Sentences with phrase «of disease transmission»

Everyone is talking about accounting for the economic value of ecosystems and the risks of disease transmission from wildlife to humans in this fast - changing world.

Therefore, if an owner is diligent and is checking their pets (and themselves) twice daily (morning and night) then there is less chance of disease transmission.

This natural avoidance of humans makes the likelihood of disease transmission quite remote.

It might seem like a simple thing, but some best practices will help reduce the possibility of disease transmission in your clinic, especially for highly contagious pathogens.

The diligence of the veterinary medical team regarding prevention of disease transmission is critical to the health of patients, clients, practice, and ourselves.

That is a victory for science and medicine alike: The experiments teach us more about the genetics of disease transmission than ever before.

Spay / neuter procedures provide many benefits feral cats and the community overall with less noise from breeding, reduced feline fighting and fewer instances of disease transmission.

The use of gloves is recommended to reduce the risk of disease transmission to you.

Unfortunately, it's difficult to properly remove a tick, and improper technique increases the likelihood of disease transmission.

While you need to give your puppy early exposure to many different environments, you also want to avoid the possibility of disease transmission.

Poster: The utility of land cover maps to inform spatial epidemic models of disease transmission in the UK livestock industry.

8 In the 17th century, lacking chemical tests (and knowledge of disease transmission mechanisms), Italian physician and autopsist Antonio Valsalva sometimes tasted the fluids he encountered in cadavers in an effort to better characterize them.

The map at the left depicts the number of months where there is a greater than 97.5 percent chance of disease transmission by the mosquito Aedes albopictus, based on the model.

It was Dunbar who began the notion of puppy classes when most veterinarians thought the idea was unnecessary, or even dangerous, for fear of disease transmission.

More specifically, she focuses on the development and use of multidisciplinary approaches, combining data from different sources, to identify the determinants of disease transmission in different ecological settings, providing evidence for the improvement of current control policies, as well as the development of new ones.

Removing ticks quickly is essential; the risk of disease transmission increases the longer a tick feeds from its host.

«There have been a few social network studies in wildlife systems — bees, lions, meerkats, lizards and giraffes — but this is the first paper to map out social networks in the context of disease transmission and conservation for wild primates.»

Marcia Castro's research focuses on infectious diseases (particularly mosquito borne), environmental change and health, environmental management for vector control, spatial patterns of disease transmission, and infant & child mortality.

Will greater human and domesticate animal proximity to wild avian life escalate incidents of disease transmission?

The role of bat parasites in maintaining chains of viral infection is little studied, and the new Wisconsin study serves up some intriguing insights into how viruses co-opt parasites to help do the dirty work of disease transmission.

Such mass gatherings can be hotbeds of disease transmission.

As with HIV, when Ebola progresses, a patient's viral loads inch upward and that boosts the chance of disease transmission via contact with bodily fluids.

Four young Xinane men had entered the village, noted a later medical report, and taken machetes, metal pots, and clothing, the latter a potential source of disease transmission.

Park said the findings point to the importance of considering alternative pathways of disease transmission.

The authors further dissect disease dynamics in terms of host behaviors, parasite life cycles, other seasonal attributes of disease transmission, and stress - mediated susceptibility.

The consensus of dozens of scientists and conservationists is that we can not treat any link in the chain of disease transmission, we need to treat the ferrets directly.

By targeting only the key insect species capable of disease transmission we believe that insecticide spraying can be reduced, to help protect biodiversity in the area.

Rather, sneeze droplets «undergo a complex cascading breakup that continues after they leave the lungs, pass over the lips and churn through the air,» said Bourouiba, who is head of MIT's Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory.

We weren't euthanizing healthy cats, but healthy cats admitted were certainly dying due to the ease of disease transmission that came with our self - imposed overcrowding.

Preventing fleas from parasitizing your pet also keeps your dog free of the discomfort of secondary allergic skin reaction and infection and free of disease transmission from these blood - sucking parasites.

During the conference, Talina Sterneberg, representing FVE - Federation of European Veterinarians, gave a presentation titled «The threat of disease transmission by companion animals: Callisto EU project».

«But in the nature of the case much of the evidence is not such as would convince the bacteriologist,» meaning that it was not really plausible even given the limited understanding of disease transmission of that era.

We don't like them, but we have to appreciate them as scientists because they are very challenging, not only from the aspect of disease transmission, but from the aspect of sheer numbers, adaptation, diseases they carry.

Keep your cat indoors to minimize the risk of disease transmission from ticks, fleas, biting flies, and mosquitoes

When shelters reach the point of overcrowding, it threatens the welfare of all animals in a facility due to stress, weakened immune systems and increased risk of disease transmission.

Infectious disease epidemiologist specializing in the intersection between mathematical models of disease transmission and observational methods.

He adds that the Brazilian government needs to provide better health care in remote indigenous villages such as Simpatia, to help the villagers as well as to reduce the likelihood of disease transmission to isolated groups.

Unfortunately, because of their fear of disease transmission, some veterinarians still caution their clients with puppies to keep their young canines safely at home until fully vaccinated, or at the very least until they have received a minimum of two shots, usually by the age of 12 weeks.

Neutering lowers his urge to roam and to fight, and thus lowers chances of disease transmission and woundings.

If the expressed breast milk is pasteurized, it can be fed to babies to protect them from infections but eliminate the possibility of disease transmission.

The diligence of the veterinary medical team regarding prevention of disease transmission is more...

«Besides the risk of disease transmission and contamination, you could get chalk and water, or breast milk cut with water, and you'd never know.»

Foods that are prepared raw, unclean animal parts, or questionable cooking methods where there is severe risk of disease transmission should be avoided by pregnant moms.

Salt marsh mosquitoes, on the other hand, pose a greater risk of disease transmission, says Andreadis, because they feed on birds about a third of the time and on mammals more than half the time.

«Where human density is high, you get high rates of defaunation, high incidence of rodents, and thus high levels of pathogens, which increases the risks of disease transmission,» said Dirzo, who is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.