Livre CGT, the French union, called the free paper "an epidemic illness of liberalism that requires an emergency vaccination".
Noroviruses (NoVs) are non-enveloped, single-stranded RNA viruses that cause both sporadic and epidemic illness.
An epidemic illness characterized by head nodding associated with onchocerciasis has been described in eastern Africa since the early 1960s; we summarize published reports and recent studies.
Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease of global importance (1– 5) that occurs in both urban and rural settings (2, 6– 8) and causes both endemic and epidemic illness, including pulmonary hemorrhage and death (7, 9– 11).
We assume that the antibodies detected in Tanzania in this study were caused by R. typhi, because, to our knowledge, no severe or epidemic illness compatible with louse-borne typhus has been described in the study region.
Moreover, as Littré saw this collection of illnesses as a single disease, he essentially turned it into an epidemic, probably because he had the modern sense of the term in mind and thought that Hippocrates had observed and described an epidemic illness unknown to modern medicine (5 ).
There is also evidence that epidemics of illnesses resembling dengue occurred in the 17th century.
Also discussed are insights relevant to pseudoneurological symptoms and to the forthcoming Dissociative-Conversive disorders category in DSM-V, including what the author terms fright-triggered acute pseudo-localized symptoms (i.e., pseudoparalysis, pseudocerebellar imbalance, psychogenic blindness, pseudoseizures, and epidemic sociogenic illness).
The health issue resulting from such practices was evident in all types of epidemics and illnesses around us.
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