• Despite fears of an emerging influenza pandemic, human cases observed in Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia ( 1 ), and the severe socioeconomic losses in the poultry industry, the principal risk factors associated with the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) epidemic, which started in 2003 in eastern and southeastern Asia, are still poorly understood. (cdc.gov)
  • These outbreaks - avian and swine influenza, Ebola Makona, Q fever, Zika, among many others - are more than matters of bad luck. (globalagriculture.org)
  • As a result of these factors, we have had Zika, SARS, MERS, avian influenza and now Covid-19 in the twenty-first century, and Ebola, Marburg hemorrhagic fever, and HIV in the last part of the twentieth century. (drmurielgillick.com)
  • Unlike current influenza vaccines that are manufactured using a live virus, VLP-based vaccines do not require an actual sample of the infectious agent, just the genetic sequence of its proteins. (nature.com)
  • Carroll helmed the U.S. Agency for International Development's emerging threats unit for 15 years, and also launched the agency's Predict program in 2009 in response to the 2005 avian influenza outbreak. (insideclimatenews.org)
  • Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks report new cases in Montana of highly pathogenic avian influenza or H-P-A-I. (ypradio.org)
  • For a list of those precautions when processing or handling wild game, visit fwp.mt.gov/conservation/diseases/avian-influenza , or visit the USGS website at www.usgs.gov/centers/nwhc/science/avian-influenza-surveillance . (ypradio.org)
  • Health experts have been most worried about the possibility of the disease combining with human influenza virus to create a more lethal version that could spread between people-giving rise to a global pandemic" ( msnbc , February 7). (thetrumpet.com)
  • Because of the potential for avian flu to combine with a strain of human influenza, and the fact that scientists believe we are overdue for the next global epidemic, many scientists and government health officials fear that the next outbreak could be worse that the 1918 epidemic that killed millions. (thetrumpet.com)
  • At IDRC, the Ecohealth program is now turning its attention to global issues such as emerging infectious diseases - SARS, avian influenza, and H1N1 influenza, for example. (idrc-crdi.ca)
  • Rohani (above left), a professor who holds a joint appointment in the Odum School of Ecology and the department of infectious diseases in the College of Veterinary Medicine, is working on grant-funded research projects related to pertussis (more commonly known as whooping cough), the mosquito-borne dengue fever, polio and avian influenza. (uga.edu)
  • Through this research, Trent is developing methods to use bacteria to improve the efficacy of vaccines for diseases such as influenza, pertussis, cholera and HPV. (uga.edu)
  • Avian influenza is one of the most deadly epizootic diseases in history. (cealea.com)
  • More generally, this is just another reason for urgent investment in human and animal surveillance for influenza and other zoonotic diseases (a zoonotic disease is one humans get from animals). (scienceblogs.com)
  • Avian influenza (bird flu) is caused by infection with avian influenza (flu) Type A viruses. (cdc.gov)
  • This unprecedented increase in intensity of surveillance complicated the interpretation of records of disease outbreaks. (cdc.gov)
  • Those include measures to reduce causes of new infectious diseases and measures to prevent outbreaks and epidemics from becoming pandemics. (wikipedia.org)
  • His work uses mathematical and computational models to better predict and control disease outbreaks in humans and in wildlife. (uga.edu)
  • In many developing, low-resource settings, applying intensive poultry farming practices may increase the disease threat and preexisting health burdens, which could potentially lead to regional outbreaks or global disease pandemics. (msucares.com)
  • In 2012 it has been proposed to consider pandemic prevention as an aspect of international development in terms of health-care infrastructure and changes to the pathogen-related dynamics between humans and their environment including animals. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, the 2009 swine flu was linked to the international trade and consumption of pig meat, the 2004-2007 avian flu pandemic was linked to the farming and consumption of poultry and the coronavirus pandemic has possible links to the bushmeat industry (consumption of wild animals). (borgenproject.org)
  • Is an avian flu pandemic imminent? (org.in)
  • Human-to-human transmission of SARS may be considered eradicated, however, it could re-emerge as SARS-CoV-1 probably persists as a potential zoonotic threat in its original animal reservoir. (wikipedia.org)
  • The study, now published in Nature found that one mutation could result in a theoretical 'MERS-CoV-2' that, like SARS-CoV-2, can use humans' ACE2 receptor. (wikipedia.org)
  • SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that has swept the world, represents only one of a series of novel pathogen strains that have suddenly emerged or re-emerged as human threats this century. (globalagriculture.org)
  • SARS-CoV-2 and the other novel pathogens are not just matters of an infectious agent or clinical course. (globalagriculture.org)
  • Monoculture production - crop and livestock alike - drives the deforestation and development that increases the rate and taxonomic scope of pathogen spillover from wildlife to food animals and the labor that tends them. (globalagriculture.org)
  • Growing up on a livestock farm is associated with higher rates of blood-borne cancers-lymphomas, leukemias-but, growing up on a farm raising only crops was not. (nutritionfacts.org)
  • Diseases affecting domestic animals, livestock, and wildlife. (healthmap.org)
  • Laura is a veterinary epidemiologist specialising in infectious and non-infectious diseases of livestock. (birmingham.ac.uk)
  • The challenges of AMR are particularly problematic in developing African countries given the hardship of disease challenges, alongside livelihoods and living conditions that include numerous close interactions between humans and livestock. (msucares.com)
  • Basically, livestock farming is farming that focuses on raising animals and crops. (yellowflesh.com)
  • In addition, some forms of farming combine crops and livestock, such as mixed farming . (yellowflesh.com)
  • These diseases can have enormous impacts on the humans and livestock they infect. (yellowflesh.com)
  • Economic constraints and changing environmental patterns guided the application of sub-optimal crop practices involving early harvest, poor drying, mixing spoiled with good cereals, and storing cereals in polypropylene bags in confined quarters occupied by humans and livestock, raising risks of aflatoxin contamination. (cdc.gov)
  • Maybe this is just another of the sporadic swine to human cases that have been reported in recent years. (scienceblogs.com)
  • An outbreak of a disease affecting a large number of an animal population temporarily. (cealea.com)
  • The report included and extensive review of the genetics of the newly emergent strain O104:H4 and its parent EAEC, and claimed that "EAEC have rarely been identified in animals, suggesting that they are not zoonotic, but exclusive to humans as a pathogen….The German outbreak strain seems to share virulence characteristics of STEC and EAEC strains. (i-sis.org.uk)
  • Pigeons are generally unhygienic birds and prolific breeders that are harbingers of over sixty diseases. (hollows.info)
  • Bird hunters are advised to be aware of a deadly disease cropping up in wild birds. (ypradio.org)
  • The virus is extremely infectious and highly fatal to domestic poultry, including chickens, ducks and turkeys and to some wild birds. (ypradio.org)
  • The Centers for Disease Control considers the risk of HPAI spreading to humans to be very low, but it's still recommended that hunters take precautions when handling harvested game birds and not touch a sick or dead bird. (ypradio.org)
  • According to Science magazine, the 1918 flu jumped from birds to humans with minimal change, much like today's avian bird flu (February 6). (thetrumpet.com)
  • Avian malaria and haemosporidian parasites are common in birds worldwide, but the consequences of infection on the health of wildlife in the Arctic still remain unknown. (peregrinefund.org)
  • Avian blood parasite prevalence and diversity in wild birds residing on the W. (umaine.edu)
  • Our work showed that birds reared in the more intensive system had poorer welfare, as shown by high rates of endemic disease and general health and leg problems. (ukri.org)
  • We will also determine whether the spread of Campylobacter from the intestine of the birds to edible tissues like liver occurs on farm and if it is linked to poor welfare for endemic disease. (ukri.org)
  • This proposal brings together modellers, microbiologists, molecular biologists, retailers and poultry producers in a unique combination to address global risks to human health associated with interactions between broiler production systems, endemic disease and physiological state of birds. (ukri.org)
  • The basic mechanisms by which pathogenic microbes successfully infect, colonize, and cause disease in their hosts. (psu.edu)
  • Hydroponic production of plants is a multi-billion-dollar industry that allows for year-round production of crops in temperate climates. (umaine.edu)
  • A cow was a great advantage to a villager as she produced more milk than her calf needed, and her strength could be put to use as a working animal , pulling a plough to increase production of crops, and drawing a sledge, and later a cart, to bring the produce home from the field. (wikipedia-on-ipfs.org)
