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Posts Tagged ‘epidemic’

Overcoming the A, B, and C’s of Meningitis

As a life-threatening condition that can evoke fear, Meningitis is becoming less of a threat because of advances by medical science. In fact, the dangers posed by Bacterial Meningitis to public health are being reduced one vaccine at a time.

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Nothing Romantic About Tuberculosis (TB)

For a disease cured more than 60 years ago, tuberculosis is still very much a scourge to humankind. While we may think of it as a disease of the past, it is still affecting a third of the world’s population and as a result still deserves focused research.

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Pretending Lyme Disease is Real

Lyme Disease is a condition that polarizes the medical community and patients because it is hard to diagnose and poorly understood in some respects. However this polarization is coming at the cost of patient well being, but this should not be the case given the sheer numbers potentially afflicted.

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