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View Post: ENY-740/IN722: Emerging Infectious Diseases
19 Jun 2007
Infectious diseases are illnesses caused by the presence and activity of one or more pathogenic agents including viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites and abnormal proteins called prions. .... General symptoms of prion disease include loss of motor control, dementia, paralysis, wasting, and eventually death. Prions are thought to be responsible for scrapie, mad cow disease, and chronic wasting disease of animals, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) ...
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View Post: Infectious Diseases Today: A potentially fatal parasite first seen ...
26 Nov 2009 by Robert Herriman  
He had diarrhea for 3 weeks prior to admission to the Philippine General Hospital, Manila. He suffered from chronic alcoholism, recurrent ascites, emaciation, and cachexia and died a week after hospitalization. ... My interests and passions are infectious diseases and their effect on public health. Parasitology, neglected tropical diseases, food borne illness, STIs, and the list goes on and on... I have a Master of Public Health in Tropical Public Health and Communicable ...
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View Post: Managing Tilapia Health In Commercial Systems
18 Nov 2009
In general, there are six to 10 specific diseases for each animal species. In new farming systems, we have found that infections usually require two to five years to become fully established. Effective prevention and control of disease .... We also found one viral disease (iridovirus) and several important external protozoal and monogenetic parasitic infections including Trichodina spp. and Gyrodactylus spp. Non-infectious diseases generally result from non-living causes; ...
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View Post: Malaria - Encyclopedia of Earth
24 Apr 2008
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by a parasite. Each year 350-500 million cases of malaria occur worldwide, and over one million people die, most of them young children in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of .... They often face excessive patient loads, and must divide their attention between malaria and other equally severe infectious diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhea, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS. ...
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View Post: Toxoplasmosis in Dogs
25 Nov 2009
Being a general condition, toxoplasmosis spreads systematically and affects various physiological systems. The severity of the disease depends upon the number of parasitic species infesting the dog. Diagnosis is based upon a review of clinical ... The pathogenesis of toxoplasmosis shows that three different infectious stages can occur, i.e. tachyzoites, bradyzoites and sporozoites. Transmission of these infectious stages is possible if a healthy dog either eats raw meat ...
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View Post: How environmental degradation harms humanity
20 Nov 2009 by info@ecologicalinternet.org (Telegraph:...  
Do felling forests, slaughtering wildlife, cramming animals into inhuman factory farms, and the general trashing of the natural world make you sick? There's growing evidence that environmental degradation increases the spread of killer ... But the report, Global Environmental Change; the Threat to Human Health, also examines a much more recently investigated phenomenon: the boomerang effect of direct assaults on nature, as infectious diseases wing back to plague the ...
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View Post: Human/animal overlap: is their a health risk?
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25 Nov 2009 by admin   ...
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View Post: Molluscicidal activity of some Solanum species extracts against ...
20 Nov 2009 by petsourc  
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease that affects 200 million people in different countries; and frequently referred to as the second most important parasitic disease after malaria among the infectious diseases of tropical and subtropical countries, and the third most prevalent parasitic .... Conclusion As in general, the results of solanum species extracts indicates that the three species share in possessing a molluscicidal activity against the snail B. alexandrina. ...
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View Post: tmo_2007_10K
30 Nov 2009
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View Post: Revista de Saúde Pública - Chronic diseases, self-perceived health ...
27 Nov 2009
... conducted in Brazilian capitals between 1930 and 1980 reported a shift in the mortality trends from the mid-1960s with marked reduction of mortality rates due to infectious and parasitic diseases and increased CNCD including cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.9 ..... Nonetheless, even in countries with wide telephone coverage, respondents of telephone surveys have different characteristics compared to general population, especially regarding income and schooling. ...
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