Southeast Asia ?Hotspot? for Emerging Infectious Diseases
http://www.asianscientist.com/features/southeast-asia-hotspot-emerging-infectious-diseases-2014/
Now, with unprecedented levels of connection between animals and people through urbanization, and of people with other people through increased air travel, scientists say the threat level for new diseases is high. The US-based Centers for Disease ...
Travel is good for you
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/themes/adventure/9723213/Its-confirmed-Travel-is-good-for-you
Paul Nussbaum, a clinical neuropsychologist and adjunct professor of neurological surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, said the mental benefits are clear and can help stave off such diseases as Alzheimer's. "When you expose your brain to an ...
Travel vaccines only available at public clinics in Abu Dhabi
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/health/travel-vaccines-only-available-at-public-clinics-in-abu-dhabi-1.1281981
?Protecting travellers and pilgrims during their stay abroad is [one of our] top priorities, and we urge travellers to take the necessary precautions, especially before travelling to countries where infectious diseases are prevalent,? said Dr Omar Al ...
Connectivity and emerging infectious diseases in Southeast Asia
http://www.irinnews.org/report/99577/connectivity-and-emerging-infectious-diseases-in-southeast-asia
Now, with unprecedented levels of connection between animals and people through urbanization, and of people with other people through increased air travel, scientists say the threat level for new diseases is high. The US-based Centres for Disease ...
Why This Man Was Refused a New Lung
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/02/why-this-man-was-refused-a-new-lung/283872/
?He had such a sense of right and wrong,? remembers Gaby Moss, executive director of Camp AmeriKids, where Lamont had been both a camper and a counselor for youth living with HIV and sickle cell disease. ?He had such faith in the world. If you do the ...
Jungle Fever: The Exotic Disease Detectives
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25934249
... diagnosis - New World cutaneous leishmaniasis. "When I saw him, I was able to make the connection based on his travel history," says Diana Lockwood, a consultant at the hospital and a professor of Tropical Diseases. Continue reading the main story ...
US announces global partnership to fight infectious diseases
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-announces-global-partnership-to-fight-infectious-diseases/
Especially during this age where worldwide travel is prevalent, he urged nations to work together because any disease overseas could be a threat to residents U.S. soil as well. The Global Health Security Agenda aims to prevent avoidable epidemics by, ...
Mosquito problems here to stay
http://www.enterprisenews.com/article/20140215/NEWS/140217064/1994/NEWS
The Hockomock Swamp is the largest breeding ground in the state for some of the EEE mosquitoes, and the state's mosquito habitats make it easy for the disease to travel from bird to human. ?Massachusetts is certainly unique in that we are actually the ...
