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Though TB research receives a mere 1/6th the funding of HIV research, the disease has killed more people in the last 200 years than any other infectious disease. According to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, an estimated 9 million people were infected with TB in the year 2013 alone. That same year 1.5 million people died from TB.
Dec 12, 2022 · Despite its central role in the COVID pandemic, the infectious diseases specialty saw 44% of its training programs for doctors go unfilled. Boy_Anupong/Getty Images. Thousands of doctors ready to ...
Sporadic disease. In infectious disease epidemiology, a sporadic disease is an infectious disease which occurs only infrequently, haphazardly, irregularly, or occasionally, from time to time in a few isolated places, with no discernible temporal or spatial pattern, as opposed to a recognizable epidemic outbreak or endemic pattern.
Infectious Disease Medicine. The principles and practice of Infectious Disease Medicine are a late-coming sub-specialty of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics. Traditionally, medical and surgical sub-specialties have been defined by anatomy and pathology in the classification of disease. Infectious Diseases were the clinical subset of Medical ...
A blood-borne disease is a disease that can be spread through contamination by blood and other body fluids. Blood can contain pathogens of various types, chief among which are microorganisms, like bacteria and parasites, and non-living infectious agents such as viruses. Three blood-borne pathogens in particular, all viruses, are cited as of ...
Jan 29, 2024 · infectious disease (plural infectious diseases) ( medicine) An illness caused by a specific infectious agent ( bacterium, virus, fungus, protozoa, prion etc.), that results from transmission of that agent from an infected person, animal, or reservoir to a susceptible host . Synonyms: transmissible disease, communicable disease.