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  • As a first step in moving into the international medical con - sumables and equipment market we are investing some R120 million in the Western Cape to manufacture safety syringes, which offer much greater protection to health-care workers against accidental infec - tion with HIV, hepatitis and other viruses from needle-stick inju - ries.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • It had been a long night A gunshot wound, a burst appendix, an amateur carpenter who 'd hammered his thumb, two kids with ear infec - tions, and a baby born in one of the ER chairs.

    Dark Dreams Hodgman, Ann 1993

  • His smile was so infec - tious, a small laugh ran around the circle of plotters.

    Briar Rose Yolen, Jane 1991

  • The banishing of heterogenesis from microbiology and the resultant recognition that micro-organisms, like all the more visible forms of life, are reproduced only by their own kind, made possible the establishment of bacteri - ology as a precise science and its revolutionary appli - cations in immunology and in the treatment of infec - tious diseases.

    SPONTANEOUS GENERATION ARAM VARTANIAN 1968

  • The ability to carry arms has nothing to do with the health department maintained by the city, which provides that chil - dren are vaccinated, that contagious diseases are isolated and placarded, that the spread of tuberculosis is curbed, that the water is free from typhoid infec - tion.

    Women and Public Housekeeping 1913

  • More than 33.4 million people are living with HIV/AIDS in the world today with 2.7 million new infec ...

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010

  • Despite widespread reports in the U.S. media concerning the sharp rise in the number of annual infec ...

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • Despite widespread reports in the U.S. media concerning the sharp rise in the number of annual infec ...

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • -- The health of the mind is not less uncertain than that of the body, and when passions seem furthest removed we are no less in danger of infec - tion than of falling ill when we are well.

    Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims Fran��ois duc de La Rochefoucauld 1646

  • He further asserts that flies i.e., malaria, typhoid, cholera, eye disease and Thumama (r. a) and other companions were with Anas others, occurred in Prophet's time because flies infec - when a fly fell into a vessel.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

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