WHO's own figures suggest that infectious disease is becoming yesterday's problem.
"Although we believe there are still a few tuberculosis bacteria in his lungs, ongoing antibiotic therapy should kill those, " said Dr Gwen Huitt, director of the hospital's adult infectious disease care unit.
In fact, it's almost never an infectious disease, but the Tasmanian devil shows it can be an infectious disease.
But TB remains the leading cause of death by infectious disease in the country's adults.
Murray's regular job was as an infectious disease specialist at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.
"There's been a dearth of innovation around infectious disease, " said Kleiner Perkins partner Brook Byers.
The immune system's ability to fight off the body's invaders has long been recognized against infectious disease.
While working as an infectious-disease doctor on the hospital ship U.S.N.
Conducting research in the areas of cardiovascular disease, central nervous system disorders, immunology and infectious disease, oncology, respiratory diseases and women's health, its best-selling products are Vytorin, Zetia, Remicade and Nasonex.
The hot zone for exposure is generally two seats beside, in front of and behind you, according to a study in July in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"It's very underutilized, " says Edward Chapnick, an infectious disease specialist at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn.
Last year its president, Gary Patou, an infectious disease expert formerly at Glaxo, was checking Glaxo's Web site to look at the stock price.
"If you wanted to design a system not to use this vaccine, that's the system we have, " says Vanderbilt University infectious disease specialist William Schaffner.
Pfizer had hired Juan Walterspiel, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Yale Medical School, in 1994 for Trovan's pediatric clinical development.
"Once it gets you, it's a very serious infection, " said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
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"Once it gets you, it's a very serious infection, " said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
"What this study explores and similar studies are exploring is whether there are potentially infectious causes that result in prostate cancer going from a relatively dormant disease to one that's clinically significant, " says Albertsen.
Today such strains show up in the U.S., and current pneumococcal vaccines may not stop them, says Jacobs, now an infectious-disease specialist at Case Western Reserve University.
It's hard to argue with their aims and in some cases their means--the campaigns against infectious disease and infant deaths being particularly laudable--but so many times, much is spent and scant numbers are helped.
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