Infectious Diseases

Medical soldiers protect world borders from infectious diseases

Published in Health and Medicine Week, December 26th, 2005

For more than 15 years, Terrie Taylor has spent up to 6 months each year away from her Michigan home to share a rented home with several medical students that is prone to power outages and water shortages.

She leaves modern day conveniences to conduct research in Malawi, a small African republic that is one of the poorest communities in the world, where over 12 million citizens die each year due to infectious diseases such as malaria.

Taylor, professor at Michigan State University, leads work at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Malawi specifically targeting the treatment of children with malaria, for which there is no vaccine. "I see children...

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Source: Health and Medicine Week (2005-12-26)

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