  • He is co-author of Neoliberal Ebola: Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm (Springer, 2016), and Clear-Cutting Disease Control: Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection (Springer, 2018). (globalagriculture.org)
  • Risk factors need to be identified to better understand disease ecology and assist HPAI surveillance and detection. (cdc.gov)
  • Wetlands used for double-crop rice production, where free-grazing duck feed year round in rice paddies, appear to be a critical factor in HPAI persistence and spread. (cdc.gov)
  • On September 28, 2004, the Thai Government launched a nationwide survey (the x-ray survey) to produce a composite picture of HPAI situation in Thailand, reduce disease incidence, and when possible, halt virus circulation. (cdc.gov)
  • Brashares JS, Arcese P, Sam MK (2001) Human demography and reserve size predict wildlife extinction in West Africa. (springer.com)
  • The Manhattan Principles is built on the recognition that modern epidemics stem from the inter-connections between humans, domestic animals, and wildlife, and that these interactions arise either directly from human behavior (eg agricultural practices, clear cutting forests, and eating wildlife), or indirectly, mediated by climate change that is in turn due to human behavior. (drmurielgillick.com)
  • There was a lot of good work done," said Christopher Whittier, a specialist in infectious diseases and wildlife at Tufts University, who was involved in the Predict project. (insideclimatenews.org)
  • Domesticated animals are an important source of pathogens to endangered wildlife populations, especially when anthropogenic activities increase their overlap with humans and wildlife. (cdc.gov)
  • Moreover, recent decades have seen the emergence of several new and terrifying diseases. (drmurielgillick.com)
  • We have many reasons to take climate action to improve our health and reducing risks for infectious disease emergence is one of them. (harvard.edu)
  • Pharmacological studies, molecular biological studies, biological studies, physiological studies, pathological studies, gene studies on treatment and management for these alarming global emergence and re-emergences of infectious diseases are our focuses, too. (hainmc.edu.cn)
  • He has consulted for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (globalagriculture.org)
  • Most of these diseases originate in wild animals whose forest habitats are being destroyed, largely for agriculture and mostly for cattle or the crops used to feed them. (insideclimatenews.org)
  • It will also force agriculture into new areas, as some regions become too hot or wet, which probably will mean yet more conversion of natural habitat into crop land. (insideclimatenews.org)
  • This search "for a better understanding of disease ecology to prevent the spread of old and new plagues," says Jean Lebel, Director of IDRC's Agriculture and Environment program, is an area where the Centre is anticipates achieving new lasting impacts. (idrc-crdi.ca)
  • Infectious disease in humans and in plant and animal agriculture (or in domesticated companion animals) is often the direct consequence of interactions with non-agricultural populations of the same hosts (Cleaveland et al. (springer.com)
  • Avian flu practically decimated the Asian poultry industry. (thetrumpet.com)
  • One of his first research opportunities was with BAE Professor Sanjay Shah and College of Veterinary Medicine Assistant Professor Ravi Kulkarni on a diagnostics development project focusing on avian disease modeling that would be used to prevent infectious diseases in the poultry industry. (ncsu.edu)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • By comparison, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), the site for most of the U.S. epidemic preparedness activities, has a total budget of $6.6 billion, of which $509 million is allocated to "Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. (drmurielgillick.com)
  • In an analysis released Tuesday, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative said that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the "nation's flagship disease fighting agency," has suffered a "slow but corrosive decline in available resources" under the Trump administration, with the yearly budget dropping 4 percent between 2016 and 2019. (insideclimatenews.org)
  • According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), "three out of every four new or emerging infectious diseases in people come from animals. (borgenproject.org)
  • With the global population expected to soar to 11 billion people by 2100, humans will need much more food and much more land to produce it, accelerating the loss of biodiversity that helps shield people from zoonotic disease. (insideclimatenews.org)
  • Burned crops, malnutrition, pneumonia due to aspirated food, sour crop, and bacterial infections are just a few of the issues that arise when inexperienced people take on the responsibility of handfeeding a parrot. (parrotparrot.com)
