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From: Shannon <atlgqs_at_bismel.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:20:34 +0100

Essentially, there are two types. This creates pressure in the corpora cavernosa, making the penis expand. Opportunistic infections can produce a wide range of symptoms, some of them severe. Can transmission be prevented?
It involves a week-long programme of community education about the negative effects of female genital mutilation, culminating in a coming of age ceremony for young women. Health workers believe the programme works because it does not exert a blunt prohibition on female genital mutilation, but offers an attractive alternative.
Glaucoma is the name given to a group of conditions that affect the eye. It can also cause some visual problems, including an increased sensitivity to light, blurred vision or an inability to tell the difference between blue and green.
On very rare occasions it may also cause heart disorders and problems with the central nervous system.
The best way to keep yourself hydrated is to drink water, and to sip it, rather than gulp it down. 5 million people in developing and transitional countries who need life-saving AIDS drugs, only 1 million are receiving them.
How can it be avoided? In 1959, stunted children were given HGH to help them grow.
The virus is carried in the blood, and people with the infection can pass it on if their blood gets under the skin or into the bloodstream of another person.
In scientific circles, it was clear as early as 1977 that there was a risk of transmission. It also says that heat, from hot water bottles, baths or showers or even soaking hands and feet for a few minutes can relieve overnight symptoms. They get aches, tremors, sweats, chills, and muscular spasms. The mainstay of treatment is with antiretroviral drugs. Other symptoms of hepatitis C include weight loss, alcohol intolerance, vomiting and flu like symptoms.
This can occur through direct blood-to-blood contact, unprotected sex, and illicit drug use.
Warts on different parts of the body relate to different types of papillomavirus.
Symptoms seldom last for more than four months.
However, some experts believe the true figure is probably much higher.

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