One tip to avoid the spread of infectious diseases: Don't gather in confined spaces.
Like, you know, a ship at sea. (We haven't forgotten all those news
stories about the stomach-churning, disinfectant-resisting norovirus.)
This conference-on-a-cruise about contagion and bugs is aimed at the
continuing education of physicians and nurses. The unintentional
takeaway? Do as your docs say, not as they do. -- Kate Rockwood
Sun, July 12
Cover Your Mouth
Infectious Disease Cruise Conference
7 days/6 nights, from Seattle
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Recent Comments | 1 Total
July 16, 2009 at 5:40am by Humberto M
Recently, many new kinds of disease are emerging and infecting animals that afterwards are being transmitted to human. It is said that this happens because of the more interaction of human to animals and animals have no more place they can roam around freely. That is why maybe we are more prone to catch their disease and it is deadly to human. The latest is the swine flu which already affected thousands worldwide and already killed many. We have to be hygienic to avoid this new flu. We can also consider remedies for this kind of illness. People who don't want to have to get a prescription for everything could look into the People's Pharmacy. The People's Pharmacy isn't a communist pharmacy, but it's an organization, website, and series of publications that's chock full of home remedies that have been proven in the field, like using Listerine to repel mosquitoes. The People's Pharmacy was started by Joe Graedon, a pharmacologist, and his wife Terry, a medical anthropologist, because they wanted to find some better ways of doing things and living healthier, without needing to rely on some stooge for Big Pharma. Viewing the website is free, but the books published by the People's Pharmacy might be worth some online cash loans.