Study tracks diseases brought home by Canadians travelling abroad
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/study-tracks-diseases-brought-home-by-canadians-travelling-abroad-1.1740910
A new study says up to 70 per cent of Canadians who travel abroad, especially to developing countries, return with some sort of illness -- and many of those cases are preventable. The study, published in the journal Open Medicine, looked at 4,365 ...
4 Diseases Making a Comeback Thanks to Anti-Vaxxers
http://time.com/27308/4-diseases-making-a-comeback-thanks-to-anti-vaxxers/
Most people in the U.S. are vaccinated against the measles, but since measles is still around in other countries, those who travel outside of the U.S. can contract it if they are not vaccinated. New York City has not been able to confirm the source of ...
Sick cities: why urban life is breeding new illness fears
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/feb/24/sick-cities-urban-life-illness-fears
Over the last decades, these fears have flared with the Sars virus, avian flu and swine flu, each outbreak prompting new concerns about our ability to prevent and treat disease, at a time of greatly increased drug resistance. While travel hubs in most ...
Ebola Virus Identified as Source of Deadly Epidemic in Guinea
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930103000151
Experts in Guinea had been unable to identify the highly contagious disease, whose symptoms - diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding - were first observed six weeks ago but scientists in the French city of Lyon confirmed it was Ebola, the Guinean health ...
Kidney diseases: Awareness drive launched in south Punjab
http://tribune.com.pk/story/686128/kidney-diseases-awareness-drive-launched-in-south-punjab/
?More than 1,000 volunteers will travel across south Punjab to raise awareness among people about kidney diseases,? Bakhtawar Amin Memorial Trust Hospital, Multan, chairman Mian Rasheed Ahmed said on Friday. He said the volunteers would visit Okara ...
Director, Clinical Development (Vaccines/Pulmonary/Infectious diseases)
http://www.fiercebiotech.com/jobs/job/67052/director-clinical-development-vaccinespulmonaryinfectious-diseases-at-nimbus-search-partners/
A hands-on approach to overseeing clinical trials coupled with a willingness and ability to travel to clinical trial sites. Sound knowledge and expertise in international regulatory requirements, ICH/GCP, and clinical product development. Proven ...
Travel: Indiana farms offer tourists a taste of agricultural life
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/23/6254000/travel-indiana-farms-offer-tourists.html
You'll see animals while you're there, but none of the farm tours involves contact with them because of concerns about diseases that visitors might carry on their shoes, clothing, skin or hair. Germs that don't threaten people or pets could be harmful ...
Including heritage in the toll of Syria's war
http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/editorial/including-heritage-in-the-toll-of-syrias-war
... be compared to the horrendous human toll of the Syrian conflict, regardless of whether it is measured in terms of those killed outright, those who died of starvation, the millions who have been displaced internally and externally, or the generation ...
