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Doctors routinely work when infected with influenza, infecting patients - NaturalNews.com - 0 views

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English influenza doctors Challenge1 diseases prevention flu HSA

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  • he research, led by Dr. Anupam Jena, a senior resident at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, found that half of 150 Illinois resident physicians said they had gone to work sick over the previous year. One in six reported to work three or more times, the survey found.
  • "They're less productive and more likely to make errors," Jena said. "And they can transmit the disease to somebody else."
  • Only last year, for instance, a doctor who came to work sick was responsible for launching a small outbreak of norovirus at Massachusetts General,
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  • "The main question is whether those policies are being enforced," Jena told Reuters Health.
  • Anyone who has ever been to med school or around a med school knows that physicians in training are more often than not treated like rented mules.
  • When residents fall sick, there are a large group of residents that can fill in," said Jena. "When you are in private practice and you become sick, you don't have a pool of physicians that you can draw on to cover for you."
  • n which 57 percent of residents said they had worked while sick," said the report.
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  • Arsenic, a known carcinogen and endocrine disruptor,
  • ommonly found contaminating water supplies across the world
  • ater to a maximum of 10 ppb,
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  • weak initial response to infection with the H1N1 flu strain.
  • "There was a massive infiltration of immune cells to the lungs and a massive inflammatory response, which led to bleeding and damage in the lung," Hamilton said.
  • esearchers exposed pregnant mice either to clean water or to water contaminated with 100 ppb of inorganic arsenic; after birth, the pups were given the same type of drinking water as their mothers. A week after birth, some of the pups were deliberately exposed to H3N1 influenza.
  • "This is a great study that advances the field,"
  • "We would like to combine arsenic exposure with repeated bacterial and viral infections to model the development of bronchiectasis throughout life," researcher Kathryn Ramsey said.
  • arsenic plays so much havoc with the immune system is its large-scale disruption of numerous hormone pathways.
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