rectal, axilla). A fever should not be diagnosed by touching and estimating the skin temperature or the feeling of being ‘feverish’. The body temperature varies by a maximum of 0.6 degrees Celsius (adults) and 0.5 degrees Celsius (children) in the course of a day – the lowest temperature...
[01:21.40]Over 12 million children in the U.S. are estimated [01:26.12]to have tested positive for the virus. [01:30.00]However, the virus does not seem [01:32.52]to be as dangerous for children as it is for ol...
Each year, some 8 million children in developing countries die before they reach their fifth birthday, and many die in the first year of life [1]. Eight in ten of these deaths are due to neonatal conditions, diarrhoea, acute respiratory infection, fevers alone or those associated with other...
Here, we examined healthy uninfected children living in an endemic area who had been under active surveillance for clinical malaria for 8 years and had experienced either high or low numbers of clinical episodes (relative to the population average). We took a multi-dimensional approach, comprisi...