Traduction de «contamination par virus » (Français → Anglais) :

Q. whereas the Ebola crisis has resulted in another problem which Médecins Sans Frontières has referred to as ‘a crisis within a crisis’, namely that people with conditions other than Ebola are not going to hospital for fear that they will be infected with the virus;

K. whereas female nurses represent the majority of health staff who have been infected and died from the virus; whereas the humanitarian crisis has put a drain on healthcare facilities, equipment and personnel, drawing already scarce resources away from pregnant women; whereas the lack of access by women, especially pregnant women, to reproductive health services is a major health disaster in waiting;

The other group was really the workers that we might choose to have vaccinated, and we went for health workers and social care workers on the basis, as I said earlier, that they would be in a situation where, first, they could be infected, could be exposed to the virus given the nature of their work, and second, once infected, they could transmit the virus to particularly vulnerable people.

In the 1980s, two viruses contaminated blood supplies: the HIV virus and the hepatitis C virus. It is important to remember that, as a result, 10,000 people in Canada contracted hepatitis C, some 1,000 contracted the HIV virus, and half of these people died.

Dr. Kenneth Rosenthal: In a very simplistic way, we're all walking tubes, and most infections we get enter our bodies through contaminated air, like the flu viruses, these respiratory viruses, through contaminated food or water, or through sexual transmission.

- the reduction of sexual transmission : . education and information programmes, . creation and launching of media campaigns (television, radio, films, etc.), . educational programmes aimed at specific groups, . improvement of programmes to control sexually transmitted diseases (STD) ; - 4 - - the reduction and control of perinatal transmission : . screening of pregnant women, . counselling of seropositive women on the consequences of HIV infection, . advice to seronegative women on how to avoid infection, . screening and counselling of other members of the family where necessary ; - the reduction of transmission through use of contamined needles, syringes a ...[+++]nd other skin-piercing instruments : . improvement of standards of professional hygiene, . education of health workers on HIV infection and transmission, . provision of needles and syringes where required, . protection of health workers ; - setting up of surveillance systems to assess the affect of control programmes and the development of the disease ; - supply of material, technical and financial aid to national AIDS control committees ; - participation in the overall assessment of national AIDS control programmes under the aegis of the WHO's SPA ; - the operational research geared to public health which forms part of any national AIDS control programme.