Rob.Carr@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Rob Carr) (07/10/89)
Hey, anyone want to recommend a good medical/biochemistry type book on AIDS? I
mean, I recognize p24 as being a protein produced by HIV, T helper cells as
being part of the immune system, etc., but this stuff is getting beyond my
background.
Why would a paramedic want to read such a technical book on HIV? Well, I am
also a biochemist. Besides, learning what I was interested in instead of what
I should have been learning got me where I am today. Blue collar job at an
absurdly low salary.
Thanks for any recommendations.
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Internet: Rob.Carr@f81.n129.z1.fidonet.orgRob.Carr@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Rob Carr) (07/10/89)
Someone asleep at the switch? You mean like the recurrence of a lethal strep
that just got published in NEJM that's been going on for at least 2 years here
in the USA with only a few people noticing?
For all you PWAs and PWARCs out there, there's a new (?) strain of strep that
produces scarlatina toxin. The outbreak of strep in the '40s produced this
toxin, with the side effect that anyone alive then is probably immunized
against this more recent outbreak. No cases have been found so far in anyone
over 50 years old.
Symptoms include fever, red or otherwise irritated skin, toxic shock, and
death, with first symptom to death time possibly as little as 24 hours and a
lethality rate somewhere near 30% (hey, 20 cases known, that may vary
significantly).
If this is what it does to people with a normally functioning immune system....
I'd suggest PWAs and PWARCs remember to wash hands frequently and avoid close
contact with someone with an infection that produces a fever. Although you all
should already probably be doing that.
I'll post a better message when I get a look at the NEJM article.
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