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Ascaris lumbrioides: One Big Worm
Ascaris lumbricoides is the large round worm of folk lore, and it still lives in the intestinal tract of an estimated quarter of the world’s population. Ascaris lumbricoides can reach huge size, up to...
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Chikungunya Virus: The Latest Exotic Illness in the U.S.
Another disease previously not documented to have been acquired in the continental US surfaced this month. A case of Chikungunya virus infection was diagnosed in a man in Florida on about July 15th,...
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Ebola virus has been front-page news recently and the arrival of Dr. Kent Brantley at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta was the first Ebola infected patient to be transported to the U.S. for care....
View ArticleAFP Pearls
I read the American Family Physician journal, sent to all members of the American Academy of Family Physicians and anyone else who subscribes, and sometimes an issue comes out with a few pearls that I...
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