Infectious Disease Results
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IN THE NEWS: Polio-Like Illness AFM Tests An Overstretched Public Health System
Laura Power Quoted in Huffington Post
The mysterious, polio-like disease that has struck 414 people — mostly young children — across the United States since 2014 comes at a time when the public health system already is overstretched. Read more
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Environmental Monitoring Will Be Key as World Reaches Global Polio Eradication
New Research from Andrew Brouwer
Robust environmental monitoring should be used as the world approaches global eradication of polio, say researchers from the University of Michigan School of Public Health who recently studied the epidemiology of the 2013 silent polio outbreak in Rahat, Israel. Read more
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Michigan Public Health to Launch HIV Prevention Program for Transgender Women and Their Partners
New Project Led by Kristi Gamarel
More than 20 percent of transgender women are currently living with HIV, and transgender women are nearly 50 times more likely to contract HIV than cisgender individuals. A research team led by Kristi Gamarel, assistant professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, is working to address this health inequity. Read more
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Hepatitis B: Stopping a Silent Killer
Q&A with David Hutton
Every year, hepatitis B kills more than 780,000 people around the world, and is the single most serious liver infection, according to the World Health Organization. David Hutton, associate professor of Health Management and Policy, says early diagnosis and treatment is key to stopping the spread of the disease in the United States. Read more
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IN THE NEWS: Colleges in America and Ecuador Team Up to Study Dengue and Zika
Joseph Eisenberg in College Choice
Scientists from Michigan Public Health and five other universities received a grant from the NIH to research the effect of a highway in Ecuador on the spread of Zika and Dengue fever. Joseph Eisenberg, chair and professor of Epidemiology, talks about the impact of this work. Read more
