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Ixodes ricinus ticks are an important vector and reservoir of pathogenic microorganisms causing dangerous infectious diseases in humans and animals. The presence of ticks in urban greenery is a particularly important public health concern due to the ...
Pańczuk Anna +2 more
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Evaluation of the Effect of Isolation in the Modeling of Smallpox Epidemic Development in Megacity
Deliberate infecting of large groups of people with particularly dangerous infectious diseases agents as a result of bioterrorist attacks is still considered as an actual risk factor.
L. F. Nizolenko, A. G. Bachinsky
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Objective of the study is to substantiate the possibility to assess local/regional resource capacity needed for a large-scale epidemic response as concerns emerging infectious diseases caused by pathogenic agents of particularly dangerous infections ...
L. F. Nizolenko, A. G. Bachinsky
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Public Transportation: Perceptions of Filth Contributing to Poor Health [PDF]
Public transportation vehicles such as trains or buses have a reputation as unsanitary. Many riders of public transit are concerned with the health risks they are facing in regards to contagion.
Bernard, Dashka
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Rebuilding health care in Iraq [PDF]
The effects of three wars within 25 years, a decade of international sanctions, and a brutal regime have had tragic consequences on Iraq’s health system and on the health of the Iraqi people.
Furber, A.S., Johnstone, P.
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Bird flu, avian influenza : the H5N1 virus, poultry, other animals, and people here and elsewhere, from Asia to Africa [PDF]
Illustré d'une trentaine de photographies originales issues des missions de terrain des vétérinaires et ornithologues du Cirad dans les pays du Sud, le livret fait le point sur ce fléau qui a d'abord frappé les pays du Sud-Est asiatique depuis 1997 ...
Albina, Emmanuel +20 more
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The Growing Threat of Agroterrorism and Strategies for Agricultural Defense [PDF]
Due to the dynamic nature of human conflict, non-traditional terror tactics have evolved to undermine the socioeconomic stability of targeted societies.
Forrest, Alyssa
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Here, we review summarized epidemiological data and analyze the situation on infectious diseases in the countries of the Indo-West-Pacific region that require measures for sanitary protection of the territory of the Russian Federation. The main source of
Aleksandra V. Ivanova +10 more
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Biomedical Community and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention [PDF]
YesNegotiations to find a legally binding way to strengthen the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) of 1972 [1]are in danger of failing. The crisis was precipitated during the current round of talks, now in its final week in Geneva, when ...
Dando, Malcolm R., Whitby, Simon M.
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