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Measles Vaccine Rash: What It Is, Causes, Symptoms & Treatments

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fever temperature adults :: Article Creator How To Treat A Viral Fever At Home Unlike bacteria, viruses do not respond to antibiotics. In most cases, viral illnesses simply have to run their course. Staying hydrated or using over-the-counter fever-reducing medications can help until the virus resolves. A viral fever is any fever that happens as a result of a viral infection. Viruses are tiny germs that spread easily from person to person. When you contract a viral condition, such as a cold or flu, your immune system responds by going into overdrive. Part of this response often involves raising your body's temperature to make it less hospitable to the virus and other germs. Most people's usual body temperature is around 98.6°F (37°C). Anything 1 degree Celsius or more above this is considered a fever. Depending on the type of infection causing it, a fever can last anywhere from a couple of days to a week or longer. While the v

Why vaccination is important and the safest way to protect yourself

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flu plague of 1918 :: Article Creator 1918 Virus Used To Develop Promising Universal Flu Vaccine This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. From The Black Death To Spanish Flu And Smallpox, A Brief History Of Plagues No matter where you look up the meaning of the word "plague", it's never a good thing. It can be confusing, because as a verb, plague means "to cause continual distress", yet as a noun, it means a deadly disease that spreads very quickly – what we would today call a "pandemic". It can also refer to one specific disease, Yersinia pestis.  On top of that, a plague can refer to a large number of insects or animals in one place that are causing a lot of damage, like the l

MMR Vaccine (Measles-Mumps-Rubella): What You Should Know

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black plague deaths worldwide :: Article Creator Colorado Plague Case Is A Reminder That The 'Black Death' Never Really Went Away July 10, 2024 6:00 AM EDT The plague sounds like something out of a history book. But the disease—nicknamed the "Black Death" or "Great Pestilence"—that killed more than 25 million people, about a third of Europe, in medieval times is very much still with us today. Colorado officials confirmed Tuesday a human case of the plague was detected in Pueblo County. It comes after another human case in Oregon in February. Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which is often transmitted by fleas and passed through small animals like rodents or cats, the plague has been responsible for more than 200 million deaths throughout history, dating as far back as 3,800 years ago, according to an article published in the American Journal of Medicine. While the bulk of its casualties came during thr

Protecting your child against measles, mumps and rubella

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pandemic 1918 spanish flu :: Article Creator Inside The Swift, Deadly History Of The Spanish Flu Pandemic Scientist Johan Hultin traveled to Brevig Mission, Alaska, a town of a few hundred souls in the summer of 1997. He was searching for buried bodies, and Alaska's frozen ground was the perfect place to find them. Digging through the permafrost—with permission from the town's authorities—he eventually uncovered a woman who died almost 80 years previously and was in a state of excellent preservation. Hultin then extracted samples of the woman's lung before reinterring her. He intended to use this to decode the genetic sequence of the virus that had killed this Inuit woman along with 90 percent of the town's population. Brevig Mission was just one place that was part of a global tragedy, one of the worst ever to befall humanity: the influenza pandemic of 1918-19. The outbreak of this influenza virus, also known as Spanish flu, spr

Achievements in Public Health, 1900-1999: Control of Infectious Diseases

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Measles Vaccine Rash: What It Is, Causes, Symptoms & Treatments

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most common neglected tropical diseases :: Article Creator Neglected Tropical Diseases Are Increasingly Common In Impoverished Areas Of U.S.: Sen. Booker Reintroduces A Bill To Help Eliminate Such Diseases Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is reintroducing a bill aimed at helping to eliminate neglected diseases ... [+] of poverty; the STOP (Study, Treat, Observe, and Prevent) Neglected Diseases of Poverty Act (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) Getty Images Last week, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) reintroduced legislation aimed at helping to eliminate what he calls "neglected diseases of poverty." If passed and enacted, The STOP (Study, Treat, Observe, and Prevent) Neglected Diseases of Poverty Act would facilitate research into diagnostics and treatments, and focus on improving disease surveillance systems and educational programs, as well as prevention, diagnosis, and treatment efforts targeting neglected diseases of poverty. Neglect