Measles outbreaks: a reminder that human diseases can move beyond human populations

Human Parvovirus B19Infection among Exanthematic Diseases Clinically Diagnosed as Measles in 2005 in Iran

Can We Move Beyond the Secular State?

The article argues for re-consideration of the secularization so often in the West regarded as an essential condition for a democratic state. Its inbuilt incoherence and problematic consequences suggest that the term secular should be abandoned. Deep-seated reasons for objecting to such a proposal follow, discussing an affront to personal integrity, confronting intellectual apartheid and analys...

Recent animal disease outbreaks and their impact on human populations.

Over the past 20 years, headlines have documented an increasing number of emerging diseases; most have an animal source (zoonoses). Recent examples include West Nile virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), avian influenza, and monkeypox. While some emerging diseases occur among both humans and animals, others affect only animals or only humans. Nevertheless, all these new or reemerging...

Human parvovirus B19 infections among exanthematic diseases notified as measles.

A total of 1397 sera collected from 1095 cases of exanthematic disease notified as measles in ES and RJ states during July 1992 to December 1994 were investigated. These sera were first tested for measles and rubella specific IgM. When they proved negative, they were tested for B19 specific IgM by an enzyme immunoassay. B19 infection was confirmed in 27 (2.5%) of these cases. Sera from 194 nega...

Interdisciplinary interventions and teams are good...can we move beyond that?

In an attempt to move the research forward on the use of interdisciplinary teams to improve health care, a group of physicians, Nazir et al,1 did a systematic review of interdisciplinary interventions in nursing home settings. The team defined interdisciplinary care as entailing at least 2 disciplines that rely on each other, participate in team activities, and share leadership to accomplish te...