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Serving Communities on National Black HIV Awareness Day

Black Health Matters

These packages will include crucial items, such as hand towels to promote physical activity, hand sanitizer to fight the spread of communicable diseases, healthcare resource information, and at-home HIV test kits. The kits will allow recipients to learn their status in mere minutes.

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Salmonella by Any Other Name: Salmonellosis in Finland & How to Prevent the Next Outbreak

Gideon

2015: 122 cases in Finland due to an ice hockey team event in Latvia. Other risk factors for Salmonella poisoning are travel to high-risk countries with poor sanitation and exposure to birds and reptiles being kept as pets. 1986: 226 cases from packaged meals offered to train and air passengers. Data sourced from GIDEON.

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How to use ‘elimination’ and ‘eradication’ correctly in infectious disease reporting

Association of Health Care Journalists

Cholera was eliminated through clean water and sanitation. Two subtypes of polio have been eradicated: wild poliovirus type 2 in 2015 and wild poliovirus type 3 in 2019. Malaria was eliminated from the U.S.

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All You Need to Know About Waterborne Diseases

Gideon

The vast majority of them are contracted by individuals who lack access to safe and sanitized water for drinking and personal hygiene. billion people lack access to adequate sanitation facilities such as hygienic toilets. [1] World Development Indicators 2015. Washington, DC: World Bank Publications; 2015.

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Epidemiology Terms: A Glossary of Epidemiological Words

Gideon

In 2015, the global infant mortality rate was 31 deaths per 1,000 live births. Public health interventions such as immunization programs, improved nutrition, and access to clean water and sanitation can help lower infant mortality rates. This is near twice the rate in Canada (3.0) and almost three times the rate in Finland (2.3)

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All You Need to Know About Cholera

Gideon

Ongoing worldwide efforts to end the current cholera pandemic center on increasing access to clean water and sanitation and expanding accessibility to existing cholera vaccines. Available: 10.1128/microbiolspec.poh-0012-2015 (18) S. e0003832, 2015. Handa, “ What are the 7 pandemics of cholera “, Medscape.com, 2018.

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Kennedy sends mixed vaccine messages amid Texas measles outbreak

The Hill

since 2015. Kennedy also pointed out that 98 percent of measles deaths were eliminated before the introduction of the MMR vaccine due to improvements in sanitation and nutrition and emphasized that good nutrition remains a best defense against most chronic and infectious illnesses. It isnt used widely in the U.S.,