Sentences with phrase «emerging diseases come»

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

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.

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EPIDEMICS • Transportation officials and public health experts are pilot testing a Web site that calculates the risk that passengers coming off any given flight are carrying an emerging infectious disease.

«The only way to prevent emerging diseases from coming to the US is to stop them in their tracks in the countries where they arise,» he says.

[W] hat's striking about diseases emerging in recent decades, of which over 70 percent have come from wildlife, is that we ourselves are driving their appearance in humans.