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Data early on in the pandemic influenza outbreak suggested that most severely ill patients with Influenza A were not suffering from bacterial co-infection.
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At the recent 58th Annual Meeting of American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene held in Washington D.C., Dr. Patricia Conrad of the University of CaliforniaDavis School of Veterinary Medicine provided an excellent presentation during the Scientific Session on Protozoa entitled Tracking Toxoplasma gondii from Land to Sea.
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Kreider and Cohen studied more than 13,000 internationally adopted children ages 5 to 15 and more than 155,000 domestically adopted children ages 5 to 15; they then extrapolated findings from this sample to the entire U.S. population.
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Four adults with either probable or definite yellow fever (YF) vaccine-associated meningitis or meningoencephalitis were hospitalized, yielding an incidence of 9.9/100,000 vaccine doses (95% CI = 2.7-25.4/100,000).
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In this issue: Two oral medications for relapsing-remitting MS in phase III development; antihypertensives find new uses; Ginkgo biloba does not prevent cognitive decline in elderly; and FDA Actions.
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Haiti, with a 2007 population of 9.7 million, is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with 55% of households earning less than one $1 U.S. per day. Before the earthquake, 45% of the population lacked access to safe water and 83% lacked access to adequate sanitation.
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Screening for latent TB infection (LTBI) seems to have only gotten that much more complicated and, increasingly, infectious disease experts are being asked to interpret the newer tests results, especially in persons with inflammatory disorders or underlying immune suppression.