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A pandemia de gripe de 1918-1919: um desafio à ciência médica no princípio do século XX

Ler História, 2018
The pneumonic influenza pandemic was, on a world scale, the deadliest of the entire 20th century. Between spring 1918 and April 1919, it raged in Portugal in three successive waves, with an irregular and unusual virulence, which were marked by an intense
Helena Rebelo-de-Andrade, David Felismino   +1 more
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Who can stay home with the flu? [PDF]

, 2009
As fears of a swine flu pandemic spread, President Obama and public health officials are urging Americans to stay home from work and keep their children home from school if they have flu symptoms.
Marilyn P. Watkins
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Healthcare Workers in Peril: Preparing to Protect Worker Health and Safety During Pandemic Influenza [PDF]

, 2009
[Excerpt] An influenza pandemic is projected to have a global impact requiring a sustained, large scale response from the healthcare community to provide care to sick patients. Healthcare workers will be at very high risk of becoming infected when caring
AFL-CIO
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Rapid Tests for Viral Upper Airway Respiratory Infections in the Workplace: A Pilot Study on a Professional Football Team

Medicina
Background and Objectives: Acute infections among elite athletes are predominantly attributed to upper respiratory tract pathogens. From a practical standpoint, medical personnel responsible for the healthcare of professional football players should be ...
Dimitrios Papagiannis, George D. Vavougios, Kyriakos Yiangou, Evangelos Latzourakis, Foteini Malli, Konstantinos I. Gourgoulianis, Georgios M. Hadjigeorgiou   +6 more
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Effect of health worry on processing of health information, behavioral intentions, and behavior [PDF]

, 2009
Although correlational studies show a relationship between worry about health concerns and higher rates of self-protective behavior, there has been no experimental research supporting the relationship and little research on the mechanisms by which worry ...
Zajac, Laura Eddy
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Validation of a Traditional Medicine, Achyrocline satureioides Infusion, for the Improvement of Mild Respiratory Infection Symptoms: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled and Open-Label Clinical Trial

Pharmaceuticals
Background/Objectives: The need for the scientific validation of traditional and folk medicine knowledge has emerged lately. Achyrocline satureioides inflorescences have been widely used for the management of mild viral respiratory infection symptoms in ...
Catherina Isdra Moszkowicz Bastos, Caroline Dani, Laura Reck Cechinel, Arthur Hipolito da Silva Neves, Fabiana Briato Rasia, Marcelo Lazzaron Lamers, Sara Elis Bianchi, Gabriela Meirelles, Paulo Valdeci Worm, Valquiria Linck Bassani, Ionara Rodrigues Siqueira   +10 more
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Specific and Nonspecific Immunoprophilaxis of Respiratory Infections and Flu in Children with Allergic Diseases

Педиатрическая фармакология, 2015
Relevance. The only way to reduce the incidence of vaccination-controlled infections and to prevent epidemics at the current stage is a 95% preventive vaccination coverage.
E. G. Bokuchava, L. S. Namazova-Baranova
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Systemic Sclerosis and Vaccinations: A Register-Based Cohort Study about Seasonal Influenza and Streptococcus pneumoniae Vaccination Rate and Uptake from Liguria Regional Center, Northwest Italy

Vaccines, 2020
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is the connective tissue disease with the highest mortality and patients with chronic inflammatory immune-mediated diseases are at high risk of acquiring infections as they are often treated with immunosuppressive or biological ...
Giuseppe Murdaca, Giovanni Noberasco, Alberto Battaglini, Chiara Vassallo, Francesca Giusti, Monica Greco, Chiara Schiavi, Laura Sticchi, Giancarlo Icardi, Andrea Orsi   +9 more
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Vacunación de la embarazada

Revista Médica Clínica Las Condes, 2020
Resumen: Las vacunas han sido una de las herramientas más útiles para lograr disminuir la mortalidad infantil. Sin embargo, los beneficios de las vacunas para menores de un año son dispares, debido a que son muy pequeños para ser vacunados.
María Verónica Contardo
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What Are Americans' Most Pressing Health Concerns? [PDF]

, 2007
Summarizes findings from a June 2006 survey on health issues Americans are most concerned about, such as developing heart disease, diabetes, obesity-related illnesses, and avian flu.
Chioma Uzoigwe
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