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Infectious Diseases Today
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Latest news and information pertaining to infectious diseases.
- Added on: Sep 11th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Robert Herriman
- Listed in: Health Medicine
- Tags: parasites public health bacteria infectious diseases viruses tropical diseases
Recent Posts
Vietnam experiences 5th bird flu death of 2009: this one due to eating raw duck blood soup
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has reported the death of a 23 year old man from the Dien Bien Province. This is the 5th death this year due to avian influenza H5N1. The man was admitted to the hospital on November 26 and died of pneumonia two day...
Outbreak of anthrax in Philippine village
Approximately 50 people from a small Isabela village in the Cagayan Valley region in Luzon have been hospitalized after eating anthrax-contaminated carabao meat.In addition to the sick patients, at least six carabaos have died from the dreaded diseas...
A look at human botfly infestation
This rare and quite disgusting condition is known as myiasis, an infection or infestation of the body of animals and more rarely, humans, with the larva of botflies and related species. In other words: maggots in your body.Primarily a veterinary issu...
Syphilis cases in North Carolina double from same time last year
The North Carolina Division of Public Health has noted a disturbing issue in the state; increases in sexually transmitted infections and of note a doubling of syphilis cases the same time period last year.Throughout the state during the first nine mo...
Study says red wine can prevent bacteria which results in cavities
According to a study to be published in the journal Food Chemistry, researchers have concluded that drinking moderate amounts of red wine help rinse teeth clean of cavity producing bacteria during and after meals.A researcher from Pavia University in...
The two agents of “rat-bite fever”
“Rat-bite fever” is a general term to describe two relatively rare bacterial infections: Streptobacillus moniliformis, also known as Haverhill fever, and Spirillum minor, also known as Sodoku.Both bacteria are normal or commensal organisms found ...