  • Generally speaking, celebrities and other public figures often have social followings that number in the millions and the emotions that celebrities ignite in their fans allow celebrities to sway opinions and raise awareness on crucial world issues, such as poverty, malnutrition, animal welfare, infectious diseases and environmental challenges. (borgenproject.org)
  • Pigeons suffering from trichomoniasis shed the parasites through the saliva and the crop milk. (hollows.info)
  • It can also be caused by schistosome parasites of non-avian vertebrates, such as Schistosomatium douthitti , which infects snails and rodents . (wikipedia.org)
  • However, the microbial ecology of the faeces of calves, horses and piglets differ from each other and that of human faeces. (i-sis.org.uk)
  • An important ecological question is how different environments can influence infectious disease dynamics. (umaine.edu)
  • Many zoonotic diseases originate in wild animals whose forest habitats are being lost, often for agricultural use like raising and feeding cattle. (insideclimatenews.org)
  • Increasing agricultural yields of staple crops remains, however, an important policy priority of governments in many low-income countries, often specifically motivated by food security concerns. (parisschoolofeconomics.eu)
  • These problems have been just as much a part of our environmental management and agricultural practices as they have our human relations and politics-perhaps more. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Much of her research focuses on the molecular genetic mechanisms of cell division and cell size underlying fruit formation, and her work seeks to help boost the yield and quality of fruit and vegetable crops for the agricultural industry. (uga.edu)
  • The symposium called for an international, interdisciplinary approach to preventing disease, or "One Health, One World. (drmurielgillick.com)
  • In an attempt to narrow down which diseases were associated with which meat, researchers tried separating out those in the pig slaughtering and pork processing. (nutritionfacts.org)
  • Pejman Rohani's research is inherently collaborative, and he says the number and diversity of infectious disease researchers at the University of Georgia creates an extraordinary environment for discovery. (uga.edu)
  • His lab is working to understand the interactions between microbial pathogens and the immune system to lay the foundation for new vaccines and treatments for whooping cough and other communicable respiratory diseases. (uga.edu)
  • The cercariae cannot infect humans, but they cause an inflammatory immune reaction. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, many peer reviewed publications report that EAEC strains are important animal pathogens, which can be readily modified to infect humans. (i-sis.org.uk)
  • A fungus that grows in bird droppings and soil causes histoplasmosis, a disease that affects the lungs. (hollows.info)
  • By the end of 2003, mad cow was competing for headlines with a bird disease from Asia called avian flu. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Many fumes that would not be hazardous to humans and other pets, such as cats and dogs, can kill a bird in a few minutes. (parrotparrot.com)
  • More relationships between bird and human are damaged by improper hand-feeding and socialization during the early weeks of a parrot's life. (parrotparrot.com)
  • The monitoring of archeology in disease search elements: moving diversity from trend standards and streams. (palemoon.com)
  • As such, migrating first-year raptors present a unique opportunity to monitor these emerging infectious diseases in breeding raptor populations in the Arctic because any pathogens found within them were likely acquired on their natal grounds. (peregrinefund.org)
  • Pathogens traverse disciplinary and taxonomic boundaries, yet infectious disease research occurs in many separate disciplines including plant pathology, veterinary and human medicine, and ecological and evolutionary sciences. (springer.com)
  • In addition, plants used for their manufacture are not susceptible to external threats such as avian flu, which can significantly impact the production of egg-based vaccines. (nature.com)
  • These are confined, stressful environments for the animals, and they are highly susceptible to diseases. (yellowflesh.com)
  • The genetic similarities of the animals in factory farms make them highly susceptible to diseases. (yellowflesh.com)
  • And unlike galaxies that require a major wallop to tear apart, humans are fragile things susceptible to disease, famine, war, meteors - really, we're quite pathetic. (typepad.com)
  • Pigeon droppings that are not cleaned up can lead to modest health risks, including one of the following human diseases: Cryptococcosis. (hollows.info)
