The common cold is something everybody deals with and there are a thousand different suggestions on how to avoid catching a cold, everything from megadoses of vitamin C to increasing...
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HIV, or Human Immunodeficiency Virus, affects about 1.2 million people in the United States. If left untreated, HIV can become the disease AIDS (acquired immunode ciency syndrome). HIV is treated…
What Is The Flu? While the flu is actually not a season, we have become programmed to think of it as the months of November through March. On average, the...
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In our last post we explored germ theory and proper hand washing techniques. Hand washing is the number one way to prevent infection. Hand sanitizers should NOT be a substitute…
Our modern knowledge of how infectious diseases spread did not enter popular knowledge until the late 1800’s with the work of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. Sanitation in medical and…
