This chapter covers emerging zoonotic diseases, with a focus on the current understanding of how and where zoonotic pathogens circulate, their pathways to emergence, potential for sustained human-to-human trans
Don’t put your hands in your mouth after petting or playing with animals. Keep other items that have come into contact with animals out of your mouth. Don’t kiss cats, dogs, chickens, turtles, lizards, or other pets or animals. Don’t let children younger than age five, people wi...
000 deaths in the United States each year [1]. Antimicrobial drug use is considered to be the single most important factor leading to resistance [1]. However, effective policy interventions are hindered by the fact that the emergence and spread of antimicrobial...
Herbicides can run off, are dangerous to handle, and lead to genetically resistant weeds. Power equipment burns fossil fuel and produces CO2. Goats go where people can’t, eat what most animals won’t, and leave behind nothing but fertilizer. Today goats offer an added enterprise to farms an...
Even at the moment of this writing, I received an alert fromCNN that 60+wildfires are burning in Australia. Hundreds of Koala Bears are feared dead. The low humidity (dry air) is fueling them. If the human disaster and toll doesn't affect you, what about Koala Bears and other wildlife...
How to cook lamb As with mutton, how you cook lamb depends on the cut, but the three most popular methods are grilling, braising and roasting. Grilling is great for chops, steaks and burgers, while braising works best for tougher, more flavourful cuts like the shoulder or shank. Roasting...
Sadly, 870 million (one in eight people) on this planet are hungry every day. My parents brought me up to respect food and not waste it. I grew up in a village and we've always had our own animals: chickens, geese, pigs and rabbits. Taking care of them made me appreciate even ...
Viet people used them as draft animals, not for food. Then the French slaughtered cows for beef steaks and the chewy bits inspired pho. Then people just took it in new directions. But the broth is always delicately clear and aromatic. And there are flat rice noodles. Andrea Nguyen says ...
What you’re keepin’ to yourself; why you in such a hurry, nervous? I know what it means to hide. Lithium, this’ll morals. Nine more lithium! We gotta lift, now that once makes you sleep. My sweet swan. Look at him go, to the lake, the ancient lake. There we are. He’s...
(e.g., leather) to makeup. Dietary veganism differs fromvegetarianismin that vegetarians may choose to consume some animal-derived foods such as milk, eggs, andhoneyon the grounds that animals do not need to be slaughtered to obtain these products. Veganism is motivated by a variety of ...