  • We also keep track of environmental risks (i.e. beach closures due to sewage) and animal diseases (i.e. foxes found with rabies) to provide you a broader picture of diseases in your area. (healthmap.org)
  • Effective isolation of patients was enough to control spread because infected individuals usually do not transmit the virus until several days after symptoms begin and are most infectious only after developing severe symptoms. (wikipedia.org)
  • What diseases can pigeons transmit? (hollows.info)
  • Can pigeons transmit diseases to dogs? (hollows.info)
  • In the 18th century AD, during the French and Indian War, British forces in North America gave blankets from smallpox patients to the Native Americans to transmit the disease to the immunologically naïve tribes. (medscape.com)
  • or humans may have developed a taste for certain types of wild animal, bringing the two species into unaccustomed contact and thus facilitating viral transmission. (drmurielgillick.com)
  • Less demand for animal meat and more sustainable animal husbandry could decrease emerging infectious disease risk and lower greenhouse gas emissions. (harvard.edu)
  • See, by eating fellow animals, we are exposed not only to fellow animal diseases, but to animal tissues that our body may mistake as our own. (nutritionfacts.org)
  • Utilizing animal models of several human diseases including enteric infections and inflammatory bowel disease to determine the cellular targets and molecular signals by which dietary components regulate immunity. (psu.edu)
  • Across the globe, scientists, international health organizations and governments are disturbed at the increasing threat that pervasive animal diseases pose to human civilization. (thetrumpet.com)
  • So why are animal diseases like mad cow and avian flu becoming a growing threat to our health and well-being? (thetrumpet.com)
  • The main cause of the pervasiveness of these animal diseases and environmental degeneration lies within mankind itself. (thetrumpet.com)
  • The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) for their contribution of experts and expertise. (who.int)
  • An approach integrated across the plant-animal divide would advance our understanding of disease by quantifying critical processes including transmission, community interactions, pathogen evolution, and complexity at multiple spatial and temporal scales. (springer.com)
  • For example, genetic variation in host resistance is commonly considered in plant pathology, but is less often explicitly considered in studies of animal diseases. (springer.com)
  • STEC strains usually have an animal reservoir, while EAEC have a human reservoir. (i-sis.org.uk)
  • The E. coli from humans differed significantly in traits and virulence factors from those in the animals, and on that basis, the animal strains were deemed unlikely to cause human infections [8]. (i-sis.org.uk)
  • Most significantly, human EAEC causes diarrhoea and death in animals and animal EAEC may form biofilms on human cells. (i-sis.org.uk)
  • Recent studies found that ducks infected with H5N1 showed few clinical signs of disease ( 3 , 6 , 7 ) but were capable of shedding appreciable amounts of virus and may therefore form a potential reservoir or permanent source of infection. (cdc.gov)
  • The vulnerability to infection that human populations suffer on the receiving end of the spillovers is routinely exacerbated by austerity programs impacting both environmental sanitation and public health. (globalagriculture.org)
  • In an average healthy human this infection only causes slight discomfort, though in immunocompromised patie. (umaine.edu)
  • Introduction: human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection continues to be a public health issue, especially in low- and middle-income countries, including Tunisia. (bvsalud.org)
  • This respiratory disease occurs as a result of a fungus growing in pigeon droppings and can be fatal. (hollows.info)
  • Most of the categories refer to where the disease affects your body, such as Gastrointestinal for cholera or Respiratory for pneumonia. (healthmap.org)
  • Zoonotic diseases-those that spread between animals and humans-represent the biggest proportion of new, emerging diseases like COVID-19, which scientists believe originated in bats. (insideclimatenews.org)
  • Diseases transmitted to people or animals by arthropods including mosquitoes, ticks, flies, and fleas. (healthmap.org)
  • Analysis of GPS tracks indicated that a crop field frequented by both chimpanzees and domesticated animals was a potential hotspot for Cryptosporidium transmission. (cdc.gov)
  • No wonder that nations would spend millions to destroy animals, risking the stability of their economies and rendering thousands of farmers jobless: These diseases have a greater potential for destruction than the public generally realizes. (thetrumpet.com)
  • According to Vegans Against World Hunger , global citizens slaughter about "60 billion land animals and [more than] a trillion marine animals" for human consumption each year. (borgenproject.org)
