…received FND diagnoses. In the SNSS, headache, at 19%, was the most common presentation. However, only 209 out of 3781 study subjects, or 5.5%, received diagnoses that could be categorized…
Poliovirus is the etiologic agent of the paralytic disease known as poliomyelitis. It’s also the virus I’ve worked on for most of my career. The World Health Organization is in…
…serious (fever, severe headache, back and limb pain, rash). The problem arises when a person is infected a second time, when a fatal disease, called dengue shock syndrome, may occur….
…of rare, slow diseases now includes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Gerstmann-Straussler syndrome in humans, as well as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cow disease) and scrapie in sheep and goats. These…
…East African dialect describing the contorted posture of patients with the severe joint pain characteristic of this disease. Enserink, M. (2007). INFECTIOUS DISEASES: Chikungunya: No Longer a Third World Disease…
…two monkeys with a 3-3 neurovirulence score, and others did not. Nevertheless, the rate of vaccine-associated paralytic disease remained remarkably constant over this time: 5-10 cases per year. There were…
