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Officials at the Guangdong CDC, while confident that culling the civets was necessary, are not totally convinced that it will curtail an outbreak. They have ordered a further extermination of rats--a much more elusive target--because of evidence that they carry a similar virus. Dr. Rob Breiman, an epidemiologist from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is leading the WHO team currently tracing the origins of last year's epidemic in Guangdong. Breiman observes, "Everyone certainly thinks this is meaningful. But where is the civet cat in the chain? Are they getting it from another animal...
...Officials at the Guangdong CDC, while confident that culling the civets was necessary, are not totally convinced that this will curtail an outbreak. They have ordered a further extermination of rats?a much more elusive target?because of evidence that they carry a similar virus. Dr. Rob Breiman, an epidemiologist from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who is leading the WHO team currently tracing the origins of last year's epidemic in Guangdong, observes, "Everyone certainly thinks this is meaningful. But where is the civet cat in the chain? Are they getting it from another animal...
Ugandan society has been better-equipped to stave off the AIDS epidemic than many other countries, a Cambridge University epidemiologist told an audience at the School of Public Health (SPH) last night...
...have an 80% higher risk of breast cancer than a woman who has three or four drinks over the course of a week. "It could be that the higher alcohol load at one time taxes the body's ability to handle alcohol's potentially toxic effects," says Buffalo epidemiologist Jo Freudenheim...
...will mean a dramatic drop in patients coming to their hospital," says Michael Tai, head of the department of social medicine at the Chungshan Medical University in Tai-chung, "and that means they will lose money." Still, "other hospitals won't dare to buck the system now," says epidemiologist Ho Mei-shang, who has been tasked by the President to bring hospitals into line. "They are getting the message...