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It is hard to try to put the genie back in the bottle once you have an epidemic. if you have measles, coronavirus, plus the flu, it's hard to fight that.
Found on CNN 14 hours ago
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The lesson we've learned is coronavirus infections are serious and one of the newest and biggest global health threats.
Found on CNN 26 days ago
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Measles is typically the first disease to return when there are interruptions in vaccinations because it is so highly contagious, so the fact that measles is now returning in some areas is an indication that our vaccine ecosystem is fragile and in some areas breaking down despite general gains.
Found on CNN 2 months ago
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Aedes aegypti tends to be a day biter, but once it’s inside houses, it could bite anytime.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
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While we were calling them neglected tropical diseases, the 'tropical' part is probably a misnomer, most of the world's neglected tropical diseases are in wealthy countries. It's the poor living among the wealthy.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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Poverty is seldom evenly distributed across the country. Poverty clusters in pockets. It clusters in northeastern Brazil, it clusters in northern Argentina, it clusters in southern Mexico, it clusters in southwestern China, well, it's the same thing in the USA. Poverty is clustered in the American South.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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So many of these neglected tropical diseases are not acute infections like ... the flu or common cold, many are chronic, debilitating conditions that mimic non-communicable diseases ... If somebody has epilepsy, they don't think of cysticercosis ... If a child tests poorly in school, the pediatrician or nurse practitioner won't think of toxocariasis.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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It looks like the global health movies you show to first-year Masters of Public Health students.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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There's been a gradual rise in the economies of all nations ... but it's leaving behind a bottom segment of society, and that bottom segment of society is who gets the neglected tropical diseases.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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Whenever you are dealing with an infectious disease issue you are often dealing with people in the marginalized portions of society, here in Texas, where we often find widespread tropical disease outbreaks, it is almost always the poor and the homeless who are affected.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
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