emerging infectious diseases

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• Tanzanian project seeks to hold back spread of diseases from animals to humans

  
  TropIKA — Authority: 127
  Zoonoses are diseases of animals that can be transmitted to people. Examples include anthrax, bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis, fascioliasis, hydatid disease and rabies. Collectively they are significant causes of sickness and death in humans, particularly in poor communities, but very little funding is devoted to ...
  6 days ago

• Flu in Africa: how little we know

  
  TropIKA — Authority: 127
  A PLoS Medicine essay points out that very little information is available about influenza in Africa. As in other parts of the tropical world, flu can occur at any time of the year but there are no reliable figures on its prevalence and incidence. As it may be hard to distinguish flu from other diseases that cause ...
  1 week ago

• How climate change will hurt Uganda

  
  TropIKA — Authority: 127
  Africa’s media are taking a keen interest in the Copenhagen climate change. See, as an example, an excellent article on AllAfrica.com , which examines the likely impact of climate change on human and animal diseases in Uganda. Author Frederick Womakuyu spoke to experts on health and environment based in Uganda, ...
  3 weeks ago

• New study finds MRSA on the rise in hospital outpatients

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 617
  Washington, D.C. -- The community-associated strain of the deadly superbug MRSA -- an infection-causing bacteria resistant to most common antibiotics -- poses a far greater health threat than previously known and is making its way into hospitals, according to a study in the December issue of Emerging Infectious ...
  4 weeks ago

• New study finds MRSA on the rise in hospital outpatients

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  (Burness Communications) The community-associated strain of the deadly superbug MRSA -- an infection-causing bacteria resistant to most common antibiotics -- poses a far greater health threat than previously known and is making its way into hospitals, according to a study in the December issue of Emerging Infectious ...
  5 weeks ago

• New study finds MRSA on the rise in hospital outpatients

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 157
  (Burness Communications) The community-associated strain of the deadly superbug MRSA -- an infection-causing bacteria resistant to most common antibiotics -- poses a far greater health threat than previously known and is making its way into hospitals, according to a study in the December issue of Emerging Infectious ...
  5 weeks ago

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