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Today, tuberculosis, or TB, is still one of the world’s biggest infectious killers, causing more deaths than malaria or even HIV and AIDS.
While these are infectious and require treatment, usually with topical creams, wart-causing strains don’t create longer-term damage.
We did all the standard blood tests for infections, and we could not find an infectious cause for her fever.
I'm a microbiologist and infectious disease expert, and I find this fascinating.
So, for example, if people have some level of immunity to the disease, then they can develop an infection and become infectious and still pass it on but not actually develop any symptoms, and that can be a big problem, because how do you find those people?
Then, inside the human, it goes through a whole other cycle, a whole other part of the life cycle, so it goes through a liver stage, changes shape, and then comes out into the bloodstream again, and eventually, that person will become infectious.
On the far left-hand side, that bar represents a group of people who are uninfected, and as we move towards the right-hand side, these people have become infected and they're moving towards the stage that they're infectious.
And so now, of course, we have this global problem in infectious diseases.
But a lot of money has been thrown out at the local level and at the federal level to look at infectious diseases.
And it was only through the industrialized fermentation of penicillin that millions could survive infectious diseases.
This lab belongs to Alexander Fleming, a Scottish scientist investigating the properties of infectious bacteria.
The way the pace of natural selection affects human health is probably most obvious in people's relationship with infectious pathogens.
[From infectious disease expert Adam Kucharski] [Question 1: What does containment mean when it comes to outbreaks?]
But a really important paper three weeks ago, in the "Emerging Infectious Diseases" journal came out, suggesting that looking back on the Wuhan data, it's really 5.7.
It exploits the vulnerability of the virus in that, when a person gets infected, they're not infectious for about three days.
Several months ago a highly infectious, sometimes deadly respiratory virus infected humans for the first time.
So which strategy is best for this deadly, infectious respiratory virus?
Ladies and gentlemen, imagine getting seven infectious mosquito bites every day.
That's 2,555 infectious bites every year.
So, hopefully, we will go from being the art of medicine more to the science of medicine, and be able to do what they do in infectious disease, which is look at that organism, that bacteria, and then say, "This antibiotic makes sense, because you have a particular bacteria that will respond to it."
The good news is that we're at a moment in time when science, technology, globalization is converging to create an unprecedented possibility: the possibility to make history by preventing infectious diseases that still account for one-fifth of all deaths and countless misery on Earth.
New infectious diseases appear or reappear every few years.
No longer do the poor and vulnerable need to be threatened by infectious diseases, or indeed, anybody.
The music sequences are far more successful than the attempts at movie satire and, for the first thirty minutes or so, Jack Black's manic enthusiasm is infectious.
Furthermore, the cinematography does absolutely nothing to convey the whimsical beauty of Gaudi's architecture or the infectious charm of Barcelona.
THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED (TGGEP, 2005) is an amazingly uplifting, infectious underdog film that never (really) devolves into sappiness or heavyhandedness.
The two-dimensional characters are so overly serious they actually become endearing, and the movie's silliness is infectious.
The sense of gleefully raucous fun this picture generates is positively infectious.
The human cast is also quite nice, with everyone giving upbeat performances that are infectious.
Like the 5-year old protagonists of his latest opus, Hayao Miyazaki's "Ponyo" enchants with its unbridled innocence as though the anime-meister has become a child himself in weaving a narrative that relishes in its simplicity and emits an infectious charm in the process.
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