  • Yet, one in nine people worldwide does not have adequate food to subsist on while "one-third of the world's grain" serves as a source of food for animals farmed for human consumption. (borgenproject.org)
  • If the crops that feed farmed animals are instead distributed for human consumption, there would be enough food to provide each human on earth with 5,935 kilocalories per day - the average person only requires approximately 2,353 kilocalories per day. (borgenproject.org)
  • The organization educates the public on the link between consuming animals (both domestic and wild-caught) and the transmission of zoonotic diseases. (borgenproject.org)
  • Further, by employing a comparative approach that is inclusive of microorganisms, plants, wild and domestic animals, and humans, we will deepen our understanding of disease for all of these fields. (springer.com)
  • The study of plant sexually transmitted diseases also has stimulated increased understanding of sexually transmitted diseases in animals and humans (Lockhart et al. (springer.com)
  • They are used to treat or prevent infections in humans and animals. (msucares.com)
  • As many countries transition to more intensive farming practices, antimicrobial use increases, resulting in an increased risk of antimicrobial resistance in animals and humans. (msucares.com)
  • Zoonotic diseases are diseases that can be passed from animals to humans and from humans to animals. (yellowflesh.com)
  • The factory farm industry is an enormous multinational corporation that reaps financial rewards by exploiting animals and humans. (yellowflesh.com)
  • Husbandry has a long history, starting with the Neolithic revolution when animals were first domesticated , from around 13,000 BC onwards, antedating farming of the first crops . (wikipedia-on-ipfs.org)
  • The EFSA report cited a single reference to a 2004 study - "Absence of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli in farmed animals in Great Britain" [5] - to back up its claim, implying that farm animals and their manure are free of EAEC and only direct human contact is likely to spread EAEC and O104:H4. (i-sis.org.uk)
  • Biological warfare became more sophisticated against both animals and humans during the 20th century. (medscape.com)
  • In this case, high human population density was not anathema for conservation. (springer.com)
  • The quantitative component entailed serial cross-sectional interviews in 250 farming households to examine crop processing and conservation practices, household food storage and consumption, and local understandings of aflatoxins. (cdc.gov)
  • The QIV, which would be the first human plant-derived vaccine on the market, is expected to be available in time for the 2020-2021 Northern Hemisphere flu season, after completion of an ongoing phase 3 efficacy study in 10,000 healthy adults. (nature.com)
  • Results demonstrate a strong association between H5N1 virus in Thailand and abundance of free-grazing ducks and, to a lesser extent, native chickens, cocks, wetlands, and humans. (cdc.gov)
  • Shown are laboratory-confirmed H5N1 cases only, with the dates matching actual detection of clinical disease. (cdc.gov)
  • Chicken meat is the most important source and vehicle for human Campylobacter infections and around 80% of chickens on sale in the UK are Campylobacter-positive. (ukri.org)
  • Changes in the environment that may impact human health (natural/man-made disaster, heat wave, volcanic eruption). (healthmap.org)
  • Currently, the most likely cause of human extinction is a human-caused disaster. (typepad.com)
  • The actual disaster likely to do us in is likely a combination of several kinds: a disaster wipes out most humans, leaves the survivors vulnerable, and then something else makes the situation worse until all are extinct. (typepad.com)
  • The aerosolized "mist of brain" is blamed for dozens of cases of inflammatory neurological disease in workers who started with symptoms as mild as pain, tingling, and difficulty walking, and ended up as bad as having to be put in a coma for six weeks, because of unrelenting seizures. (nutritionfacts.org)
  • Research carried out using ecosystem approaches to human health, pioneered by IDRC in the 1990s, has significantly improved health and welfare around the world. (idrc-crdi.ca)
  • Parademic is the complex, complicated, confusing, contradictory and chaotic human behaviors that occurs in the contexts of existential biosphere calamities. (typepad.com)
  • Stephen Trent joined the College of Veterinary Medicine as the UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor in Infectious Diseases. (uga.edu)
  • However, infectious disease research has been and still is the province of many separate disciplines including veterinary medicine, plant pathology, and human medicine, where these fields are defined by the host organism being studied rather than by the concepts that cut across taxonomic boundaries. (springer.com)
