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Shen Hongbing is the current Director of Chinese CDC. [1]The CCDC administers a number of laboratories across China, including the biosafety level 2 facility at the Wuhan Center for Disease Control (sometimes confused with the nearby Wuhan Institute of Virology), [6] which received global media coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic for its research into SARS-like coronaviruses of bat origin.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to concepts related to infectious diseases in humans.. Infection – transmission, entry/invasion after evading/overcoming defense, establishment, and replication of disease-causing microscopic organisms (pathogens) inside a host organism, and the reaction of host tissues to them and to the toxins they produce.
The National Administration of Disease Control and Prevention (Chinese: 国家疾病预防控制局) is a deputy-ministerial-level agency under the National Health Commission of China. On May 13, 2021, the National Administration was officially listed at No. 14, Zhichun Road, Haidian District , Beijing .
China's large-scale adoption of zero-COVID had largely contained the first waves of infections of the disease. [ 273 ] [ 277 ] [ 278 ] When the waves of infections due to the Omicron variant followed, China was almost alone in pursuing the strategy of zero-Covid to combat the spread of the virus in 2022. [ 279 ]
Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.
Arsenic and its compounds, especially the trioxide, are used in the production of pesticides, treated wood products, herbicides, and insecticides. These applications are declining with the increasing recognition of the toxicity of arsenic and its compounds. [15] Arsenic has been known since ancient times to be poisonous to humans. [16]
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Unlike diseases such as smallpox and polio, there is no vaccine or drug therapy for guinea worm. [44] Eradication efforts have been based on making drinking water supplies safer (e.g. by provision of borehole wells, or through treating the water with larvicide), on containment of infection and on education for safe drinking water practices.