"It's very underutilized, " says Edward Chapnick, an infectious disease specialist at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn.
Kyle Petersen, an infectious disease specialist at National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) in Bethesda, Md.
Avian influenza "never became a man-to-man disease, " said Dr. Lo Wing-Luk, an infectious disease expert.
Murray's regular job was as an infectious disease specialist at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.
It was first spotted in 1826, but was not officially recognised as an infectious disease until 1894.
In fact, it's almost never an infectious disease, but the Tasmanian devil shows it can be an infectious disease.
Andrew Read, an infectious disease specialist and professor at Pennsylvania State University, raised a similar question about resistance in infectious disease.
Likewise, a person with an infectious disease, such as smallpox, threatens with serious physical harm those with whom he comes into proximity.
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The Mayo Clinic sees about 100 cases a year of young, healthy people who develop sepsis, says Dr. Priya Sampathkumar, an infectious disease specialist at Mayo.
Dr. Ruth Berggren, an infectious disease specialist at Charity Hospital, said the facility had electricity until back-up generators ran out of fuel Tuesday.
Dunwall is rotting from the bottom up from an infectious disease even as a corrupt cancer threatens to control it from the top.
"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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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.
"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.
But tests by Paul Scott, an infectious disease researcher, then at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, found that the water there was clean, according to Col.
People who have been thinking about getting a seasonal flu shot ought to act now, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
Although thermal scanners used in airports may detect travelers with symptoms, they are not effective since people exposed to an infectious disease could travel without any signs or symptoms and yet still be infectious.
Kyle Petersen, an infectious disease specialist at National Naval Medical Center, notes that aside from Vietnam, the other cases where Acinetobacter infection turned up include after the bombings in Bali and the earthquakes in Turkey.
That strain accounts for roughly 10 percent of infections so far this year, an infectious disease researcher from Vanderbilt University told CBS News, with overall Influenza B infections roughly doubling those of last season.
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That strain has accounted for roughly 10 percent of infections so far this year, an infectious disease researcher from Vanderbilt University told CBS News, with overall Influenza B infections roughly doubling those of last season.
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"Let's just make it real clear: Dead bodies in and of themselves -- while they are mental health issues and tragic -- they are not a public health issue from an infectious disease standpoint at all, " Guarisco said.
"If you read the Israeli literature, the Israelis are like, 'duh, '" says Andrew Shorr, an infectious disease specialist who recently left Walter Reed for Washington Hospital Center and says the Israelis have been dealing with the bacteria in battlefield situations for a long time.
Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis.
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.
While working as an infectious-disease doctor on the hospital ship U.S.N.
This year, the 36-year-old Academy Award winner played the title role in the TV miniseries "Mildred Pierce" and an infectious-disease expert in the film "Contagion" (where again, she appeared a little under the weather).
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Today, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, an association of 8, 000 infectious-disease specialists, is announcing a hit list of the six most worrisome germs doctors now face in clinical practice.
Doctors would be able to use the data to gain a head start in treating and isolating outbreaks of infectious disease - an area where speed is crucial if death rates are to be minimised.
The 13 cases, many of them linked to one Saudi hospital, suggest that the spread of this coronavirus may have reached a dangerous new stage in which it is spreading from one human to another, rather than infecting humans from another source such as an infected animal, according to infectious-disease experts.
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