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• Controlling Infectious Diseases

  - 2006-06-01

  The 20th century was a triumph for human health and longevity. An Indian born in 1900 had a life expectancy of 22 years; an American baby born that year could expect to live about 49 years. By century's end life expectancy had soared to unprecedented levels even in many poor...

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• China reports 70,000 new HIV infections in 2005

  - 2006-05-21

  BEIJING -- International health organizations warn that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is spreading to Chinas general population, after another 70,000 people contracted the virus last year, bringing the country's total to 650,000. The figures were released in a joint statement by China's Health Ministry, the World Health Organization WHO and...

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• Tuberculosis among garment workers in an Arabian Developing Country: State of Qatar.(Brief Communication)(Author abstract)

  - 2005-11-01

  Tuberculosis TB continues to be a leading infectious cause of death worldwide, and it remains a serious public health problem in developing countries. To determine the prevalence of tuberculosis infection among garment workers, the authors conducted a retrospective prevalence survey of employees working in garment factories in Qatar from January...

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• Meridian Bioscience Announces Preliminary Operating Results for the Second Quarter, Reaffirms Guidance, and Comments on Recommended Destruction of Influenza A Samples

  - 2005-04-13

  CINCINNATI -- Meridian Bioscience, Inc., (NASDAQ:VIVO) today announced that, based on preliminary results, it expects to report net sales of approximately $23.5 million and diluted earnings per share of between $0.19 and $0.20 for the quarter ended March 31, 2005. For the same period of the previous fiscal year, sales...

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• TB INFECTION RATES RISING AMONG CHILDREN, DECLINING AMONG PRISONERS

  - 2005-03-27

  The World Health Organization WHO has published new data on rates of infection of tuberculosis, and the situation is starting to improve in most of the world except for Africa and the CIS countries, gazeta.ru reported on 24 March. In Eastern Europe, theThe World Health Organization WHO has published new...

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• RUSSIA: TB INFECTION RATES RISING AMONG CHILDREN, DECLINING AMONG PRISONERS.(Brief Article)

  - 2005-03-27

  The World Health Organization WHO has published new data on rates of infection of tuberculosis, and the situation is starting to improve in most of the world except for Africa and the CIS countries, gazeta.ru reported on 24 March. In Eastern Europe The World Health Organization...

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• Avian flu from an occupational health perspective.

  - 2005-03-01

  ABSTRACT. Although a pandemic scenario necessarily involves a situation in which a large number of people become infected in a nonoccupational setting, past infectious disease events have highlighted the unique role that occupational exposure may play in the emergence of disease in humans. While small-scale poultry...

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• WHO sends experts to Philippine city to help fight deadly bacterial outbreak

  - 2005-01-12

  MANILA AFP — The World Health Organization WHO said it will send a laboratory and epidemiology experts to the northern Philippine city of Baguio to help determine whether a bacterial outbreak which has killed 19 people is meningococcemia. Jean-Marc Olive, WHO's representative in the Philippines, said more extensive investigations...

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• The AIDS challenge.(Editorials)(US to spend money fighting AIDS, but Bush limits programs' effectiveness)

  - 2003-12-22

  This World AIDS Day we were greeted by new, more accurate data from the World Health Organization WHO confirming the astonishing scope of the global epidemic: Some 40 million are now infected, with 5 million new infections and 3 million deaths in 2003 alone. AIDS is the...

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• 'REMARKABLE RESULTS' MADE IN EFFORT TO ELIMINATE BLINDING TRACHOMA.

  - 2003-11-12

  (Full text of a statement. Contact details below.) NEW YORK, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- Pfizer commits to increase treatments from current eight million to 135 million over next five years, a 15-fold expansion In Morocco, 90 per cent Disease Reduction Among Children;...

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