"Your Honor, just to be clear, he won't mention AIDS, malaria or tuberculosis, " Mr. Brodsky said.
But unlike the case with malaria or tuberculosis, AIDS drugs need to be provided over the patient's lifetime.
Some common side effects, like nausea, dizziness or slight fatigue, are manageable--especially if the end result is pneumonia or tuberculosis, diseases that were once deadly but now can be treated with antibiotics.
The idea is that some day soon, doctors will be able to automatically alert their public health department and the CDC when they diagnose a patient with a communicable disease of concern, such as whooping cough or tuberculosis.
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HIV, malaria or tuberculosis may be able to sell to poor countries more or less at cost, because they can make up their profit margins by charging more to travellers or to rich-country consumers who are at risk at home.
In an accompanying editorial Christopher Dye, of the World Health Organization (WHO), and Paul Fine, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said although the results were disappointing they were "not a terminal prognosis for MVA85A, or for any of the other tuberculosis vaccines in development".
Until now, there have been no credible nationwide data on how widespread drug-resistant tuberculosis is in India, or how rapidly it is spreading.
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In diseases for which there is no private vaccine market, such as pandemic influenza, or for which cases are concentrated in poor countries, such as malaria and tuberculosis, governments and public-private partnerships have stepped in to subsidize development.
The three researchers organised children whose social circumstances were similar into groups, depending on whether or not the children had been vaccinated against a range of diseases including measles, polio and tuberculosis.
And yet, unlike AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria that require drugs for treatment, many of these chronic diseases can be treated or even reversed if people simply make big enough changes in diet and lifestyle.
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