Earlier in the day, Gov. Greg Abbott suspended elective surgeries in Cameron, Hidalgo, Nueces and Webb counties to ensure hospital bed availability for Covid-19 patients. There are now eight counties in Texas, including those housing the state's largest cities — Houston, San Antonio, Dallas ...
High prevalence of curable sexually transmitted infections among pregnant women in a rural county hospital in Kilifi, Kenya. PLoS ONE. 2017;12(3):e0175166. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar da Luz Becker D, dos Santos O, Frasson AP, de Vargas Rigo G, Macedo AJ, Tasca T. ...
Medical workers are seen at a hospital in Daegu, South Korea, March 1, 2020. Yonhap via REUTERS TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Sunday raised its infectious disease advisory levels for parts of South Korea and Italy, urging its citizens not to take trips to South K...
In the HEU population, infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, pneumonia and lower respiratory tract infection are more frequent and occasionally also more severe; for example, HEU infants with pneumonia have higher rates of treatment failure and in-hospital mortality. [17,18,19,20] The disease...
He observed that it does not mean that if a traveler's temperature is abnormal, then the person is an Ebola suspect, but it could be malaria or typhoid. He said such cases are referred to isolation site established at the Nimule teaching hospital for a thorough examination. ...
The role of theinfectious diseases unit at Groote Schuur Hospital in address-ing South Africa’’s greatest burden of disease. Pandie M,Van der Plas H,Maatens G,et al. South African Medical Journal . 2012The role of the infectious diseases unit at Groote Schuur Hospital in addressing South ...
All patients with confirmed HIV positive via reactive Western blot were referred to the hospital-based infectious disease clinic or county health department. We tested 7,616 patients out of 8,922 approached. The overall test acceptance rate was 85.4%. 91.0% of patients tested were African ...
Distance from home to the treatment centre was calculated indirectly based on hospital location and the district where the patients lived. The distance was classified into instances where the hospital and patient’s residence were within the same municipal level divisions (district, city, or county)...
But in South Carolina, hospital officials say it is the state that has moved too slowly to expand access to the vaccinations, leaving them with unused doses. The state recently did offer the vaccine to those 70 and older. Mississippi's Reeves said one of the biggest weaknesses in the state...
The symptoms became more severe and the patients were transferred from the town hospital to a county hospital. By 10.00 h on 27 October, 35 other patients exposed to the same food were identified. The outbreak was reported from hospital to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCs)...