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Dracunculiasis, commonly called Guinea worm disease (or "nyerfu" in this part of the world), is a parasite contracted by drinking contaminated water - in this case, water contaminated by victim of the disease. An emerged worm lays its eggs upon contact with water, and the eggs are then ingested by a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Takes a Village to Fight a Plague | 1/25/2008 | See Source »

The shingles vaccine has been available since 2006, but to date, only 2% of Americans 60 and over have been vaccinated against the disease, an extremely painful condition caused by the chickenpox virus that hits 1 million new patients a year - almost half of all unvaccinated adults who live to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Don't Adults Get Vaccinated? | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

Prostate cancer may not be at the top of your list of topics for dinner conversation with Dad. But you might reconsider: About 10% of prostate cancer cases are linked with family history, and evidence for the disease's genetic roots is growing. Researchers have recently identified a series of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genes Increase Prostate Cancer Risk | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

There was the drunken husband who got mouthy with his wife - she beat him with a frying pan, sending him stumbling and bleeding into the street, where one of Crider's platoons came upon him and stitched him up. Then there was the young man with a mental condition whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the War Stories Have Nothing to do With War | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

That is one reason why recent marches have come nowhere near the turnout of 2003's July 1 protest, when half a million demonstrators forced Beijing-backed legislators to scrap controversial anti-subversion legislation. Kathline Cheng, a 52-year-old employee of TMP, a greeting card supplier, stood amid the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong Democracy Still Postponed | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

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