What You Need to Know About Infectious Disease (2011) / Chapter Skim
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IV Prevention and Treatment
IV Prevention and Treatment
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of the modern pharmaceutical industry, biochemical approaches to preventing and treating disease have Vaccinated people produce antibodies that neutralize acquired a new level of prominence in the evolving a disease-causing virus or bacterium. They are much 34
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Used properly, Major pharmaceutical companies antibiotics can save lives. But have limited interest in dedicating growing antibiotic resistance is resources to the antibiotics curbing the effectiveness of these market because these shortdrugs.
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The Cures Acceleration Network provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Obama in March 2010, is designed to move research discoveries through to safe and effective therapies by awarding grants through the National Institutes of Health to biotech companies, universities, and patient advocacy groups. And nonprofit organizations dedicated to accelerating the 36
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• Stay alert to disease threats when traveling or The CDC and other federal visiting underdeveloped countries. Seek advice agencies, including the Food from a reliable source, such as the WHO or the and Drug Administration, the CDC, if you are going to areas of moderate-to-high U.S.
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Monitoring the entire food production disease outbreaks. Syndromic surveillance rests process can pinpoint hazards and control points on the idea that, following large-scale exposure to where contamination can be prevented, limited, infectious disease in an epidemic or bioterrorist or eliminated.
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promoting worldwide infectious disease surveillance are the WHO's revised International Health Regulations, which entered into force in 2007. International Cooperation These require WHO member states to report certain diseases and outbreaks that may represent public National borders offer trivial impediment health emergencies of international concern to the to infectious disease threats.
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Health Initiative, a worldwide movement to forge collaborations among physicians, veterinarians, Many factors influence whether poor nations can and other related disciplines, is an example of obtain affordable drugs of good quality. Most drug efforts to improve communication about human research and development is not geared toward and animal diseases.
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