CheckOrphan NewsFlash for Wednesday, November 4, 2009 – breaking news about rare diseases, orphan diseases, orphan drugs, and neglected diseases. Today’s broadcast highlights topics about: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, IPF, lung disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, PSP, ImmuneWorks, Zeltia, PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, malaria, Gamma Knife, glioblastoma multiforme, HIV, AIDS, neglected tropical diseases, worms, protozoa, bacteria, fungi, viruses, Health Affairs, Project HOPE www.checkorphan.org http www.healthaffairs.org

I am not looking for a disease to humans; I’m doing a project and am not allowed to use that more than once, and I need one more example for how bacteria are harmful to the environment.

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How did scientific awareness of HIV begin?

1. The United Nations notified the world about an epidemic in Africa.
2. Gay men protested the lack of adequate funding for research on all STIs
3. Physicians noted rare diseases that began appearing among healthy young men in major cities in the United States.
4. The same bacteria that caused other STIs were found to have mutated into a new form.

The Hidden Secret

My teacher told me that pretty much all meat is safe because once you cook it, all the bacteria are killed. But if that is true, what is the point of the USDA inspecting meat?

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i want it to be interesting.
and rare and unique.

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I think it’s in Africa, where like this virus or bacteria is in your body and starts disolving all your vital organs and like right before you die you like throw up black sludge. That is sad, do you know what it might be?

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