At the same time, we are seeing increasing rates of diseases and conditions that tonsillectomies can prevent or cure, like infections, and even cancer, of the tonsils.
Thus it was important that GPs became fully versed in infections like malaria and typhoid which can prove fatal.
There are still question about doctors giving antibiotics to patients with viral infections like the common cold - antibiotics do nothing against viruses.
There are always more deaths in winter than other times of year, with causes such as respiratory and circulatory diseases, and infections like flu.
And although media reports usually mentions the new virus and SARS in the same breath it is worth pointing out that coronaviruses also produce infections like the common cold.
For 15 years, as a hospital doctor in the rural town of Tugela Ferry, in the heart of South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, he had watched locals with extinguished immune systems die from infections like tuberculosis, unable to give them medicine that worked.
"Sadly people with diabetes are at much greater risk of developing complications like foot ulcers, infections and nerve damage, " Diabetes UK clinical adviser Zoe Harrison said.
Also, while women can take the Pill to protect themselves against unplanned or unwanted pregnancies, disempowered women are still subject to sexual violence and to sexually transmitted infections, like HIV, from men unwilling to use condoms.
They are supporting the advance of scientific and pharmaceutical drug development to protect us against potential health threats, whether from bacterial infections or viral sources like influenza.
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Ms Bellamy said 60% of child deaths in Pakistan could be avoided by focusing on a limited number of treatable diseases like diarrhoea, pneumonia and neonatal infections.
Infections can be fairly mild, like a rash with blisters, or they can become severe abscesses requiring surgery and months of antibiotics to cure.
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The polymers can be used in just about any form of product from hydrogels and solutions to coatings for things like hospital equipment and even replacement joints (infections from contaminated hip, knee, and other joint replacements have been on the rise recently).
The Boston-based International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) recommends that any child who has such sudden OCD-like symptoms be tested for strep or other active infections.
Among Hispanic gay and bisexual men, most new infections occurred in the young age group, like blacks, but at much lower rates.
But over the past couple of decades, autophagy has also been shown to be involved in things as diverse as fighting bacterial infections and slowing the onset of neurological conditions like Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases.
Just like humans, airplane passengers of the four-legged variety must also contend with the risk of respiratory infections, dehydration and sleep deprivation.
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