Like polio, smallpox was a viral disease for which effective, easily administered vaccines existed.
ECONOMIST: Can a businessmen��s club eradicate polio from the world?
Polio, a viral disease, affects nerves and can lead to partial or full paralysis.
The World Health Organization says dengue ranks as the most important mosquito-borne viral disease in the world.
My bottom line is that young people making major decisions about their lives, careers, and life partners have enough stress without adding the burden of potential poor self-image inflicted by a viral disease such as genital warts.
Wall Street is bracing for one of the biggest new drug categories in a decade: the launch of a series of antiviral medicines that could dramatically improve the cure rate for hepatitis C, a viral disease that slowly attacks the liver and is often fatal.
The company has tried to create new enthusiasm with with efforts to expand into hepatitis C, the viral liver disease that is looking like the next big drug market, and into other areas such as heart disease, cystic fibrosis, and pulmonary arterial hypertension.
FORBES: Gilead Tries To Revive Itself With $11 Billion Purchase Of Pharmasset
Worldwide, one in twelve people is living with viral hepatitis -- a disease that threatens the health of millions of Americans and people across the globe.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- World Hepatitis Day, 2012
Stockpiles of disease control equipment, anti-viral drugs and clinical equipment have been increased and China says it has the capacity to make anti-viral medicines.
On World Hepatitis Day, let us raise awareness of the global health threat of viral hepatitis, renew our support for those living with the disease, and recommit to a future free of this tragic illness.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- World Hepatitis Day, 2012
About half of all liver disease is alcohol related, a third is caused by viral hepatitis and the remainder due to immune system dysfunction, metabolic disorders and inherited diseases.
Drugs can reduce it to some extent, by bringing people's viral load down to the point where they will not pass on the disease.
Although the disease is currently a threat mainly to poultry, many are worried about the supply of anti-viral drugs and vaccines for a human pandemic.
ECONOMIST: Calls for more money as the threat looms ever larger | The
Liver disease, the fifth biggest cause of death in England and Wales behind heart disease, cancer, stroke and respiratory disease, comes in more than 100 forms but is most commonly associated with alcohol abuse, obesity and viral hepatitis.
BBC: Liver damage is 'silent killer' cirrhosis patient warns
应用推荐