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Why Is It So Hard to Cure the Common Cold? George Zaidan In 2000, a company called ViroPharma ran clinical trials of pleconaril, a new pill designed to treat the common cold. In many patients, the pill helped. But i...
Smallpox once killed 35% of its victims, and now it is the only disease considered eradicated worldwide. Many other diseases have been eliminated in the Americas, including polio, rubella, and hepatitis. The countless lives and money saved by eliminating these diseases far outweigh the small, ...
Like smallpox, it is a "disappeared disease". I had originally been drawn to obstetrics and gynecology because I loved delivering babies. Abortion was illegal when I trained, so I did not learn how to do abortions in my residency, although I had more than my share of experience looking ...
As aglobal health expert who specializes in infectious disease epidemiologyI do not think that most people need to be worried about monkeypox. Athough it may sound ominous, this decision by the WHO is not a sign of bad things to come. Rather, it is a way to prevent monkeypo...
Why is it called the Spring and Autumn Period? Why was Morocco colonized? Why did the scientific revolution occur? Why have cities formed in East Asia? Why was the Khilafat Movement started? Why did immigration from Mexico to the US increase towards the end of the 20th century?
” we will need to think about how and what the advantages are. The reason that doing we are doing this is to understand what helped this huge change in american and european history. Body: The spanish conquistadores brought diseases like smallpox over to the americas but a lot of the ...
It’s because Donald Rumsfeld, who had financial connections to Searle, got it pushed through the approval process even though it breaks down to methanol, and further breaks down into formaldehyde (carcinogenic and very toxic) and formic acid and something called DKP which is a a brain tumor ...
Larry Brilliant, an epidemiologist who helped to eradicate smallpox.“There’s a harm to it. When you are in a war, the only thing you do is the war. We have a lot of other things we do.” The power of war metaphors The primary reason officials use war metaphors is to convey ...
While myocarditis is relatively uncommon, it does happen to young people (and we mean long before the Covid-19 vaccine ever came along). Usually it’s caused by a viral or bacterial infection. A different vaccine, one against smallpox, has previously been linked to myocarditis. There’s ...