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Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at UC San Francisco, said people should be on the lookout for the "Big Four": three respiratory viruses currently moving through the U.S ...
Cases of measles, a highly contagious viral infection, rose across the world by 20 percent last year.. While measles infections are preventable with doses of the vaccine, the World Health ...
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding its infectious disease surveillance program at four major US airports to more than 30 pathogens, including flu, RSV and other ...
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Flu vaccines used during the flu in 2009. This is a list of vaccine-related topics.. A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease.A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe or its toxins.
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[1] [2] In operation since September 2006, and created by John Brownstein, PhD and Clark Freifeld, PhD, HealthMap acquires data from a variety of freely available electronic media sources (e.g. ProMED-mail, Eurosurveillance, Wildlife Disease Information Node) to obtain a comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases. [3] [4]
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