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Dykstra: A Marvellous Call on Semis
Street.Com - She will graduate from UCLA’s medical school this Friday and plans to specialize in pediatric allergy and infectious disease. She does not use a prosthetic arm, but does travel the battle field on two prosthetic legs. She is able to do most medical

Population mortality during the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory
BioMed Central - on access to medical services during the 2003 SARS outbreak in Toronto had no observable impact on short-term population mortality. Effects on morbidity and long-term mortality were not assessed. Efforts to contain future infectious disease

Health Officials Seek Passengers Who Shared Filght With TB Victim
ABC News - and overseas for international travelers who may have come into contact with a man who flew between Europe and North America while carrying a dangerous form of tuberculosis, putting other passengers at risk for contracting this infectious disease

Japanese universities beset by measles
PhysOrg - Japan’s Keio University was forced to cancel most of its classes recently because of a major measles outbreak affecting the nation’s schools. As universities nationwide struggle with similar outbreaks of the infectious disease, schools such as Keio

FDA signals approval of FluMist for kids under 5
Baltimore Sun - James Campbell, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Center for Vaccine Development. Campbell and other vaccine experts said a nasal spray would be an effective tool in preventing flu, in part