"First off,there is the infectious disease risk because if you use human blood there's a lot of transmissible diseases.

VOA: special.2009.08.03

Failing to report an injury like this,can be dangerous if a patient,or a medical worker, has an infectious disease.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

One of the museum's displays tells the story about when the president had a mild case of the infectious disease small pox.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

The first involves sheep. Researchers have found that hair sheep are a good source of blood for use in tests to diagnose infectious diseases in people.

VOA: special.2009.08.03

A high burden of infectious diseases. Lack of provision of family planning allowing a women to decide when to start and end having children and how to space her children.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

"In simple terms, things such as type two diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases of a variety of types, and lung diseases and so on, are all found at higher than the comparison rates within the country, in many of these countries with indigenous populations."

VOA: special.2009.07.20

The passion of these transplanted soccer fans is infectious, and it's making Americans feel more a part of this global game.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Other infectious disease experts,however, have insisted Australia's is over-reacting to the outbreak of the A-H1N1 virus, insisting that,so far, the disease is no worse than other strains of influenza that kill hundreds of Australians every year during the colder winter months.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30