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’shunter-gathererdays, but the shift to agrarian life 10,000 yea...
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 successful treatment of aortic diseases whether infectious, obstructive, hemorrhagic, or aneurysmal...
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...
- 《Journal of Infectious Diseases》 被引量: 15发表: 2017年 From Population Lending to HNP Results : The Evolution of the World Bank's Strategies in Health, Nutrition and Population This paper reviews the evolution of the World Bank's strategies in the health, nutrition, and population (HNP...
plants, and other vertebrates. More staggering than the number of viruses that have been identified is the range and severity of the infectious diseases that are caused by viruses including influenza, polio, rabies, yellow fever, measles, AIDS, and some forms of cancer, to name just a few. ...
Tropical medicine began to emerge in the 19th century, when physicians charged with the medical care of colonists and soldiers first encountered infectious diseases unknown in the temperate European climate. Several major advances in the control of tropical diseases occurred in the last quarter of the...
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Diphtheria, acute infectious disease caused by the bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae and characterized by a primary lesion, usually in the upper respiratory tract, and more generalized symptoms resulting in the spread of the bacterial toxin throughout
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. ...
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 ...