What's worse for disease spread: animal loss, climate change or urbanization?
Human activities like climate change, deforestation, and biodiversity loss play significant roles in promoting the spread of infectious diseases like Ebola. [ more ]
Hepatitis E: Spanish researchers discover the largest series of human cases of rat-borne virus
Rat hepatitis E virus (RHEV) discovered in Spain, with unclear transmission but not expected to increase, shedding light on previously unknown hepatitis cases. [ more ]
Social Media and Search Engines Can Now Forecast Disease Outbreaks
The rate of novel pandemics infecting humans is rising, and the risk of outbreaks will triple in the coming decades.
Data scientists are using social media and search engine data to predict the trajectories of infectious diseases and improve pandemic preparedness. [ more ]
Social Media and Search Engines Can Now Forecast Disease Outbreaks
The rate of novel pandemics infecting humans is rising, and the risk of outbreaks will triple in the coming decades.
Data scientists are using social media and search engine data to predict the trajectories of infectious diseases and improve pandemic preparedness. [ more ]
Social Media and Search Engines Can Now Forecast Disease Outbreaks
The rate of novel pandemics infecting humans is rising, and the risk of outbreaks will triple in the coming decades.
Data scientists are using social media and search engine data to predict the trajectories of infectious diseases and improve pandemic preparedness. [ more ]
Medical Freedom' Activists Take Aim at New Target: Childhood Vaccine Mandates
Mississippi has relaxed its strict school vaccination requirements, allowing children to be exempt based on religious objections or health issues.
Medical and religious freedom groups are targeting childhood school vaccine mandates, which have long been considered crucial for protecting against infectious diseases. [ more ]
Medical Freedom' Activists Take Aim at New Target: Childhood Vaccine Mandates
Mississippi has relaxed its strict school vaccination requirements, allowing children to be exempt based on religious objections or health issues.
Medical and religious freedom groups are targeting childhood school vaccine mandates, which have long been considered crucial for protecting against infectious diseases. [ more ]
Medical Freedom' Activists Take Aim at New Target: Childhood Vaccine Mandates
Mississippi has relaxed its strict school vaccination requirements, allowing children to be exempt based on religious objections or health issues.
Medical and religious freedom groups are targeting childhood school vaccine mandates, which have long been considered crucial for protecting against infectious diseases. [ more ]
A Federal Report Shows "Climate-Sensitive" Diseases Are Spreading Through the US
The Fifth National Climate Assessment, released by the U.S. government and climate researchers, highlights the ways in which climate change affects quality of life in the country.
The report breaks down these impacts geographically into 10 regions and forecasts how global warming will influence them in the future.
The report identifies increases in the geographic range of infectious diseases as a health risk from a changing climate. [ more ]