By Frank Bowden
ISBN-10: 1742232736
ISBN-13: 9781742232737
That includes 15 infectious diseases—eight bacteria, six viruses, and a parasite—and one pleasant fungus, this ebook explores major scientific topics and highlights the influence micro-organisms have on sleek lifestyles. Hilarious, informative, yet deeply relocating, it discusses each one sickness whereas weaving actual tales of sufferers and their households and the problems medical professionals face. Touching upon the swine flu, golden staph, SARS, hepatitis, and HIV, this account teaches an important classes approximately public wellbeing and fitness and the human adventure of illness.
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I was using my other hand to stabilise the skin around the tip of the soon to re-emerge suture when the resistance suddenly gave way and the needle shot out of the skin, through my glove and into my thumb. I didn’t say anything and hoped that the nurse hadn’t seen it happen. indd 49 27/04/11 2:11 PM Gone Viral: The germs that share our lives about looking competent in the eyes of the staff than worrying about the fact that I had just stuck myself with a needle that had been pushed through the skin and muscle of a patient in the late stages of HIV infection.
Had treated a group of homosexual men who had developed the symptoms of glandular fever but who tested negative for the agent that causes it – Epstein-Barr virus or EBV. The patients presented with fever and flu-like symptoms, sore throat and swollen lymph nodes in their neck and sometimes throughout their body. A rash was common. A diagnosis of sero-negative glandular fever had been made and the men’s serum had been stored at the hospital. Fairfield had been collecting and freezing serum for nearly 40 years.
Moving to the tropics when you are fit and well is hard enough because of the extreme humidity and heat, but it would be a nightmare for someone in his state. I know that there were hundreds of people like my old school acquaintance who would have been tempted to avail themselves of the euthanasia legislation prior to the advent of the new drugs. I also know that most of them are still alive today. I don’t want to overstate the potential for the emergence of new treatments as an argument against euthanasia, because the discovery of HAART was a once in a medical lifetime breakthrough.
Gone Viral: The Germs that Share Our Lives by Frank Bowden
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