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Reducing Epidemic Proportions

Hospitals are supposed to be havens for healing, but the numbers tell a different story. Too many people are infected by illnesses they acquire after they’ve been admitted, and hospital-related infections continue to be the number-two killer of hospitalized Americans after heart disease.

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High-risk behaviors could lead to HIV epidemic in Afghanistan

In a report that is among the first to describe the prevalence of HIV and Hepatitis B and C viruses in Afghanistan, a researcher from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine voiced concerns that increasing injection drug use and accompanying high-risk behavior could lead to an HIV epidemic in Afghanistan.

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New Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Cases Appearing In South Africa

Medical ethics and other experts say tough isolation measures, involuntary if need be, are justified to contain very deadly, highly-contagious and drug-resistant mutant strains of tuberculosis and to prevent "a potentially explosive international health crisis" brewing most dangerously in South Africa.

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