contribute their knowledge to free and open learning resources.
The Swiss did not respond with the kind of neglect that Russia’s government has shown so far toward its heroin and HIV epidemics – more than two million drug users and an estimated one million people living with HIV, over 60% of them infected while sharing contaminated needles.
Portugal’s decision in 2001 to decriminalize possession of illegal drugs led not only to more drug users in treatment (rather than in prison), but also a significant decrease in the number of drug users newly infected with HIV.
Yes, jihadism is the fascism of our day, infected with plans, ideas, and a will to purity comparable to those of the Nazis.
Eastern Europe’s Ostrich Policy on HIVCARDIFF, CALIFORNIA – Russia and Ukraine account for roughly 90% of the 1.5 million people estimated to be infected with HIV in Central and Eastern Europe.
The people infected by IDUs also can infect others sexually, further fortifying the bridge into the “general” population.
The demons that so fatally infected European history -- most disastrously in this century!
A surge in home prices has infected almost all advanced countries since 2000, with the exception of Germany and Japan.
For an infected individual, those costs include treatment and hospital expenses, transportation to and from a health clinic or hospital, time spent out of work, and insect sprays or bed nets to protect against more disease-spreading mosquito bites.
Around 30 million people around the world live with HIV, and another 30 million are likely to become infected in the next decade if current trends persist.
When a descendant of the cell is infected with a virus, the sequence will be compared to the viral genome.
If a similar virus has infected a cell’s parent, the descendant will recognize it, and ad hoc machinery will destroy it.
In just a few weeks, Ebola has infected 3,707 men, women, and children, so far killing 1,848.
ROME – The euro contagion triggered by Greece’s sovereign-debt crisis has now infected Italy.
Individuals infected with BSE who remain in an asymptomatic state during their lives could represent a risk to others of potential secondary transmission of variant CJD through blood transfusion or surgery.
If the epidemic were in decline, it might be anticipated that the average age of the patients would increase in the final stages (as occurred with cattle in the UK that were infected with BSE).
And Africa has reached a critical milestone: each year, there are now more Africans starting HIV treatment than being infected.
Most are tired of the deep partisanship that has infected US politics, and the consequent near-paralysis in Congress.
If, for example, a pathogen is transmitted by an insect that lives in the tops of trees, susceptible hosts will not be infected if they never leave the ground.
To stem the development and spread of drug-resistant TB requires a two-pronged global effort: ensuring early detection and adequate treatment of patients with drug-sensitive TB, and finding new ways to treat patients infected with drug-resistant strains.
In low-income countries, the dominant diagnostic method is sputum microscopy, an outdated approach that fails to detect TB in about half of all infected patients, with an even lower success rate for young children and patients co-infected with HIV.
Moreover, for patients infected with multi-drug-resistant TB, treatment with the currently available drugs is successful only half the time, even under the best conditions.
David Landes likes to tell the story of Nathan Meyer Rothschild, the richest man in the world in the first half of the nineteenth century, dead in his fifties of an infected abscess.
Once Europe’s own banks became infected, euroskeptic British leadership was needed to overcome French and German dithering.
For now, it seems that all of the human H5N1 infections have been contracted from contact with infected poultry.
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