Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
As of 2017, an estimated 35 million people have died of AIDS worldwide [source: WHO]. However, thanks to improved therapies and preventive measures, the number of deaths and new infections has declined steeply since peaking in 2005. Contents The Unusual Virus How HIV Is Transmitted The ...
Based on the previous findings, we would focus on investigating if peptic ulcer disease (PUD),a prevalent bowel illness mainly due to Helicobacter pylori infection worldwide17. The Helicobacter pylori infection is often acquired early in life and leads to intense cytokine-mediated infiltration of ...
Alcohol is quite a common substance of use for many people in the United States and worldwide. People have it when they are happy, sad, angry, excited, cheerful, depressed, stressed, and just about every other emotion. Some might even slip some alcohol in their morning and afternoon coffee...
In 1796, aphysiciannamed Edward Jenner decided to prove a theory that had been circulating for some time. Smallpox once killed millions of people worldwide. Cowpox was a less serious disease related to smallpox that milkmaids often caught through exposure to infected cows. Jenner noticed that mi...
Newborn BCG vaccination’s undefined small preventative effects for AD have additional uncertain applicability, accessibility, and acceptability among non-tuberculosis endemic areas. Patients concerned about developing AD should also be reassured that if it occurs, there are robust AD treatment guidelines ...
there were 5,327 cases and 349 deaths; and in Hong Kong, there were 1,755 cases and 299 deaths,according to the World Health Organization. One of the lessons of the SARS outbreak was that in the future, China needed to have more transparency between its provinces and its national governme...
The aetiological agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, remains well controlled in most of the 2 billion infected people worldwide, and disease develops in only a minority. Typically, disease develops years, or even decades, following initial infection, due an exogenous insult, intrinsic genetic ...
As of 2020, HIV/AIDS was the 19th leading cause of death worldwide.6 Even so, in some low-income countries where access to healthcare is poor, HIV remains among the most common causes of death, even above stroke, tuberculosis, malaria, and infant mortality.6 With a greater push ...
This review contains the novel approaches and innovations on how to control the Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS dual epidemics. AIDS kills more than 8000 people every day worldwide. More than 5000 people die from TB every day. HIV-positive people can easily be screened for TB; if they are infected...