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saraeberhardt

Donald R. Hopkins - How to Eradicate Guinea Worm Disease - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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vaccination guinea worm disease eradication

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  • The strategy worked so well, Dr. Hopkins said, that Sierra Leone was smallpox-free in less than two years.
  • When programs are well run, he said, progress can be rapid; Ghana went from 501 cases to none in 18 months.
  • saraeberhardt on 23 Apr 13
     
    A positive article about the eradication of Guinea Worm Disease. Yet another source showing that vaccinations really do work. 
saraeberhardt

Donald R. Hopkins - How to Eradicate Guinea Worm Disease - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...icate-guinea-worm-disease.html

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  • is actually one of the last Guinea worms on earth.
    • saraeberhardt
      saraeberhardt on 23 Apr 13
       
      This is exciting!
  • Instead of trying to vaccinate the whole country, teams would race to new outbreaks, vaccinating around each in widening circles until it died out.
Jeremiah Williamson

Ending pandemics: How close are we? - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Jeremiah Williamson on 19 Apr 13
     
    Pandemics have spread throughout the world since man has walked the Earth. If we can stop a pandemic before it even starts that could be a huge breakthrough. With early detection easier than ever, this possible. With smallpox already eradicated and polio and guinea worm on its way, we have taken big steps to fight pandemics. In the next few years who knows what other major viruses we could eradicate.
Amanda Bergstedt

Nematode worm infection fights obesity, related metabolic disorders - 1 views

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  • Amanda Bergstedt on 26 Apr 13
     
    Many studies are currently being done on the mutualistic affects of nematodes on humans. This study could potentially help the vast obesity epidemic.
loryn_micro

Worms' adaptation a critical problem - 0 views

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  • loryn_micro on 23 Apr 13
     
    Resistance not limited to antibiotics, we are seeing this more and more in the veterinary world with anthemintics and insecticides.
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