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Patient 1:
A 28-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 2-day history of a right groin lump, scrotal discomfort and swelling. He was systemically well without urinary symptoms.
Why is it bad news for Gov. Perry when Science Magazine reports that the head of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, Peter Hotez, is leaving George Washington University and moving the 20 plus person vaccine development team to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston?
Dr Yameogo indicated that to effectively eliminate the disease, there was the need for more commitment from afflicted countries and donors adding that it was pertinent for countries to contribute a minimum of 25 per cent of the budget needed while donors threw in the remaining 75 per cent needed to implement the programme within countries.
TDR – the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases that is based at WHO and co-sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, the World Bank and WHO – has been given the 2011 Gates Award for Global Health. At a ceremony in Washington, DC the evening of 16 June, the world’s largest public health prize was presented to TDR Director Dr Robert Ridley.
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