Infectious Disease: A Deadly MIF

Nipah virus outbreaks in Bangladesh: a deadly infectious disease.

During 2001-2011, multidisciplinary teams from the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) and International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh(icddr,b) identified sporadic cases and 11 outbreaks of Nipah encephalitis. Three outbreaks were detected through sentinel surveillance; others were identified through event-based surveillance. A total of 196 cases...

Deadly comrades: war and infectious diseases.

Is Osteoarthritis a Deadly Disease?

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com earlier mortality risk [2]. Osteoarthritis, while not classified as an inflammatory arthritis, does have intermittent joint inflammation as a characteristic of the disease process [3]. In line with the evidence of early mortality risk and rheumatoid arthritis, OA of the hip or knee has also been convincingly associated with early mortality risk in d...

Is Osteoarthritis a Deadly Disease?

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com earlier mortality risk [2]. Osteoarthritis, while not classified as an inflammatory arthritis, does have intermittent joint inflammation as a characteristic of the disease process [3]. In line with the evidence of early mortality risk and rheumatoid arthritis, OA of the hip or knee has also been convincingly associated with early mortality risk in d...

White-Nose Syndrome: A Deadly Emerging Infectious Disease of Hibernating Bats

R.A. Adams and S.C. Pedersen (eds.), Bat Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-7397-8_20, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 Abstract In the winter of 2006–2007, thousands of dead bats were found at a single cave in New York. When mortality spread to nearby hibernacula in the winter of 2007–2008, this emerging infectious disease was dubbed “white-nose syndrom...