To determine the sexual risk behaviour and the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) among Dutch marines and naval personnel during a United Nations (UN) deployment.Surveillance by post deployment questionnaire, administered to 2289 persons in three successive battalions who served for 6 mont...
The disease was first characterized in the 1940s in the Crimea when a severe hemorrhagic fever epidemic sparked. The virus was then coined “Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus” (CCHFV), following isolation of the antigenically identical Congo virus in 1956. The virus belongs to the Nairovirus...
Thus, the discovery of penicillin and its use against both syphilis and gonorrhoea in the 1940s was hailed as a major breakthrough. Penicillin was not, however, active against nongonococcal infections. The tetracyclines, introduced in the late 1940s, were effective, although their speci c ...
Since the commercialization of penicillin in the 1940s, the development of new antibiotics has been followed closely by the discovery of bacteria resistant to them. While the development of new molecules has become slower and slower, the development of antibacterial resistance is on the contrary incr...
The commission investigating the program revealed that around 5,500 people were subjected to diagnostic testing, and over 1,300 were exposed to venereal diseases by contact or inoculations, the Telegraph reports. US STD experiments in Guatemala during 1940s killed 83: Report And the book was focu...
Misunderstanding about the disease probably exists because leprosy was incurable before the advent of effective antibiotic therapy in the 1940s. People with the disease would become disfigured and often have significant disability, causing them to be feared and shunned by others. Because of this ...
Plant Diseases in Kenya During 1940doi:10.1080/03670074.1941.11664139NattrassR. M.Taylor & FrancisEast African Agricultural Journal
in the 1940s, Malaria continues to kill millions in Africa each year. Malaria is both preventable and treatable. To help fight the spread of Malaria, Mosquito Squad is a proud supporter of Malaria No More, a nonprofit that envisions a world where no one dies from a mosquito bite. ...
did a great deal of work in the struggle against venereal diseases. The Russian Society of Syphilologists (organized in 1885; the first in Europe), the Pirogov congresses, and the All-Russian Conference on the Discussion of Measures Against Syphilis (convoked in 1897; the first in the world...
An initial resource set of 1028 ICD-10-AM diagnostic codes was used to identify a cohort of Tasmanians with rare diseases in Tasmanian Health datasets (1 January 2007 until 31 December 2020). Validating the resource set using a small group with known rare diseases revealed limitations in ...