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Severe infections leading to hospitalizations during childhood are associated with lower school achievement in adolescence,reports a study in the July issue of The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal (PIDJ).
In the nationwide study of nearly 600,000 Danish children, higher numbers of hospitalizations for infections were associated with a reduced probability of completing ninth grade, as well as with lower test scores, according to the new research by Ole Köhler-Fosberg, MD, of Aarhus University Hospital and colleagues. An expert commentary discusses the role of vaccination in the relationship between investment in health and protecting and improving "human capital."
The study included nationwide data of 598,553 children born in Denmark between 1987 and 1997. The researchers looked at two measures of childhood infections: hospital admission for infections, an indicator of moderate to severe infections; and prescriptions for anti-infective drugs (such as antibiotics) in primary care, reflecting less-severe infections.
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @11:37AM (2 children)
I worked in Geek Squad for 5 years (finally started making a enough money doing freelance development to quit this past december).
I've done malware removal on 5-10 computers a day, 5 days a week for most of that time. So I've seen thousands of malware infections on the average consumer's computer. I've seen more different malware infections than just about anyone outside of an antivirus research lab.
When I first started most of malware came from users downloading files from P2P sites. However, for the last 2 years nearly all the malware I found was installed via a drive-by download that happened without user input.
You can talk all you like about avoiding porn sites and installing AV software, but it's not that simple. The majority of the computers I worked on had current AV programs--they weren't able to prevent the infections. The situation with malware and windows is absolutely terrible, and it doesn't only happen to idiots who stuff their drives with porn.
Macs have security flaws--they aren't perfect, but when compared to the malware ghetto I've dealt with over the years, calling this a mac malware problem an "explosion" is just ridiculous.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:27PM
Did you by chance happen to suffer a major infection when you were young? You post sure seems to indicate some impairment in your mental function.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:31PM
I do malware removal for an office of a thousand people, and you are completely divorced from reality.
Here in the real world, malware is an entirely social problem. The same people keep getting malware constantly, and they al! know each other. The malware people are all idiots who visit seedy websites, but it's worse than that. They literally email malware links to each other. No amount of telling them to stop visiting seedy websites is effective. No amount of telling them not to share links to seedy websites is effective. Their social clique is a stronger influence than any warning they receive about the dangers of malware. The social norm in their clique is to follow every link sent to them and install every piece of malware they can find. Antimalware protection is entirely ineffective since there is no way signature updates can keep up with the sheer amount of exposure these people have.
The people who get all the malware are, as you might expect, the people who handle the money. Accountants, HR, managers. Everyone else is too busy working to dink around with chain letters full of links to malware.