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You’ve heard this before, but it bears repeating: Make sure your vaccinations are up to date. Flu:It’s not too late to get a shot, for anyone over 6 months of age. Exceptions: Avoid the shot if you’ve had severe allergic reactions to a past flu vaccine or to vaccine ingredients...
ForWorld AIDS Daythis, the theme is ‘remember and commit.’ In order to commemorate those who have lost their lives to this deleterious disease, we dedicate this piece to understanding how the virus works and its impact on the body’s immune system. To fully understand the effects of the ...
Among the things that cross-disciplinary research consortia do is to produce a scientific consensus and purvey it for a period of time through mass media in order to serve the varied (and often conflicting) demands and interests of other institutions and the general public around a particular iss...
This bacterium is associated with wound and soft tissue infections that can lead to sepsis, endocarditis, meningitis, and peritonitis. In addition, this bacterium has been increasingly implicated as an opportunistic pathogen to humans during pregnancies, hospitalizations, malignancies and chemotherapy, ...
“but we don’t know why some people get sick and some people don’t. We don’t know why some people get very sick and some don’t. A lot of the questions that have plagued dengue researchers are the exact questions that have been so problematic to vaccine developers.” There’s not...
There is no cure for genital warts. The goal of treatment is to remove visible warts and decrease the risk of spreading the virus. There are many different treatments that your doctor may recommend, none of which are 100% effective. Most treatment types will get rid of the warts in 60–...
Increased susceptibility to serious infections such as pneumonia (infection of the lungs), meningitis (infection of the brain), tuberculosis, fungal infection. Symptoms of other disease would be more severe in HIV patients than normal patients because of the weakened immune system. How is HIV diagno...
Cell types are strongly influenced by their microenvironment, says Roney Santos Coimbra, a neuroscientist and molecular biologist at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. To study bacterial meningitis and Zika virus, he works with brain tissue slices such as from young rat...
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