such as electricity, the germ theory, the improved understanding of the cardiovascular system and circulation, along with anesthetics, the past 150 years has seen a progressive change in the diagnosis and succe
In the realm of infectious diseases, a pandemic is the worst case scenario. When an epidemic spreads beyond a country’s borders, that’s when the disease officially becomes a pandemic. Communicable diseases existed during humankind’s hunter-gatherer days, but the shift to agrarian life 10,000...
State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310003, China...
The wholesome and varied diet, the relatively short working week, and the rarity of infectious diseases have led many experts to define pre-agricultural forager societies as ‘the original affluent societies’. It would be a mistake, however, to idealise the lives of these ancients. Though they...
Given the profound recent interest in therapeutic manipulation of cytotoxic T cell responses, it is an opportune time to look back on the early history of the field. This Timeline describes how the early findings occurred and eventually led to current therapeutic applications. This is a preview ...
The clinical center at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, is dedicated to the research and treatment of children’s immune system disorders and infectious diseases. The Bristol Myers Squibb Pediatric Infectious Disease...
Timeline: key milestone in cell cultures. Advertisement 2. Live under the microscope The development of biological sciences would not have been possible without one of the greatest inventions—microscopes. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—two countries—the Netherlands and Italy played a cru...
Handbook of Fruit Culture. Thomas Gregg. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) announces theory that bacteria and germs cause infectious diseases. Wirt, Elizabeth Washington Wirt (1784-1857) Flora's Dictionary. 1858Jane Loudon (1807-1858). Writer, artist, gardener; wife and collaborator with John Loudon. ...
of disease, and people lacking a modern understanding ofinfectious diseasecame to believe that those who became vampires preyed first upon their own families. Research from the 20th and 21st centuries has posited that characteristics associated with vampires can be traced back to certain diseases ...
Pan·dem·ic /panˈdemik/ (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world. As humans have spread across the world, so have infectious diseases. Even in this modern era, outbreaks are nearly constant, though not every outbreak reaches pandemic level as COVID-19 has. ...