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pneumo :: Article Creator How Often Do You Need To Get A Pneumonia Shot? The pneumonia shot is a vaccine that helps protect you against pneumococcal disease, or diseases caused by bacteria known as Streptococcus pneumoniae. The vaccine can help protect you from pneumococcal disease for many years. One of the most common causes of pneumonia is infection of the lungs with the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae. These bacteria mainly affect your lungs and can cause sometimes life-threatening infections in other parts of your body, too, including the bloodstream (bacteremia), or brain and spine (meningitis). The pneumonia shot is especially recommended if you fall into one of these age groups: Younger than 2 years old: four shots (at 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, and then a booster between 12 and 15 months) 65 years old or older: two shots, which will last you the rest of your life Between 2 and 64 years old: between one and thr...

hiv pandemic deaths :: Article Creator HIV-positive And Pregnant Being HIV-positive doesn't affect fertility, and the many advances in HIV treatments make it safe to avoid transmisison if you have a child.. At the onset of the HIV and AIDS pandemic in the 1980s in Jamaica, being HIV-positive was considered a death sentence, and the truth is that a number of people died in the early years of the pandemic. Fear, anxiety, uncertainties, homophobia, stigma, and discrimination led the way as people at all levels of society went more into panic mode, rather than showed genuine care and support for the infected and affected. Indeed, with still much uncertainty about the treatment required and phobia relating to the idea that this was a homosexual or gay disease, in a context in which fear of homosexuality is like a pandemic by itself, those who were infected were condemned twice. That is, they were infected with a virus that would most certainly ...

98.6 fever :: Article Creator What Causes A Persistent Low-Grade Fever And How Is It Treated? We include products we think are useful for our readers. If you buy through links on this page, we may earn a small commission. Here's our process. Healthline only shows you brands and products that we stand behind. Our team thoroughly researches and evaluates the recommendations we make on our site. To establish that the product manufacturers addressed safety and efficacy standards, we: Evaluate ingredients and composition: Do they have the potential to cause harm? Fact-check all health claims: Do they align with the current body of scientific evidence? Assess the brand: Does it operate with integrity and adhere to industry best practices? We do the research so you can find trusted products for your health and wellness. Was this helpful? Long-lasting low-grade fevers can occur with viral or bacterial infections, st...

rickettsial :: Article Creator Emerging And Re-emerging Rickettsioses: Endothelial Cell Infection And Early Disease Events Walker, D. H. Rickettsiae and rickettsial infections: the current state of knowledge. Clin. Infect. Dis. 45 (Suppl. 1), 39–44 (2007). Article  Google Scholar  Yu, X. J. & Walker, D. H. In Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology 2nd edn Vol. 2 (eds Brenner, D. J., Kreig, N. R. & Staley, J. T.) 96–116 (Springer, New York, 2005). Book  Google Scholar  Azad, A. F. & Beard, C. B. Rickettsial pathogens and their arthropod vectors. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 4, 179–186 (1998). Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Gillespie, J. J. Et al. Plasmids and rickettsial evolution: insight from Rickettsia felis. PloS One 2, e266 (2007). Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Ricketts, H. T. The study of "Rocky...