  • The shuttering of the program at USAID is part of a broader pattern in which the Trump administration has attempted to sideline research into zoonotic diseases, like COVID-19. (insideclimatenews.org)
  • When Mahbub ul Haq introduced human development as a compound process which included education and life expectancy, he paved the way for a new avenue of research in development economics. (parisschoolofeconomics.eu)
  • My personal research activity relates to mechanistic cellular and genetic toxicology, toxicogenomics and nanotoxicology in relation to both human health and the health of organisms in the aquatic environment. (birmingham.ac.uk)
  • Her most notable research is on footrot, a complex bacterial disease, that causes poor welfare and production losses in sheep. (birmingham.ac.uk)
  • IDRC's work on the links between environment and human health builds on decades of support for health research. (idrc-crdi.ca)
  • Little research has been devoted to their diet and even less to their ability to utilize human-influenced habitats. (peregrinefund.org)
  • There's probably only one other place in the United States that has the number of faculty who work in infectious diseases that UGA has," said Rohani, one of five new faculty members who joined the university through the Presidential Extraordinary Research Faculty Hiring Initiative. (uga.edu)
  • The other Presidential Extraordinary Research Hires also align with the University's Signature Research Themes of Inquiring and Innovating to Improve Human Health, Safeguarding and Sustaining Our World and Changing Lives Through the Land-Grant Mission. (uga.edu)
  • These advances require more substantial investment in basic disease research. (springer.com)
  • In the past decade, infectious disease research also has captured the full attention of the ecological and evolutionary sciences. (springer.com)
  • Terminological inconsistency is only a symptom of larger divides, and it is clear that bridging these disciplinary and taxonomic gaps to allow true interdisciplinary research efforts will lead to novel insights, important synergistic interactions across fields, and advanced understanding and ability to control infectious disease. (springer.com)
  • During World War II, the Japanese operated a secret biological warfare research facility in Manchuria and carried out human experiments on Chinese prisoners. (medscape.com)
  • The Trump administration ended funding for the project in 2019, along with shelving other key efforts for studying the spread of infectious diseases. (insideclimatenews.org)
  • Clinical disease is common in pigeons that have not been vaccinated, particularly wild pigeons (Coles 2007). (hollows.info)
  • While the influence of the climate on human mobility is undeniable and documented throughout history, the number of people who will leave their region of origin on a permanent basis in the coming years because of the direct or indirect effects of climatic disturbances are difficult to estimate accurately. (parisschoolofeconomics.eu)
  • Here, we ask whether langurs in a large Rajasthani city, Jodhpur, were buffered against drought because humans provisioned them with food-for religious reasons. (springer.com)
  • The plant in question, Nicotiana benthamiana , is a close relative of tobacco indigenous to Australia, has a fast growth rate, is a non-food crop, and is easy to work with. (nature.com)
  • The community's food security has increased and farmers have improved their incomes by selling surplus crops. (idrc-crdi.ca)
  • It does not take into account the ability of these breeds to convert poor-quality forage into human-ed food. (yellowflesh.com)
  • Before the 20th century, biological warfare took three main forms: (1) deliberate poisoning of food and water with infectious or toxic material, (2) use of microorganisms or toxins in some form of weapon system, and (3) use of biologically inoculated fabrics. (medscape.com)
  • Cardillo M, Purvis A, Sechrest W, Gittleman JL, Bielby J, Mace GM (2004) Human population density and extinction risk in the world's carnivores. (springer.com)
  • The rapid nature of our vaccine and therapeutic protein production unlocks many potential ways in which we can better respond to infectious diseases and public health challenges. (nature.com)
  • Diseases contracted or primarily spread in health care settings (i.e. hospitals, nursing homes, etc. (healthmap.org)
  • Three new human H7N9 cases were reported Saturday in China's Zhejiang province, bringing the total number of cases in this province to 20, health authorities said. (daijiworld.com)
  • With the creation of IDRC's Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health program in 1996, a larger range of expertise was brought to bear on a wider spectrum of factors. (idrc-crdi.ca)
  • Moreover, public health concerns negatively impact the daily life activities of human beings. (cealea.com)