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Infectious heart disease death rates rising again, scientists state
15 Sep 2008
Infectious heart disease remains a major killer despite improvements in health care, scientists speaking at the Society for General Microbiology's autumn meeting in Dublin, Ireland, this week have said.
According to the experts, infective endocarditis - a progressive heart disease first identified in the 19th century - has changed so much since it was discovered that doctors from that period would no longer recognise it.
Cardiologist Dr Bernard Predergrast, from the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, UK, stated that the condition is still evolving and new patterns of the disease are being seen.
He noted that the death rate appears to be rising after being virtually unchanged for the last 20 years, despite improvements in health care.
"Greater awareness of the dangers of infective endocarditis amongst both doctors and patients is certainly essential and improved dental health and skin hygiene are probably at least as important as blanket antibiotic treatment," he concluded.
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