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Genital Herpes Learning Center

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Pregnant women who have an active herpes infection on their genitals or in their birth canal when they deliver may pass the infection to their newborn infant.
Source:ADAM
Date:September 13, 2009
Although physically and emotionally painful, genital herpes is usually not a life-threatening disease. The primary infection can be severe and may require hospitalization for treatment. Complications of the primary infection may involve the cervix...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Although physically and emotionally painful, genital herpes is usually not a serious disease. The primary infection can be severe and may require hospitalization for treatment. Complications of the primary infection may involve the cervix, urinary...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Encephalitis is irritation and swelling (inflammation) of the brain, usually due to infections. See also: Meningitis
Source:ADAM
Date:September 28, 2008
Although the word meningitis suggests an inflammation of the meninges only, there is always some involvement of the most superficial parts of the brain that are contiguous to the meninges. Often there are also alterations in the flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
Source:Elsevier
Encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain, usually caused by a direct viral infection or a hypersensitivity reaction to a virus or foreign protein. Brain inflammation caused by a bacterial infection is sometimes called cerebritis. When both the...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain, usually caused by a direct viral infection or a hypersensitivity reaction to a virus or foreign protein. Brain inflammation caused by a bacterial infection is sometimes called cerebritis. When both the...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Encephalitis is an acute inflammatory process that affects brain tissue and is almost always accompanied by inflammation of the adjacent meninges (tissues lining the brain). There are many types of encephalitis, most of which are caused by viral i...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
An inflammatory disease of the brain caused by a virus that either has invaded the brain, or a virus appearing elsewhere in the body that has caused a sensitivity reaction in the brain. Encephalitis infects the brain tissue itself and has serious ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Urinary (or bladder) incontinence is when you are not able to keep urine from leaking from your urethra, the tube that carries urine out of your body from your bladder. It can range from an occasional leakage of urine, to a complete inability to h...
Source:ADAM
Date:August 30, 2009
Incontinence is the loss of normal control of the bowel or bladder. Incontinence can involve the involuntary voiding of urine (urinary incontinence) or of stool and gas (fecal or bowel incontinence). There are several types of urinary incontinence...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
Fecal incontinence is the inability to control the passage of gas or stools (feces) through the anus. For some people, fecal incontinence is a relatively minor problem that is limited to a slight occasional soiling of underwear, but for others it ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
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