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Health care-associated infections

  • TuberculosisSkeletal remains from 4000 BC show tubercular decay in the spines of prehistoric humans. Researchers have found similar decay in Egyptian mummies dating from…
  • InfluenzaIn 1931, Richard Shope published three papers identifying a virus as the cause of swine influenza. This discovery reinvigorated research on human influenza…