Infectious disease surveillance and monitoring

We're treating cancer almost like it's an infectious disease.

The toll of conflict and infectious disease continues to be devastating.

And they put me in an infectious disease ward at the hospital.

And the people who avoid that have 30 percent less infectious disease or something.

The definition of pathogenic germs indicates any micro organism able to cause infectious disease.

They also include poverty, deadly infectious disease and environmental degradation since these can have equally catastrophic consequences.

The proteins could be used to develop new drugs for the control of infectious diseases such as Chagas s disease.

Public Health Emergencies in Ontario has been strengthened through better coordination with a newly established Emergency Management Unit, the addition of specialized infectious disease experts to an on call rotation, development of better alert systems for practitioners, and the creation of a Provincial Infectious Disease Advisory Committee.

1984 International Centre for Global Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

Other nuclear techniques were used to study child malnutrition and fight infectious diseases and produce higher yielding, disease resistant crops.

The fight against infectious disease Thanks to years of planned immunisation of children, the incidence of a number of infectious diseases in Latvia has declined by 99 in comparison to the pre vaccination period.

Economic and social threats, including poverty, infectious disease and environmental degradation, as well as internal conflicts, continue to afflict the continent.

And research shows that they would be years largely free of chronic disease, heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

In late 1995, two young people were diagnosed with Creutzfeldt Jakob disease a rare disease typically seen in elderly patients. Post mortem examinations of their brains revealed deposits of prions the infectious agents that cause scrapie, kuru, and mad cow disease.

And when I went online and looked at the infectious read about the disease, I pretty much realized what was going on.

On a long journey, young Bobby takes out his box of crayons, chalks the marks of an infectious disease on his face

And so that's the basic thing doctors are trained to do, and it's miraculous in the case of infectious disease how well it works.

In fact, the infectious agent of disease in this cancer is something altogether more sinister, and something that we hadn't really thought of before.

I'm an infectious disease physician, and in the early days of HIV, before we had our medications, I presided over so many scenes like this.

The infectious prion then hijacks the body s machinery, reprogramming it into a willing executioner of prion replication. Since the disease s outbreak, it has been revealed that many common ailments including Alzheimer s disease and Parkinson s disease have similar properties.

Sixty operational research projects on various aspects of disease intervention programmes and health system research are currently implemented in 13 African countries.

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Infectious diseases

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The World Health Organization Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network has done an impressive job in monitoring and responding to outbreaks of deadly infectious disease, whether natural or suspicious.

Emerging Infectious Diseases

The United States currently spends 147 billion on obesity related health care annually. Previously, one could have argued that these were affluent countries diseases, but the United Nations announced last year that chronic metabolic disease (including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and dementia) is a bigger threat to the developing world than is infectious disease, including HIV.

Infectious diseases, incl. parasitological

Noting with concern the deleterious impact on humankind of HIV AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other major infectious diseases and epidemics, and the heavy disease burden borne by poor people, especially in developing countries,

We therefore welcome the Secretary General's proposals for infectious disease surveillance and monitoring, and we support his call for the adoption of the International Health Regulations by the World Health Assembly this May.

The report also contains sound recommendations on strengthening basic health systems, enhancing the overall international response to major infectious disease, and the establishment of a worldwide early warning system for all natural hazards.

The most common response is disease specific. The American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association, as well as the disease based research institutes of the National Institutes of Health, are notable examples.

It will enhance efforts to prevent chronic and infectious diseases and injuries, respond to public health emergencies and disease outbreaks, work to keep Canadians healthy and help reduce pressures on the health care system.

The expert concluded that the death of the camels was not caused by an infectious disease but by lead and sulphur poisoning that caused a drop in the immunity of the camels to infections.

The problem was compounded by the fact that garbage collection had stopped in some towns and that many hospital laundries had only cold water even infectious disease departments were using only water for cleaning.

The outbreak has so far remained regional, but it serves as a reminder that in an age of air travel by millions, no one is safe from the spread of infectious disease. Containing a disease or a terrorist threat by curtailing international travel or transport would devastate the world economy.

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Increased requirements are attributable to the recruitment of an infectious disease specialist, recommended by the subject matter expert team visiting the Mission, because of the increase in the number of cases deaths from Lassa fever.

Historically, chronic disease referred to conditions lasting over a long period. But, with the increasing organization of medicine around specific diseases, the term has come to refer to an open ended set of conditions including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes, but not infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis and malaria, or mental illness.

Yesterday, Amory Lovins spoke about infectious repititis.

Infectious Illnesses as the measles and leprosy

The problems in such countries are infectious.

6.10.1 Biological products known to contain, or thought likely to contain, any infectious substances should meet the requirements for infectious substances.

Bullying is a disease. Prejudice is a disease. Violence is a disease.