Sentences with phrase «global threat to human health»

However, these outbreaks still continue and antimicrobial resistance is becoming a global threat to human health.

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While antibiotic resistance genes are not harmful in themselves, they limit the use of antibiotics for treating bacterial infections and pose a serious threat to global public health if they get transmitted to humans from environmental sources, such as compost.

«Antimicrobial resistance is a global threat to human and animal health with bacteria now resistant to the last - resort antibiotics, including carbapenems and polymyxins,» said corresponding author Ed Topp, PhD, Principal Research Scientist at Agriculture and Agri - Food, Canada, London, Ontario, describing the motivation for the research.

Claverie and Abergel are concerned that rising global temperatures, along with mining and drilling operations in the Arctic, could thaw out many more ancient viruses that are still infectious and that could conceivably pose a threat to human health.

La Jolla, Calif., April 9, 2018 - Obesity is the second - leading preventable cause of cancer and represents one of the greatest threats to global human health.

OTTAWA — Veterinary and human health doctors gathered at the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association's (CVMA) Summit of Veterinary Leaders to share knowledge about antibiotic resistance, one of the most serious global threats to human and animal health in the 21st century.

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Now that the scientific consensus on climate change has been established by the IPCC, perhaps the time has come to reasonably and sensibly address the ominously looming threats to human wellbeing, biodiversity and environmental health that are posed by global warming.

How else can the family of humanity address and overcome the global threats to human and environmental health that are ominously looming even now on the far horizon?

Thirteen of the world's scientific academies have issued joint statements calling on humanity to act meaningfully to curb health risks attending both poverty and prosperity and limit the threat posed by human - driven global warming.

Many of the ecosystem threats to human health are global and will require long - term, trans - boundary solutions, with climate change being the most prominent of those threats.

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... we have political extremists — some of them in our own country — who would have the United States evade and ignore tough issues like global climate change, ozone depletion, or any number of threats to human and environmental health.

Below is one of the «Key Findings» from the report Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States produced by the U.S. Climate Change Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), which was used as a major support for the U.S. Environmental Protections Agency's «Endangerment Finding» that human carbon dioxide emissions are a threat to health and welfare.

Building on its recent update of the physical science of global warming, 1 the IPCC's new report should leave the world in no doubt about the scale and immediacy of the threat to human survival, health, and wellbeing.

Scheduled speakers include some of the nation's best - known global warming skeptics, including Anthony Watts, a television weatherman; Timothy Ball, a former University of Winnipeg professor who has been sued for libel by Michael Mann, a prominent mainstream climate scientist; and Alan Carlin, a former Environmental Protection Agency analyst who claims he was muzzled when he raised questions about the agency's finding that atmospheric carbon dioxide is a threat to human health and the environment.

The Forum on Microbial Threats hosted a public workshop in Washington, DC to consider the possible infectious disease impacts of global climate change and extreme weather events on human, animal, and plant health, as well as their expected implications for global and national security.