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Can we eliminate measles and rubella worldwide?
“It’s essential to be hitting kids who haven’t already had a routine vaccine.”
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Asymptomatic infections drive many epidemics, including monkeypox, polio, and COVID
“I think 80% of [COVID] transmissions are done by 20% of infected people because those are the ones who are shedding the most virus.”
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Climate change can worsen more than half of infectious diseases
Warming and increased precipitation broadened the range of many pathogens.
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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria emerging in community settings
“What’s striking about these data is that: ‘Who is the front line, at least in the United States for CRE?’ It’s women, older women.”
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Rabies: CDC updates and simplifies preexposure prophylaxis vaccination recommendations
“I hope more people will take advantage of the titer checks and potentially save the patient some money.”
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Experts decry CDC’s long pause on neglected tropical disease testing
The loss of testing for two devastating parasites – Chagas and Leishmania – was particularly significant.
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On the receiving end of care
Hospitals could do so much better by improving communications with patients and by viewing them as customers whose loyalty they must earn and will...
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C. difficile vaccine: Pfizer’s phase 3 CLOVER trial shows mixed results
“I am impressed, from the limited data that have been made available, that the vaccine appears to have efficacy of around 50% for reducing CDI.”...
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Mosquito nets do prevent malaria, longitudinal study confirms
The more time children slept under bed nets, the less likely they were to acquire malaria, and protective efficacy persisted into adulthood.
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Wilderness Medical Society issues clinical guidelines for tick-borne illness
The guidelines focus on resource-limited settings.