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Prevention and control of Zika fever as a mosquito-borne and sexually transmitted disease [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2016 6: 28070, 2016 The ongoing Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic poses a major global public health emergency. It is known that ZIKV is spread by \textit{Aedes} mosquitoes, recent studies show that ZIKV can also be transmitted via sexual contact and cases of sexually transmitted ZIKV have been confirmed in the U.S., France, and Italy.
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The Importance of Collective Privacy in Digital Sexual and Reproductive Health [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 There is an abundance of digital sexual and reproductive health technologies that presents a concern regarding their potential sensitive data breaches. We analyzed 15 Internet of Things (IoT) devices with sexual and reproductive tracking services and found this ever-extending collection of data implicates many beyond the individual including partner ...
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Q fever outbreak in the terraced vineyards of Lavaux, Switzerland
New Microbes and New Infections, EarlyView., 2014 Abstract Coxiella burnetii infection (Q fever) is a widespread zoonosis with low endemicity in Switzerland, therefore no mandatory public report was required. A cluster of initially ten human cases of acute Q fever infections characterized by prolonged fever, asthenia and mild hepatitis occurred in 2012 in the terraced vineyard of Lavaux ...
C. Bellini +9 more
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Comics as Pedagogy: On Studying Illness in a Pandemic
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 2022 During the pandemic, graphic medicine has become even more central to what and how I teach. In this essay, I discuss how I used comics as pedagogy in classes on illness and illness politics that I taught during the first year of the pandemic.
Lisa Diedrich
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019 Reproductive health problems such as HIV, unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion among adolescents are closely linked to insufficient knowledge about sexuality and reproduction and lack of access to contraceptives.
J. Zulu +5 more
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The Web of Human Sexual Contacts [PDF]
Nature 411, 907-908 (2001), 2001 Many ``real-world'' networks are clearly defined while most ``social'' networks are to some extent subjective. Indeed, the accuracy of empirically-determined social networks is a question of some concern because individuals may have distinct perceptions of what constitutes a social link. One unambiguous type of connection is sexual contact.
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Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
, 2007 Introduction: Making masculinity : adolescence, identity, and high school -- Becoming Mr. Cougar : institutionalizing gender and sexuality at River High -- Dude, you're a fag : male adolescent homophobia -- Compulsive heterosexuality : masculinity and ...
C. J. Pascoe
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Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2022 Objective: Few large-scale studies have focused on the effect of gynecologic cancer compared with other biopsychosocial factors on willingness to seek treatment among women with sexual dysfunction.
Yin Jou Chou, Chun Ming Shih
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Spreading of sexually transmitted diseases in heterosexual populations [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 105, 1399
(2008), 2007 The spread of sexually transmitted diseases (e.g. Chlamydia, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, HIV) across populations is a major concern for scientists and health agencies. In this context, both data collection on sexual contact networks and the modeling of disease spreading, are intensively contributing to the search for effective immunization policies. Here, the
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.The LEXOVE prospective study evaluated plasma cell‐free extracellular vesicle (cfEV) dynamics using Bradford assay and dynamic light scattering in metastatic non‐small cell lung cancer patients undergoing first‐line treatments, correlating a ∆cfEV < 20% with improved median progression‐free survival in responders versus non‐responders.
Valerio Gristina +17 more
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