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Posted: November 02 2019 at 1:57am |
It has just emerged that measles infections drop a person's immune response for 3 years after infection. Although measles may be a particularily nasty example of such disease behaviours, it is not unique.
It turns out that sepsis deaths can be reduced by 40% (40%!!!) if the patient sees an infectious disease specialist within 12 hours of hospital admission. The whole article is here: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20191031/An-infectious-disease-expert-may-reduce-risk-of-death-for-patients-with-sepsis.aspx |
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