The article explains why the World Health Assembly, the governing body of the World Health Organization (WHO), has considered polio a global emergency when cases are at an all-time low. It reveals that the number of polio cases in the three remaining countries where the paralysis-causing ...
Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
many parents today haven't seen the effects of a widespread polio epidemic or a measles outbreak, diseases that still prevail in countries where vaccines are unaffordable. But what those parents may have seen, however, are reports that
For example, your immune system can detect cancer in early stages and eliminate it in many cases. Bacteria and Viruses Your body is a multi-cellular organism made up of perhaps 100 trillion cells. The cells in your body are fairly complicated machines. Each one has a nucleus, energy ...
But in many cases, public health experts want to go beyond controlling a disease and look at how it can be either eliminated or, in some cases when the biological, economic and environmental conditions suit, eradicated completely. As these goals get progressively more ambitious, so too does ...
in the early 1950s polio outbreaks caused more than 15,000 people to be paralyzed each year. The number began to dramatically fall during the end of the decade. There have been no cases of polio reported in the U.S. since 1979. And worldwide cases of polio have dro...
Guinea worm disease is one of two diseases targeted for eradication, the other being polio. Since the late 1980s, the number of new cases per year has been... AAA Rahman,MV Karam,DH Molyneux,... - 《Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg》 被引量: 11发表: 2007年 加载更多研究...
In some cases, the services were deployed on existing infrastructure to great effect. For example, India quickly leveraged its digital public-health tools to produce a secure and user-friendly platform that coordinated logistics, administrators, patients, and technical support. But in many cases,...
Influenza virus can escape most antibodies with single mutations. However, rare antibodies broadly neutralize many viral strains. It is unclear how easily influenza virus might escape such antibodies if there was strong pressure to do so. Here, we map al
crisis on its hands: measles. The country recorded more than 21,800 cases in 2018, up from 4,585 the previous year. The year 2019 has been even worse: through Oct. 19, the health department had tallied 42,612 reported cases and 566 deaths, many of them children under 9 months of ...