Those people crowded together with poor water and sanitation risk pneumonia, water-borne diarrhoeal diseases, as well as infectious diseases such as malaria and measles.
Neglected tropical diseases* are primarily infectious diseases that thrive in impoverished settings, especially in the heat and humidity of tropical climates.
When penicillin was discovered, in 1929, it suggested that treatment of disease could be simple-an injection that could miraculously cure a breathtaking range of infectious diseases.
Why should we worry about intellectual property protection for infectious diseases and diseases of the poor?
We will build greater momentum to control malaria, TB and neglected infectious diseases.
Periodontitis is an infectious diseases and the key feature is bone resorption, but the exact mechanism of etiology is unclear.
"Instead of replacing the forest with cattle we are studying a cure for cancer and for infectious diseases, " said the botanist, sporting a goatie beard and a tattoo of Bob Marley on his bicep.
So you have to ask, what other infectious diseases are we missing?
Louis Pasteur's original discovery that diseases and microbes don't just appear spontaneously allowed the whole field of infectious diseases to develop.
The impact is now being felt in very poor countries, where we see morbidity from conditions such as hypertension and diabetes side-by-side with high mortality from infectious diseases.
They found consistent evidence that funding is skewed towards infectious diseases.
The IHR (1969) were primarily intended to monitor and control six serious infectious diseases: cholera, plague, yellow fever, smallpox, relapsing fever and typhus.
In this year alone, WHO has investigated nearly 400 rumours of acute threats to health, mostly from infectious diseases.
"Animal epidemic" referred to in this Law means animal infectious diseases and parasitic diseases.
Today, the Group of Eight vowed to improve the ways in which the world cooperates on surveillance for infectious diseases, including improving transparency by all countries in sharing information.
The recent emergence of infectious diseases appears to be driven by globalisation and ecological disruption.
Public and political awareness of emerging infectious diseases is growing, as animal and human health specialists work closer together to avert potential outbreaks.
Concerted action is needed at the EU and the national levels, because infectious diseases do not stop at borders.
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