Sentences with phrase «on disease emergence»

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We count very on your highest professional conduct, maximum cooperation and support to prevent, early detect and respond to any emergence or re-emergence of Lassa fever and any other infectious diseases.

Rochelson was part of a New York delegation that attended the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's first major summit on the emergence of Zika virus Friday in Atlanta.

Studies on the origins of BSE — a fatal disease marked in the early stages by loss of balance — gained urgency with the 1996 emergence in humans of the BSE - like new variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (nvCJD).

He has contributed opinions as an expert on vector - borne disease emergence for the European Food Safety Authority and the Global Strategic Alliances for the Coordination of Research on the Major Infectious Diseases of Animals and Zoonoses (STAR - IDAZ), is a member of the MACSUR European network on the impacts of climate change on food production via disease ecology, and is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.

On the other hand, the emergence of new products such as drugs for cancer, HIV / AIDS, and rare diseases, as well as progress in stem cell research, are strong positives in the industry's favor.

These include the ability to bring new, innovative products to the market; progress in oncology, such as the approval of Genentech's drug Avastin for breast cancer and advances in the use of gene therapy, despite some setbacks; continuing progress in research on stem cells; the emergence of treatments for previously untreated diseases; and solutions for food and fuel shortages, such as biocrops and biofuels.

In the new study, a team lead by Isabelle - Anne Bisson, a conservation biologist with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington D.C., set out to assess whether information on wildlife health could be used to predict the emergence of disease in humans.

Even worse, a hallmark of Leishmania biology happens to be its capacity to adapt to a variety of unpredictable fluctuations inside its human host, notably pharmacological interventions, with important consequences on disease outcome as demonstrated by the emergence of drug resistant clinical isolates.

Yet history tells us that the emergence of a new infectious disease that goes on to threaten the health of the global population is a likely scenario.

Future work will also focus on developing methods for collecting data from multiple sources to construct integrated maps of the many different factors that determine disease transmission and the emergence and spread of resistance, such as epidemiological and ecological data.

«Climate change and the emergence of vector - borne diseases in Europe: case study of dengue fever» is published in the journal BMC Public Health on August 22.

In addition to the potential for tick mapping and greater understanding about what is perceived to be a rise in the risks to dogs and people from Lyme Disease, the emergence in four dogs in Essex of babesiosis, a life - threatening disease transmitted to dogs by infected ticks usually found in Europe, has highlighted the need for a major investigation on the scale of the Big Tick Project, says ProfessoDisease, the emergence in four dogs in Essex of babesiosis, a life - threatening disease transmitted to dogs by infected ticks usually found in Europe, has highlighted the need for a major investigation on the scale of the Big Tick Project, says Professodisease transmitted to dogs by infected ticks usually found in Europe, has highlighted the need for a major investigation on the scale of the Big Tick Project, says Professor Wall.

The Influence of Global Environmental Change on Infectious Disease Dynamics is the summary of a workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine Forum on Microbial Threats in September 2013 to explore the scientific and policy implications of the impacts of global environmental change on infectious disease emergence, establishment, and Disease Dynamics is the summary of a workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine Forum on Microbial Threats in September 2013 to explore the scientific and policy implications of the impacts of global environmental change on infectious disease emergence, establishment, and disease emergence, establishment, and spread.