Tuberculosis in New York City: focal transmission of an often fatal disease
Article Abstract:
A recent New York City tuberculosis outbreak sounds a warning. Nearly half of the young adults contracting the disease died, and transmission among hospital patients in four hospitals was responsible for most of the multidrug resistant cases of tuberculosis in New York City. Lack of prompt, effective treatment and inadequate infection control were the culprits. With HIV, rising immigration from high-prevalence countries, overcrowded prisons and homeless shelters, the rising number of mentally incompetent homeless, and the deterioration of tuberculosis control programs contributing to the epidemic potential, infection control and treatment must urgently be addressed.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1996
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Fatal degenerative neurologic illness in men who participated in wild game feasts -- Wisconsin, 2002
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An investigation into the cases of three men who participated in wild game feasts and died from a neurological illness does not support the idea that they contracted chronic wasting disease from the elk and deer they often ate. Chronic wasting disease is a neurological disease in elk and deer that resembles the human disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). However, it is still not clear whether people who eat infected elk and deer will develop CJD.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2003
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