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Infectious Diseases in :60
Donald Thea calls it the culmination of his career. The chance to wipe out mother-to-child transmission of AIDS in the largest province in Zambia, and hopefully beyond.
The infectious disease physician and professor of international health has [...]just wrapped up an application for a $40 million follow-on grant to his current HIV-research efforts with the Centers for Disease Control. He has spent much of his career identifying factors that prevent the spread of the deadly disease.
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Igor Kramnik on the NEIDL's BSL-2 Research
Igor Kramnik, MD, PhD, talks about his vaccine research examining host resistance to bacteria.
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What Do We Know About the Distribution of HPV in the United States?
Susan C. Weller, a professor of sociomedical sciences and the director of research in the department of family medicine at the University of Texas, discusses the history, prevalence, and transmission of HPV infection in American women in the kickoff [...]to the 2007 William J. Bicknell Lectureship in Public Health, a two-day series on the HPV vaccine.
Hosted by Boston University School of Public Health on September 27, 2007.
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The HPV Vaccine: Is It Really a Public Health No-Brainer?
The 2007 William J. Bicknell Lectureship in Public Health presents a panel discussion with former president of Merck Vaccines Adel Mahmoud, the United Nation Population Fund's Yves Bergevin, women's health advocate Judy Norsigian, and Massachusetts [...]Representative Peter Koutoujian in day two of the series' look at the public health role of the HPV vaccine.
Hosted by Boston University School of Public Health on September 28, 2007.
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Should We Fear the Flu More Than EEE?
Why aren’t we as collectively freaked out about flu season as we were about EEE being detected in local mosquitoes? In this one-on-one conversation, John Connor, a virologist at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases [...]Laboratories (NEIDL), explains why sometimes our fears about diseases are misplaced.
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