Diseases- What they were called earlier

New cases in Pous 2064, HIV = 175, AIDS = 26, Death = 2. HIV rate is very high in Housewives than sex workers in Nepal ! ! ! HIV status in Nepal till 2005: Total Adult=70000, Adult Prevalence (15-49)=0.55%, Number of Women (15-49) LWHA=15,310 (22%), HIV Prevalence rate in IDUs=32.7%, HIV prevalence rate in sex worker=3.8%, HIV prevalence rate in client of SW=2.1%. The latest U.N. report shows that 65 million people have been infected with HIV since it was first identified 25 years ago. Twenty five million people have died of AIDS.

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Diseases- What they were called earlier - 18-03-2006, 03:38 PM

Old disease - New name
Ablepsy- Blindness
Ague - Malarial fever
American Plague - Yellow fever
Anasarca - Generalised massive edema
Aphonia- Laryngitis
Aphtha- The Infant disease "Thrush"
Apoplexy- Paralysis due to stroke
Asphyxia - cyanotic and lack of oxygen
Atrophy - Wasting away or diminising in size

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Sinamangal, Kathmandu
Nepal

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