Over his career, he's been very concerned about the civil liberties of patients with HIV and other infectious diseases.
Organisations like Google.org will scour search patterns around the world, expanding their search-based predictions of influenza to other infectious diseases.
The leading industrialized nations, the G-7, are putting together a multibillion-dollar fund to fight aids and other infectious diseases that are endemic in Africa.
Making sure clean water is available will perhaps the most important factor in preventing the spread of diseases like typhoid, cholera, and other infectious diseases.
We have known from the very beginning of the HIV epidemic that sharing needles and other drug-related paraphernalia is associated with transmission of HIV and other infectious diseases including hepatitis B and C.
This technique could potentially be used to deliver vaccines against other infectious diseases such as those administered in childhood, and also vaccines to manage chronic inflammatory and autoimmune conditions such as type-1 diabetes or vaccines to control certain allergies.
Although the technique has so far only been demonstrated for the flu and in the social milieu of a university, the researchers nevertheless think that it could help predict other infectious diseases and do so on a larger scale, such as in cities and across regions.
Two hundred scientists will study infectious diseases and other global health issues at the centre.
Other agencies, such as the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), understand the desperate need for new antibiotics.
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Paleontological evidence shows that, compared with hunter-gatherers, early farmers had more anemia and vitamin deficiencies, died younger, had worse teeth, were more prone to spinal deformity, and caught more infectious diseases, as a result of living close to other humans and to livestock.
Epidemiology has a long list of accomplishments, including most famously identification of the association of smoking with risk of lung cancer, but also encompassing the identification of many other exposures, medications, and infectious agents as risk factors or protective factors for specific diseases.
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According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Latinos progress more quickly to AIDS after an HIV diagnosis than any other U.S. racial or ethnic group.
Unlike other major causes of preventable death and disability, such as tobacco use, injuries, and infectious diseases, there are no exemplar populations in which the obesity epidemic has been reversed by public health measures.
Fortunately, through the combined support of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other US Government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and others, progress in developing new technologies that prevent HIV infection has been notable.
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