Infectious Diseases
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- MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Respiratory syncytial virus
- Includes cause, symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, complications, and prevention.
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- MedlinePlus: Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections
- Directory of factsheets, news reports, and articles.
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- PreemieCare: Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
- Awareness and prevention information for parents of premature babies, includes parent stories.
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- Respiratory Syncytial Virus
- Learn how to recognize the signs and symptoms of this contagious infection.
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- MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Rubella
- Features cause, symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention.
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- Rubella (German measles)
- Easy to understand information for patients on German measles, a mild viral illness caused by the rubella virus. Written by a UK general practitioner.
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- Smallpox
- By Whale: A look at this diseases severity and infectiousness, vaccine damage and failures and links to articles.
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- The Demon in the Freezer
- The story of how smallpox, a disease of officially eradicated became the biggest bioterrorist threat we now face.
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- eMedicine Health - Smallpox
- Consumer health resource center providing information on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of this disorder, also called variola.
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- WSJ.com: Further Evidence of an XMRV-Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Connection?
- A report that a respected NIH expert supported an association between the XMRV virus and chronic fatigue syndrome during a closed workshop on blood transfusion in May. (June 23, 2010)
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- ScienceDaily: Correlation Between XMRV and Prostate Cancer: Novel Retrovirus Diagnostic Test Developed
- Report about the successful development of an experimental clinical test for XMRV by researchers at Emory University. (April 06, 2010)
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- This Week in Virology: XMRV with Professor Stephen Goff
- Netcast of virologist Vincent Racaniello speaking with retrovirus researcher Stephen Vincent about the origin of XMRV and its association with disease. (April 04, 2010)
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- Retrovirology: Detection of a Gammaretrovirus, XMRV, in the Human Population
- Questions concerning the detection of XMRV and implications for xenotransplantation. (March 10, 2010)
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- Prevalence of Xenotropic Murine Leukaemia Virus-related Virus in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in the Netherlands
- Report on a retrospective analysis that failed to show the presence of XMRV. (February 25, 2010)