Sentences with phrase «disease threats»

The importance of a robust public health infrastructure is the cornerstone for preparing for and responding to infectious disease threats regardless of their origin (natural or man - made).

In addition to core vaccinations aimed at the most common disease threats, our vet center can also provide other situation - specific vaccinations for at - risk animals.

The perspective concludes that modern vaccine technology and improved surveillance in developing countries ultimately can help us better prepare for emerging infectious disease threats.

«Many recommendations are given, among which is the division of disease threats into categories based on their means of transmission, namely respiratory, blood - borne, vector - borne and food - borne, and the production of a separate protocol for each.

The findings hint at new disease threats, the beginnings of agriculture, the reason for Pygmies» short stature, and intermarriage with an unknown species.

The American Veterinary Medical Association (1) considers canine distemper to be the greatest single disease threat to the world's dog population.

This article was originally published with the title «Is the U.S. Ready for Future Disease Threats?»

«The Army was able to move so quickly in developing, manufacturing and testing a Zika vaccine because of its extensive experience with this vaccine platform and long standing investments in the understanding and mitigation of flaviviruses, like yellow fever, dating back to the founding of WRAIR,» said Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad, Zika program co-lead and associate director for Emerging Infectious Disease Threats at WRAIR's MHRP.

How can science diplomacy be used as a foundation for improving capacity, knowledge and networks to detect, predict and mitigate disease threats?

Speakers at «Global Science to Protect our Global Farm» demonstrated the importance of transatlantic, cutting - edge science to address international disease threats to global food systems.

THE blight that triggered the great famine in Ireland in 1845 is still the biggest disease threat to spuds worldwide — and it's no wonder.

Now a consultant to the National Defense University in Washington DC, Reed adds that the programme has become the archetype within the defence department for the «development of treatments for biologically engineered and naturally occurring disease threats».

«Mosquito species and their associated disease threats, which were once confined to a single geographic area are now of global concern, because they have hitchhiked on our worldwide transport networks,» said Owen McMillan, STRI staff scientist.

After Ebola, a new global body is needed to contain future major disease threats.

Eisen also said that while rising temperatures caused by climate change could bring the mosquito farther north in the United States, the many elements that influence the mosquito itself and the transmission of dengue virus argue strongly against looking solely at climate to assess disease threat.

With a baseline of what diseases are present in the snow leopards, a clearly defined protocol for surveillance can be tailored so that monitoring will avoid wasting resources and causing undue stress to the animals while identifying potential disease threats in ample time for appropriate action.

Educate pet owners regarding preventive care, seasonal risks, region - specific disease threats, pet product recalls

Thanks to the development of vaccines, dogs and cats have been protected from numerous disease threats, including rabies, distemper, hepatitis and several others.

Horses travel more than ever before, and whether traveling down the road or across the country, travel or exposure to horses that do can leave your horse at risk for additional disease threats.

What is the greatest infectious disease threat we face these days?

For now, the most effective way to combat this new disease threat is through traditional carnivore conservation approaches; reducing hunting and protecting habitat.

According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, distemper is the «greatest single disease threat to the world's dog population.

To be better prepared next time, the UK needs a plan that identifies top emerging disease threats and outlines courses of action, the report says.

«It is inevitable that there will be another disease threat somewhere in the world in the future,» says Jimmy Whitworth of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Novel vaccine technologies are critical to improving the public health response to infectious disease threats that continually emerge and re-emerge, according to scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.

He pointed to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic as an example of a case in which local reporting helped to bring an emerging disease threat to global attention.

The idea of an all - purpose fungicide did not sit well with many scientists, who wrote that it «invites increased, widespread use of this product... The environmental and biological impact of these uses in the absence of a disease threat may be considerable.»

Novel vaccine technologies are critical to improving the public health response to infectious disease threats that continually emerge and re-emerge, according to scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part...

NIAID global research helps to protect the United States against infectious disease threats and to improve the health of millions of people around the world, promoting international economic and political stability.

Lectures will also address clinical response to infectious disease threats, including diagnostics, prevention, treatment and ethics.

This is one message in a new report summarising the discussions of the Uppsala Health Summit on the theme of Tackling Infectious Disease Threats: Prevent, Detect and Respond with a One Health Approach, which took place in October last year.

Toxoplasma is a significant cause of mortality in threatened Southern sea otters, which serve as sentinels for disease threats to people and animals in coastal environments.

«These animals pose a disease threat as well as a predatory threat and the solution is the same in each part.

Targeted application of the tools available in all spectrums of veterinary medicine can play a role in continuing to make these diseases a threat of the past.

Surprisingly, coyotes are not considered a disease threat.

Raccoons can carry distemper and rabies and can be a disease threat to a pet dog.

Squirrels don't pose a disease threat to dogs and they bring excitement into pet lives.

Opossums are unlikely to be a disease threat to pets but they are slow - moving and easier to catch than raccoons or squirrels.

The blog is also a great place to learn about dangers of environmental toxins, infectious disease threats, as well as nutritional and herbal remedies.

Monitoring foxes via radio telemetry collars has also provided early identification of predation or disease threats.

f) «Global health security» refers to activities required, both proactive and reactive, to minimize vulnerability to acute public health events that endanger the collective health of populations living across geographical regions and international boundaries and includes the efforts of the Global Health Security Agenda to establish capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to disease threats, whether naturally occurring, deliberate, or accidental.

Public preferences for interventions to prevent emerging infectious disease threats: a discrete choice experiment