Prescribed Fire Could Reduce Tick Populations and Pathogen Transmission
Prescribed fire could play a role in reducing the abundance of ticks and the transmission of disease pathogens they carry, ...
Tag: Environmental Flux
Breakthrough Results for Dengue Antiviral: Janssen Compound Shows Promise Against All Serotypes
Named one of the top ten threats in 2019 by the World Health Organization, dengue is critically important to global health ...
The First Human Case of Marburg Virus in West Africa Highlights Importance of Quickly Detecting Spillover Events
The first case of fatal Marburg virus disease was identified in Guinea, West Africa on 9 August 2021. Marburg is ...
Every Year is a Bad Tick Year
It’s summer, a time to hike, garden, vacation – and to be on the lookout for ticks. From Lyme disease ...
Germ Hunters in Alberta Discover Rare Fungal Disease
Infectious disease experts at Alberta Precision Laboratories (APL) and the University of Alberta have confirmed that histoplasmosis - a fungal ...
How Health Care Systems Might Better Manage Multiple Natural Disaster, Outbreak Surges
Health care systems could save lives and minimize losses under multiple disasters and waves of COVID-19 by optimizing resource allocation ...
Heading Off The Next Pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic heads for a showdown with vaccines it’s expected to lose, many experts in the field of ...
One Health Day 2020 – Disease Prevention, Public Health and Global Security in Action
One Health Day, held annually on Nov. 3, is an international campaign to engage as many individuals as possible on ...
Light Pollution May Increase Biting Behaviors of Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes
Artificial light abnormally increases mosquito biting behavior at night in a species that typically prefers to bite people during the ...
Emerging Infections Network – Managing Travelers Who Acquire Disease Abroad
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY CDC research activities regarding international travelers at multiple sites are limited. Proposals are now being accepted under a ...
The ‘One Health’ Concept Must Prevail to Allow Us to Prevent Pandemics
It is both a concept, a strategy, and a goal. “One Health” has gradually established itself in the life sciences, ...
Smoke From Wildfires Can Worsen COVID-19 Risk, Putting Firefighters in Even More Danger
Two forces of nature are colliding in the western United States, and wildland firefighters are caught in the middle. Emerging ...
Zoonotic Pressure: Global Urbanization Primes the Path for Pandemics
COVID-19 brought the relation between humans and animals to the core of social and scientific debates. COVID-19 is a zoonotic ...
Bats’ Fierce Immune Systems Drive Viruses To Higher Virulence, Making Them Deadlier in Humans
A new University of California, Berkeley, study finds that bats' fierce immune response to viruses could drive viruses to replicate ...
What Does the Illegal Wildlife Trade Have to Do With Spreading Epidemics?
From live monkeys smuggled through customs to tigers shot or bred for their bones, soaring demand for wildlife, dead or ...
Arctic Ice Melt Lets Deadly PDV Disease Spread from Atlantic
Scientists have linked the decline in Arctic sea ice to the emergence of a deadly virus that could threaten marine ...
Deforestation Leading to More Infectious Diseases in Humans
60 percent of new infectious diseases that emerge in people—including HIV, Ebola , and Nipah, all of which originated in ...
Pakistan: Countrywide Dengue Cases Nearing 50,000
Pakistan's dengue outbreak has set a new record with the number of reported cases surging to 49,587 this year, jumping ...
Warming Weather Patterns Tied to Increased Rate of Infectious Disease
Increasingly frequent warming patterns of weather are tied to increasing rates of infectious disease. 2018 was one of the hottest ...
