4“They will die of terrible diseases, and no one will cry for them or bury them. Their bodies will lie on the ground like dung. They will die in war, or they will starve to death. Their bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals.” ...
Public health services can prevent premature death from epidemics such as the plague, cholera, and many other infectious and environmentally determined diseases; and enhance the quality of life. Public health is among the most important institutions of organized societies, almost entirely responsible for...
It turns out that the number of people an organism can kill annually has nothing to do with size or big teeth but with its ability to spread infectious diseases. Most of the time, animals we think of as very dangerous are actually not. For instance, manypeople think sharksare very dangero...
"[Soldiers] grew so miserable and apathetic that they stopped eating and showed signs of clinical depression, and because of lack of hygiene and medicine, they contracted diseases that killed them off," he said. "Nostalgia is more often a predisposing cause to their death – but the doctors ...
These little guys SEEM harmless, and small.. .but they're difficult to kill, and can carry some gnarly diseases. If you're unfortunate enough to get bit by one carrying lyme disease, best get yourself to the hospital, quick. Fowlers Toad ...
Authors' information James Ward, a Pitjantjatjara Nurrunga man, is the Head of Infectious Diseases Research Program-Aboriginal Health at the South Australian Health and Med- ical Research Institute. L. Clair Jackson is Ugarapul/Githabal (Jagara Nation, SE Qld) on her father's side and ...
Screens on windows, and people in general protecting themselves, mosquito control programs, all work to keep the plasmodium from existing in this country. Other vector borne diseases have been introduced into the US by travellers and stowaway mosquito’s, but have rarely spread. Mosquito’s...
Asdoctorsandbiologistsspecializing in infectious diseases, we have studied these and other zoonoses as they spread in Africa, Asia and the Americas. We found thatdeforestation has been a common theme. More than half of the world's tropical deforestation is driven by four commodities: beef, soy,...
Dr. Shamez Ladhani, a professor of pediatric infectious diseases and vaccinology at St. George’s University of London, wrote that masking may help reduce Covid-19 transmission when used with other “infection control measures, but I have yet to see any convincing evidence that masking in and...