NATS 1670 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Antigen, Cervix, Recombinant Dna
10 Aug 2016
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History of an infected agent: started in congo brazzaville. Measuring disease frequency: incidence (new cases) and prevalence (cumulative cases) Incidence rate: rate at which cases occur in a population during a specific time period. Prevalence rate: the proportion of a population that are cases at a point in time. Injecting drugs was a way of disease transmission. Global summary 2003: people infected with aids 2. 1 million, adults 1. 9 million and children < 15 years 240,000, over 95% of the infections are in developing countries e. g. sub saharan africa. Aids statistics 2010 sub saharan africa: about 1. 9 million new cases of hiv infection per year, 1. 2 million deaths every year, approx. 23million people are infected right now with hiv: 3. 1 million are children, several countries in sub saharan africa report infection rates of 20-35% Aids/hiv in western countries: cumulative estimated number of diagnoses of aids in the us since 1981 is approx.
