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Appendix D: Emerging Infections, Nutritional Status, and Immunity
Appendix D: Emerging Infections, Nutritional Status, and Immunity
Pages 543-552
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Like other emerging infections, AIDS was unknown to humans prior to the early 1980s. At that time, the major causes of death among men aged 25 to 44 years, a prime age group, did not include infectious disease death.
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They typically involve land-use changes or people interposing themselves into formerly sequestered natural environments. The result is increased human contact with a natural host.
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Diphtheria, for example, is now making a massive reappearance in the former Soviet Union. Reemerging diseases are usually an indication of a breakdown in public health measures, such as sanitation, immunization, and all of the nineteenth-century control measures that were so effective in reducing infectious diseases in the past.
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As rice planting increases throughout Asia, the incidence of Korean hemorrhagic fever in Korea and China also increases, probably 100,000 to 200,000 cases occur per year. This particular rodent consumes rice in the fields prior to harvest.
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Finally, relatively little is known about the many factors affecting resistance to viral infection in humans. The macrophage is an important target for many of the infections that might be classified as emerging, including HIV and many of those causing hemorrhagic fevers.
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Attention to cytokines is an important research task. Certainly, military troops deployed in distant, hazardous locations and experiencing a diverse variety of stresses will always face these potential problems of emerging infections.
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I went through all of his quoted papers, and antagonism was about 50/50 in virus diseases with synergism. Microbiologists cannot grow viruses unless their cultured cells have a beautifully balanced nutritional status.
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The World Health Organization, for example, is beginning to formulate effective plans for global surveillance, but it is going to take years to do that. JOHN VANDERVEEN: One of the comments we are hearing occasionally now not only that we are concerned about public health being a major cause for disease spread, but also there is some suggestion that perhaps we made some of our environment too clean, in that we are ridding ourselves of beneficial organisms that may cut down on the possibility of the spread of more harmful organisms.
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APPENDIX D 551 result was that that rodent, which was best adapted to that environment, outcompeted the others who were holding it in check. It is interesting that we know relatively little about beneficial effects and about what maintains these balances in nature at the detailed level of being able to model and predict them.
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