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How Pathogens Make Us Sick

WEBPathogenic microbes challenge the immune system in many ways. Viruses make us sick by killing cells or disrupting cell function. Our bodies often respond with fever (heat …

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Public Health Capacity

WEBPublic health advocates have called for improved surveillance to better monitor infectious diseases across the country. Part of this effort was the formation of the National …

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Prevention & Treatment, Microbe Awareness — The National …

WEBMicrobe Awareness. Daily habits provide some of the strongest defenses against infectious diseases. Among the sensible actions you can take: Keep immunizations up to date. …

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How Infection Works — The National Academies

WEBHow Infection Works. Microbes occupy all of our body surfaces, including the skin, gut, and mucous membranes. Most don’t do us any harm—in fact, many help us survive. But …

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How Infection Works, Microbes & Humans — The National …

WEBThere is a close connection between microbes and humans. Experts believe that about half of all human DNA originated from viruses that infected and embedded their nucleic acid …

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Disease Threats, Antibiotic Resistance — The National Academies

WEBAntibiotic resistance, also referred to as antimicrobial resistance, has been called one of the world’s most pressing public health problems. Almost every type of bacteria has …

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How Infection Works, Viruses — The National Academies

WEBViruses are simply packets of nucleic acid, either DNA or RNA, surrounded by a protein shell and sometimes fatty materials called lipids. Outside a living cell, a virus is a …

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Disease Threats, Influenza — The National Academies

WEBThe “flu” has become a popular catchall term to describe anything from a bad cold to stomach distress. But real flu, influenza, is the defined illness that many public health …

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National Academies Presents: What You Need to Know About …

WEBNational borders do little to block the path of infectious disease. Learn how our modern way of life contributes to the emergence and spread of diseases. Globalization. Climate …

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Types of Microbes — The National Academies

WEBLooking for reliable information about the types of microbes that can cause disease? The National Academies, advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine, …

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International Cooperation — The National Academies

WEBInternational Cooperation. National borders are trivial impediments to infectious disease threats. In the highly interconnected and readily traversed global village of our time, one …

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Disease Threats — The National Academies

WEBBetween 1976 and 2006, annual estimates of deaths from flu-related complications in the United States ranged from 3,000 to 49,000, depending on several factors. We tend to …

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How Infection Works, Bacteria — The National Academies

WEBA broader term, antimicrobial resistance, includes resistance to drugs that treat infections, viruses, or parasites. Unlike more complex forms of life, bacteria carry only one set of …

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Disease Threats, Global Killers — The National Academies

WEBIn 2014, there were an estimated 6 million new cases of TB and 1.5 million deaths, even though the incidence of TB worldwide since 2000 has fallen by an average of 1.5 …

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The National Academies presents: What You Need to Know About …

WEBMRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, is a type of staph bacteria that is resistant to many of the antibiotics commonly used to treat ordinary staph infections. …

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The National Academies presents: What You Need to Know About …

WEBZika Virus. Zika is usually caused by a virus transmitted by mosquitoes. Although Zika has been documented since 1947, the latest outbreak was reported in Brazil in 2015, with …

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Global Challenges, Globalization — The National Academies

WEBGlobalization. Today’s world is a global village with growing concentrations of people in huge cities, mass migrations forced by social or economic pressures, and accelerating …

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Infection Diseases Glossary — The National Academies

WEBAn organism that harbors a parasite or another organism where there is a symbiotic relationship between the two organisms. In some cases, the relationship is commensal, …

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Global Challenges, Poverty, Migration & War — The National …

WEBPoverty, migration, and war play a major role in the spread of infectious disease. The National Academies, advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine, …

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Prevention & Treatment, Public Health in Developing Nations — …

WEBThe gap in life expectancy between the richest and the poorest countries now exceeds 40 years—in large measure owing to the toll of infectious diseases.Safe water supplies, …

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