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«There is no doubt in my mind that climate change will have a major impact on the spread of infectious diseases,» writes Edward Holmes, a scientist whose work focuses on emerging diseases at Sydney Medical School in Australia, in an email to Pacific Standard.

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In other words, she says, personality constructs emerging from the basic biology of the brain can be yet another marker that the individual is at risk for TILT, and easier to sensitize to the disease.

In research that has implications for diabetes and other metabolic diseases, an international study based at UT Southwestern Medical Center found that the protein connexin 43 (Cx43) forms cell - to - cell communication channels on the surface of emerging beige fat cells that amplify the signals from those few nerve fibers.

No one know how many birds succumb each year to the wildlife trade since much of the trafficking is illegal, but within Southeast Asia alone, it is likely «in the order of tens of millions,» says Kelly Edmunds, a researcher at the University of East Anglia in England who investigates the emerging infectious diseases amongst bird sellers in Asia and was not involved in the study.

As someone who's been at the forefront of unraveling emerging infectious diseases and the mechanisms of pandemics, what keeps you up at night?

The research fits neatly into an emerging paradigm that helps explain a recent alarming increase in food allergies and other conditions, such as obesity and autoimmune disease, and hints at strategies to reverse the trend.

A poliolike ailment appears to have struck cattle in Kansas in the early 1950s, says Jack Woodall, an emerging - diseases expert at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

While the new discovery confirms scientists» ideas about the evolution of disease, the worrying implication is that the same process could cause other virulent strains of cholera to emerge at any time.

Scientists at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute have identified natural human antibodies against the virus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a step toward developing treatments for the newly emerging and often - fatal disease..

Basically 75 percent of all the emerging diseases come from animals, and the seminar which brought together a group of diverse researchers, tried to look at what we can do to better contain or spot potential outbreaks.

Disease wiki The site excels at natural - language processing, says Larry Madoff, founder and editor of the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED), a global electronic mailing list that receives and summarizes reports on disease outbreaks and that was one of HealthMap's first sources oDisease wiki The site excels at natural - language processing, says Larry Madoff, founder and editor of the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED), a global electronic mailing list that receives and summarizes reports on disease outbreaks and that was one of HealthMap's first sources odisease outbreaks and that was one of HealthMap's first sources of data.

These findings, which appear online in Emerging Infectious Diseases, may contribute to improved clinical surveillance of those at highest risk of disease.

Individuals previously infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) who receive chemotherapy or immunosuppressive treatment may be at risk of reactivating the disease according to a summary of report from the Emerging Trends Conference, «Reactivation of Hepatitis B,» and published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.

These include functioning successfully in their lives before the disease emerged; experiencing severe symptoms suddenly, all at once, rather than little by little; being older when the disease appeared; being female; having a higher IQ; and lacking a family history of the disorder.

«These results are highly relevant to clinical inflammatory bowel diseases because GMSCF - impaired function is now emerging as one of the best predictors of IBD severity,» said the study's senior author, Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, Professor in the Department of Oncological Sciences, the Tisch Cancer Institute and the Immunology Institute, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

With skin cancer emerging as one of the world's most prevalent forms of cancer, researchers are using every tool at their disposal to fight this disease.

Following the largest Ebola epidemic in history last year, which claimed the lives of more than 11,000 people in West Africa and ultimately spread to the U.S., public health officials remain concerned about healthcare workers contracting Ebola or other emerging infectious diseases such as SARS and pandemic influenza, says Rachael Jones, UIC associate professor of environmental and occupational and health sciences, one of four co-investigators at UIC.

The University of Illinois at Chicago has been selected as one of six research centers in the U.S. to help develop a comprehensive new strategy to control Ebola and other emerging infectious diseases in health facilities.

The UIC Epicenter for Prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections will study how healthcare workers can care for patients with emerging infectious diseases without putting themselves at risk.

Since the team finished their analyses, at least two new zoonotic diseases have emerged — the H7N9 avian influenza strain and Middle East respiratory syndrome.

The surge in human cases is cause for alarm, says Guan Yi, an expert in emerging viral diseases at the University of Hong Kong in China.

«It will certainly lead to boring names and a lot of confusion,» predicts Linfa Wang, an expert on emerging infectious diseases at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong.

«There's an emerging theme in Alzheimer's genetics that the immune system may be strongly involved in the onset of Alzheimer's disease,» said co-corresponding author Philip De Jager, MD, PhD, who directs the Program in Translational NeuroPsychiatric Genomics at the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at BWH.

Laboratory safety emerged as a prominent issue in China in 2004, when a series of missteps at China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention led to a renewed outbreak of severe acute respiratory sickness (SARS).

