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Coronary Heart Disease American Lung Association
1,047 words"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were a little over 300, 000 deaths related to AIDS in 1997. That's like taking half the people in Baltimore county and making them disappear. Another 75, 000 died from alcohol. In addition to that, 20, 000 died from illegal drug use, and 25, 000 died from motor vehicle crashes. But if you were to add those numbers up, they still wouldn't equal the amount of deaths that were related to tobacco. In fact, each year, smoking kills m...
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Centers For Disease Control Disease Control And Prevention
856 wordsWhile the federal governments investment in treatment and research is helping people with HIV/AIDS live longer and more productive lives, HIV continues to spread at a staggering national rate of over 40, 000 new infections per year. The following data represent the total reported AIDS cases in Georgia through year-end 2002: 1998 8, 785 1999 9, 663 2000 10, 290 2001 11, 269 2002 12, 320 For 2003, according to the information given on July 7 th, there were 26, 373 cases (1). It is the position of ...
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York New York Control And Prevention
2,030 wordsHIV/AIDS: Why Won't it Stop? AIDS is a very complicated infection. It is not only infecting individuals, but it also infecting our society. Until a cur is rach it will continu to page human society. No person will vr b truly saf. Our government nds to kp spending mony on research to develop a cur for AIDS. To fully understand why our government should continu to send its funds on AIDS research on must first understand AIDS. Noone actually knows where AIDS comes from. Americans say that it origin...
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Centers For Disease Control Disease Control And Prevention
1,508 wordsWhile the federal governments investment in treatment and research is helping people with HIV/AIDS live longer and more productive lives, HIV continues to spread at a staggering national rate of over 40, 000 new infections per year. The following data represent the total reported AIDS cases in Georgia through year-end 2002: 1998 8, 785 1999 9, 663 2000 10, 290 2001 11, 269 2002 12, 320 For 2003, according to the information given on July 7 th, there were 26, 373 cases (1). It is the position of ...
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Disease Control And Prevention Person To Person
1,235 wordsCryptosporidium Parfum Water Born Illness By Sheri N. Man December 8, 1999 Introduction Public Health-What we as a society do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can live productive and vigorous lives. Public Health does things that benefit everyone. It also prevents illness and educates the population. Public Health is a combination of science, practical skills and beliefs that is directed to the maintenance and improvement of the health of people. The science and art of preve...
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Sexually Transmitted Disease Centers For Disease Control
766 wordsSymptoms and Factors of ChlamydiThe sexually transmitted disease caused by microorganisms that live, as parasites within a cell would commonly be known as Chlamedia. These microorganisms have properties in common with both viruses and bacteria, and cause infection in humans. The causes and risk factors of the Chlamydia infection is caused by the organism Chlamydia trachomas. It is to be the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United states with an estimated 3, 000, 000 to 4, 000, 000...
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Twenty Five Percent Centers For Disease Control
1,930 wordsForty-eight million Americans smoked in 1997 which is equivalent to about twenty-five percent of the nation s adult population, according to a U. S. government survey released in November, 1999 (Cooper n. p. ). According to Michael Ericsson, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s Office on Smoking and Health, the smoking rate among young adults ages 18 - 24 rose about four percent because of the increase in teen smoking seen over the next ten years. He said, As these teenag...
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