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Social Media Is a Threat for Democracy! A Political Perspective for Analysing and Diminishing Harm

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Social media platforms, once hailed as potential champions of dialogue, have evolved into commodified spaces in which their business models incentivize hate speech, misinformation, polarization, and the political fragmentation of society, benefiting corporate and political elites while eroding democracy.
Itziar Castelló, Elanor Colleoni, Andreas Georg Scherer, Hannah Trittin‐Ulbrich   +3 more
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Generics favor stability

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Humans seek to predict, explain, and control their environments. Generalizations—like those expressed by “children like candy” and “cigarettes cause cancer”—provide one resource to facilitate these tasks. We develop a proposal tying the acceptability judgments of generics to the psychological functions of generalizations.
Katherine Ritchie, Ny Vasil
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Active Surveillance of Powassan Virus in Massachusetts Ixodes scapularis Ticks, Comparing Detection Using a New Triplex Real-Time PCR Assay with a Luminex Vector-Borne Panel

Viruses
Powassan virus is an emerging tick-borne pathogen capable of causing severe neuroinvasive disease. As the incidence of human Powassan virus grows both in magnitude and geographical range, the development of sensitive detection methods for diagnostics and
Guang Xu, Eric Siegel, Nolan Fernandez, Emily Bechtold, Timothy Daly, Alan P. Dupuis, Alexander Ciota, Stephen M. Rich   +7 more
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Come together: Data sharing to support one health responses to vector‐borne disease threats

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
A One Health framework integrating diverse data across human, animal and environmental sectors is essential for effective surveillance and response is vital for responding to vector‐borne disease risks. Communities adopting global data standards, depositing data in shared repositories, and responsible data use can significantly improve VBD data ...
Francis Windram, Sarah Kelly, Stanislav Modrak, Isabelle Dietrich, Corrado Minetti, Karen L. Mansfield, Frederik Seelig, Adam M. Fisher, Maisie Vollans, Nina Billows, Fahad Ahmed, Marta Shocket, Susana Campino, Scott Tytheridge, Sara L. Gandy, Estela Gonzalez, Jolyon M. Medlock, Matthew Baylis, Grant L. Hughes, David A. Ewing, Bethan V. Purse, Georgia Kirby, Clare Strode, Arran J. Folly, David Starns, Heather Ferguson, Simon Smith‐Mullally, Helen Roberts, Christopher M. Jones, Hannah Rose Vineer, Marion England, Christopher Sanders, Samraat Pawar, William D. Pearse, Steven M. White, Robert T. Jones, Lauren J. Cator   +36 more
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Biology of tick-borne encephalitis virus.

Acta virologica, 1997
Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus is an important human pathogen belonging to the genus Flavivirus within the family Flaviviridae. The genome of the TBE virus is a single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) molecule of positive polarity encoding all the viral proteins within a single open reading frame (ORF).
M, Gresíková, M, Kaluzová
openaire   +1 more source

Ixodid Tick Dissection and Tick Ex Vivo Organ Cultures for Tick-Borne Virus Research. [PDF]

Curr Protoc Microbiol, 2020
Grabowski JM, Kissinger R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Tick-borne encephalitis and differential diagnosis

Annales Academiae Medicae Silesiensis
Introduction: Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is an infection caused by the tick-borne encephalitis virus transmitted to humans by tick bites. The prevalence of TBE is between 10,000 and 15,000 cases annually and is comparable in Europe and Asia.
Patrycja Ochman-Pasierbek, Przemysław Olczyk, Magdalena Matlakiewicz, Justyna Paprocka, Adrianna Kalinowska-Doman   +4 more
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Identifying target cells for a tick-borne virus that causes fatal hemorrhagic fever. [PDF]

J Clin Invest, 2020
Yamaoka S, Weisend C, Ebihara H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Eco‐Epidemiological Study of Seropositivity Against Rickettsia and Leptospira Agents in Rural Areas of Urabá, Colombia

Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Rickettsioses and leptospirosis are infectious diseases often underdiagnosed due to limited knowledge about their epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical aspects. Objectives To characterize the seroprevalence and seroincidence of Rickettsia and Leptospira agents and determine their associated factors in rural areas of Urabá ...
Mariana Torres‐Bustamante, Omar Cantillo‐Barraza, Albert I. Ko, Elsio A. Wunder Jr, Juan C. Quintero‐Vélez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An international study on emerging arboviral infections and blood safety

Transfusion, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Emerging and re‐emerging arboviral infections are a risk to blood safety. We conducted an international survey on how blood establishments respond to current and future arbovirus threats. Study Design and Methods A questionnaire on arbovirus donor deferral strategies, pathogen reduction, and donation screening was distributed to ...
Piya Rajendra, Helen M. Faddy, Daniel Candotti, Carolina B. Bub, Jose M. Kutner, Steven J. Drews, Carmen L. Charlton, Sheila F. O'Brien, Wai‐Chiu Tsoi, Michel‐Andres Garcia‐Otalora, Claire Reynolds, Tuulia Palukka, Riikka Lehtisalo, Ruth Offergeld, Axel Seltsam, Marijke Weber‐Schehl, Nahid Chenarsabz, Naoko Goto, Sung‐Chan Park, So‐Yong Kwon, Ryanne Lieshout‐Krikke, Aneta Kopacz, Ewa Sulkowska, Oana‐Alexandra Șerban, Simona Ruta, Eugene Zhiburt, Maha Badawi, Josephine Mitchel, Ute Jentsch, Ángel Luis Pajares Herraiz, Ana Lafuente Guijosa, Gülşen Özkaya Şahin, Christoph Niederhauser, Marion C. Lanteri, Brian Custer, Galen Conti, Anthea Cheng, Shannah Secret, Peter Simmonds, Heli Harvala, on behalf of the Virology subgroup of the ISBT WP‐TTID   +40 more
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