Sentences with phrase «closer contact with humans»

Certainly, smaller species are likely to be more abundant and in closer contact with humans, allowing more transmission opportunities.

So even though it might be possible to provide wildcats with the habitat and space they need through small parks connected by wildlife corridors, ultimately such plans wouldn't work because the corridors would probably put the wildcats in closer contact with human settlements.

Deforestation of the Amazon is forcing thousands of bats from their natural habitat and into close contact with humans.

The animals, which live in close contact with humans across the region, carry a wide variety of astroviruses, pathogens that commonly cause diarrhea in people and can also infect the kidney, liver, and brain, researchers report this week in PLOS Pathogens.

He attributes the initial rise of AIDS and the recent outbreaks of SARS to viral strains that mixed and morphed into deadlier forms when their original wild - animal hosts came into closer contact with human butchers and hunters.

Throughout southeast Asia, the widespread practice of rural families raising small flocks of chickens in their backyards brings wild birds into close contact with domestic poultry, which are in close contact with humans.

Like many other companion dog breeds they require close contact with humans.

Not exact matches

It is introduced into humans through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected animals.

Where there is no close contact with infected birds, there's no human disease.

There is very little close human eye or hand contact with each piece.

Until someone with proper expertise in myriad areas of sports science, football coaching, business, finance, law, PR, media, marketing, human resources etc etc has unfettered access to all board meeting minutes, records of all discussions with players, full player medical records, details of all contacts with agents, other clubs, other players, seen copies of player contracts and negotiations, understands the financial imperatives, interprets the business accounting, has reviewed the business plan, has knowledge of the employer / employee contractual relationship between Wenger and the club, has intimate insight in to the goals and objectives of the business and the club — then everyone is filling in the gaps with their own version of events and will necessarily always be a long, long way from anything close to any «truth».

Only when people are packed together, when the immobilized sick are in close contact with the well, does the threat of a human disease factory loom.

This image depicts a single cell experiment in which a human neutrophil was picked up by a micropipette (top panel) and brought into close contact with S. Typhimurium cells immobilized by optical tweezers.

As development pushes humans and wild animals into closer contact, the program's activities continue to expand, often putting it at odds with conservationists.

Close contact with horses is the only way the disease has transmitted to humans but once infected, humans have only a forty percent chance of survival.

Since these birds are often in close contact with both poultry and humans, we investigated their potential role in the spread of H5N1 virus.

A science fiction writer with six unrelated novels about alien - human contact might call it «The Close Encounters Collection.»

Think of kennel cough as a canine cold, transmitted as human colds are transmitted — from an infected individual in close contact with another individual with compromised immunity.

Infectious respiratory diseases, like the cats» flu, the dogs» kennel cough, and our human cold and flu viruses, all thrive with close contact by lots of members of their own species.

Similar to the human flu, the canine influenza virus is highly contagious and is spread through close contact with an infected dog.

«Feral cats», who are not socialized to humans, are essentially wild animals and often experience a great deal of fear and stress when forced to be in close contact with people.

Close contact with containers, such as boxes, appears to have a soothing effect on cats, much like swaddling a human baby.

In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cats are more likely to be reported rabid: «Cats are often in close contact with both humans and wild animals, including those that primarily transmit rabies.»

With Hiring Reform there are tighter closing dates, improved contact between you and human resources, and faster hiring times.

Special Agent, Criminal Investigator AFOSI Detachment 611 — Osan AB, ROK (8/2003 — 8/2004) • Held integral role in the handling of 40 + criminal, fraud, and CI investigations, the largest caseload for AFOSI / Pacific Air Force Command, bringing unit to the highest pro-active rate in 8 years • Collaborated with the Department of Homeland Security and Customs Division in an international fraud case, the first joint effort between these departments and the result of mutual interest coordination avenues between numerous entities • Protected valuable DOD resources and assets by conducting major counterintelligence, criminal, and fraud investigations, including close support through crime scene searches, evidence preservation, and laboratory analysis requests • Testified in court - martials, interviewed key witnesses, and performed interrogations of persons suspected of committing major violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice • Managed and utilized human informants to detect illegal activities as well as conducting undercover investigations • Investigated AFOSI applicant backgrounds to determine suitability for positions in department, also serving as a point of contact for counterintelligence, anti-terrorism, and local criminal awareness briefings on base