Mariette: You raise a fascinating area of what some people have looked at the moral responsibilities that we have as well, especially around emerging diseases or fast - moving diseases and the need to understand them scientifically, where we know for a fact, as you've said, we can mitigate some symptoms, but we're also trying to gather data so that we make sure our therapeutics are very sound.

When an unknown virus emerges at various locations in the world, scientists focus on answering the following questions: Where did the new disease originate?

In an emerging disease research lab at the University of Washington, Chris Williams, a research scientist who specializes in microbiology laboratory robotics, programs a piece of equipment that can be programmed to performs many lab tasks.

Still, «the ban could hamper our ability to learn about the epidemiology of neglected diseases emerging out of conflict zones», says infectious disease expert Peter Hotez at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

«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.

Held at MSU Denver, the conference will welcome a variety of speakers and panelists to discuss the issue in detail, with a special emphasis on water as well as new emerging diseases.

This year's Action Award honorees include global leaders in the fight to end cancer as we know it; a world leader in advancing the emerging field of regenerative medicine and game - changing cell therapy medical treatments; the president of a non-profit group focused on developing cures for chronic, debilitating and fatal diseases; a sickle cell and stem cell advocate and founder / science administrator of the Axis Advocacy; and the founding director of the Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Japan's Kyoto University.

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...

She moved to Bethesda, MD, where she studied emerging infectious diseases at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Emerging evidence suggests the feeding problems and dietary patterns associated with autism may place this population at risk for long - term medical complications, including poor bone growth, obesity and other diet - related diseases (e.g., cardiovascular disease) in adolescence or adulthood.

«This gift that creates the Alpern Fund provides a beacon of hope for millions of individuals who suffer from devastating diseases that might be eliminated by novel treatments that we believe will emerge from stem cell research,» says James Douglas Engel, a professor of Developmental Biology at the UofM Medical School and chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.

From trillions and trillions of data points generated by analyzing human genomes at the most basic levels, Carter is using a new, powerful mathematical approach to identify biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease, before symptoms emerge.

Significant epidemiological and clinical evidence has emerged that suggests AD belongs among the «diseases of civilization,» primarily caused by modern Western diets and lifestyles at odds with human physiology.

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According to the AVMA, the dog flu is highly contagious and all dogs are at risk of contracting the virus because it «is still an emerging disease» in the United States and dogs lack immunity to it.

Newspaper articles, TV reports, and the newly emerging blogosphere were replete with horror stories about conditions at shelters and gut - wrenching testimonials from bereaved pet owners whose animal had died in a shelter because of unchecked disease or clerical error.

The Golden Retriever Lifetime Study is a great opportunity to look closely at infectious disease patterns over time, including emerging infectious diseases

An eye disease called pigmentary uveitis is of emerging concern in the breed, and while it is believed to have a genetic basis, at this time there are no satisfactory tools that breeders can use to be certain to avoid producing affected puppies.

«Veterinary medicine is at the forefront of issues facing our world, from food safety to conserving our natural environment, from emerging infectious agents to diseases like cancer that can affect both humans and animals.

Named research chairs have been established at OVC in: Reproductive Technologies; Pathology; Infectious disease / Public Health; Disease Modeling; Dairy Health Management; Companion Animal Clinical Nutrition; Companion Animal Welfare; Communications; and Emerging Technologies and Animal disease / Public Health; Disease Modeling; Dairy Health Management; Companion Animal Clinical Nutrition; Companion Animal Welfare; Communications; and Emerging Technologies and Animal Disease Modeling; Dairy Health Management; Companion Animal Clinical Nutrition; Companion Animal Welfare; Communications; and Emerging Technologies and Animal Health.

The recent world (e.g., bats, bees, amphibians, corals) is showing us that there are far more pernicious forces at work, viz., emerging infectious diseases, climate change, agrochemicals.

If you want to see what a lost public - health opportunity looks like and don't mind experiencing a wave of frustration, please read «Dengue, Urbanization and Globalization: The Unholy Trinity of the 21st Century,» a chilling 2011 paper by Duane J. Gubler, professor and founding director of the emerging infectious disease program at the Duke - NUS Medical School in Singapore.

It's unknown exactly how the disease emerged — possibly via a thawed reindeer carcass or human remains at a crumbling, above - ground cemetery that's typical of the region.

The majority of emerging diseases come from wildlife,» said Katherine Smith, who is also a senior consultant at Wildlife Trust.

In addition to habitat loss, a strange disease has emerged, threatening at least one species» survival.

Spurling told a recent conference that he should have known better but he had expected a discrete biomedical issue like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or even dental health to emerge as a single priority from his research at the Inala Indigenous Health Service.