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1) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In addition to individuals from regions of high-and-intermediate endemicity, the CDC also added new recommendations for HBV testing in unvaccinated persons born in the United States whose parents are from areas of high HBV endemicity, injection-drug users, men who have sex with men (MSM), and persons taking immunosuppressive drugs for treatment of cancer and other diseases or to prevent rejection of transplanted organs.
However, there are pitfalls: * Malaria endemicity may change rapidly, particularly in 'fringe areas' of plasmodial prevalence, leading to sentinel cases from areas previously thought to be malaria free.
Researchers, led by Simon Hay from the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, have shown that global malaria endemicity is substantially lower than would be predicted from inspection of historical maps.
 
 
 
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