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Tag: "endemic" at medical news

Artesunate Is Better For Malaria Than Quinine

...esunate should be made widely available in malaria endemic areas as a matter of urgency. Source: Newswise, The Lancet...

Brain Fever or Encephalitis Spreading in North India

...lex tritaeniorhynchus), the primary vector. In the endemic areas, only 2 to 3 % of mosquito’s carry the virus. With 50,000 cases reported annually and 10-15,000 deaths, it is the most common and the most severe form of viral encephalitis. The infection is generally asymptomatic. Only 1 infection in 25 to 1...

Oral Sex may carry AIDS related Cancer Virus

...-an apparently "ancient virus"--may have long been endemic among homosexual men without being noticed. In the US, they note, KSHV-infected people without HIV rarely develop Kaposi's sarcoma.Osmond pointed out that the cancer has seen a recent decline in the US HIV-positive population. Some, he said, have sug...

Scientists Unveil Mechanism Behind Resistance to Severe Malaria

...oglobin gene to protect the people from malaria in endemic regions. Hemoglobin exists in several varieties. Hemoglobin A is the most common, but in parts of West Africa, where malaria is rife, one-fourth of the population has at least one gene for hemoglobin C. Children with at least one hemoglobin C gene ar...

Eliminating Eye Infection With Antibiotics

...for everyone in a community where the infection is endemic to be treated with an oral dose of azithromycin. Researchers treated nearly 98 percent of the people living in the community with the medication or, if they could not tolerate the drug, with a tetracycline eye ointment. Researchers measured results o...

Eliminating Eye Infection With Antibiotics

...for everyone in a community where the infection is endemic to be treated with an oral dose of azithromycin. Researchers treated nearly 98 percent of the people living in the community with the medication or, if they could not tolerate the drug, with a tetracycline eye ointment. Researchers measured results o...

Scientists crack dengue fever puzzle

... Dengue is a debilitating, sometimes fatal illness endemic to much of the tropics. Caused by a virus, it is characterized by high fever, bone and muscle pain and -- in the most serious cases -- hemorrhage and fatal shock. Dengue is also unusual in that //symptoms are more severe during a second or third inf...

India takes on foot-and-mouth disease by vaccinating animals

...g FMD vaccine since 1972. "FMD is prevalent in an endemic form in India. But it is wrong to say thedisease spread from here," he says. India produces 25 million doses of the FMD vaccine annually, of which IVRIproduces 4 million doses. The rest is manufactured by two companies in theprivate sector, Indian I...

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