disease spreading Articles
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Significance of fomites in the spread of respiratory and enteric viral disease
Worldwide annually there are 1.7 million deaths from diarrheal diseases and 1.5 million deaths from respiratory infections (56). Viruses cause an estimated 60% of human infections, and most common illnesses are produced by respiratory and enteric viruses (7, 49). Unlike bacterial disease, viral illness cannot be resolved with the use of antibiotics. Prevention and management of viral disease ...
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An Opinion
First, I hope your family, neighbors, and friends are all healthy and safe. The purpose of this article is not to sell you anything. It is to allow you to understand the importance of disinfection before and after the vaccines are incomplete implementation. Let’s start with why we believe that everyone needs to be diligent, even though there is a vaccine. Remember the Severe Acute ...
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Under Sewer-Veillance - Wastewater & COVID-19
Wastewater & COVID-19 Connections When the word wastewater crosses your mind, there is probably also a memory of your Mom’s voice telling you – wash your hands! When humans transitioned into community living, keeping your living space separate from your bathroom space was an important rule to learn. We can thank early scientists who were curious about how diseases spread and ...
By Flottweg SE
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Mortality from selected diseases that can be transmitted by water – United States, 2003–2009
Diseases spread by water are caused by fecal–oral, contact, inhalation, or other routes, resulting in illnesses affecting multiple body systems. We selected 13 pathogens or syndromes implicated in waterborne disease outbreaks or other well-documented waterborne transmission (acute otitis externa, Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium, Escherichia coli (E. coli), free-living ameba, Giardia, Hepatitis ...
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Ticks Increasing on Northern California’s Beaches
If you think wooded or grassy areas are the only places where you need to worry about ticks on the west coast, think again. A four-year study of Lyme disease ticks in California has revealed an unusually high number of ticks on and near beaches. The study focused on several Northern California coastal counties and surveyed around 3,000 Western blacklegged ticks, the ticks responsible for ...
By IGeneX
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Manufacturing Challenges in Electronics Industry Post-pandemic
The pandemic has had a devastating effect on our world. Since the initial outbreak, the disease has spread to nearly every country on the planet. In the pandemic, the world was in upheaval. The pandemic had been devastating on all of us. These were the most remarkable changes from old times in history. It caused millions of deaths and billions of dollars in damages. From losing our loved ...
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Europe’s warming raises tropical disease risk
Add one more horror to the list of awful threats that climate change poses: it could introduce dengue fever in Europe. Dengue fever is already a hazard for 2.5 billion people in humid tropical regions, and 50-100 million people a year are infected by the mosquito-borne disease. It puts 500,000 of them in hospital each year, and kills around 12,000 − many of them children. And there is ...
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Hong Kong Hospital Authority selects IQAir filtration systems for the fight against SARS
In February of 2003, newspapers began reporting a rapidly spreading atypical pneumonia. Now identified as severe acute respiratory syndrome or SARS, this highly contagious condition is caused by a new coronavirus for which there is no specific antiviral treatment. While the epicentre of the outbreak was China, the disease spread quickly across Asia and to North America (especially Canada) with a ...
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Low-dose irradiation therapy to cure gas gangrene infections
Infection with clostridium bacteria, which live in the soil, is most often associated with war wounds, car accidents, complicated abortions, etc. The incidence is highest in areas with poor access to proper wound care. Such infections lead to gas gangrene, a deadly disease that spreads very quickly in the body and causes rapid death. Present-day treatment consists of administering antibiotics and ...
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How does Grapevine Leafroll disease affect grapevines?
Grapevine leafroll disease (GLD) is one of the most common and persistent grapevine diseases, present in all grape-growing regions of the world, and affecting up to 50 per cent of vineyards globally.1 It is a viral disease caused by a small insect called the grapevine mealybug, which are known to be carriers of Grapevine leafroll associated Viruses (GLRaVs). The mealybug has a needle-like mouth, ...
By VineView
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Chronic wasting disease outbreak across america
CWD (Chronic Wasting disease) is spreading in the United States. It is an infectious disease affecting deer and elk, leaving them ‘zombie like’, according to experts. CWD has already spread to 24 US states as of August 2019. The disease has been seen to affect animals such as reindeer, moose, elk and various deer species. It has been found in free-ranging deer and elk as well as ...
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Will COVID-19 be the Catalyst for a Reshoring Movement?
Wuhan, China, the presumed epicenter of COVID-19, was barely a blip on most people's radar before the virus breakout. It wasn't until much later did we begin learning just how important a global manufacturing hub Wuhan is. For decades it's been a pivotal area of modern industrial manufacturing for high technology and engineering industries including: 20 companies in the electronic communications ...
By Connexion
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Healthy ways to keep out critters and bugs
Let’s face it: Most people hate pesky invaders in their home. But that seldom stops critters and bugs to find a way in. When temperatures drop, a natural response is to seek warmer and cozier surroundings -- not just for people but for all kinds of creatures. Most homeowners are aware and on the lookout for signs that critters and insects try to invade their buildings and living spaces. ...
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A breath screen for active tuberculosis at the point-of-care
Tuberculosis (TB) is on the rise, and traditional technologies are not up to the task of containing this fast-spreading disease. But a fast, robust, and low-cost optical system is enabling point-of-care testing Driven by various social factors, a number of “old” diseases have recently reemerged to significantly threaten world health. Of particular concern is the increase in ...
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Mosquito Egg Weak Spots
Malaria. Yellow Fever. Zika. Dengue. West Nile virus. These are some of the diseases, carried by mosquitos, that infect millions of people worldwide every year. According to the World Health Organization, these infections result in over 700,000 deaths annually. To help curb this huge burden on public health, scientists have been searching for better ways to manage mosquito populations to inhibit ...
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Closing the "tunnel of cells" to slow cancer
Recent research has uncovered an especially aggressive mechanism for the spread of a particularly aggressive type of breast cancer, in which the NUP93 protein plays a key role. Because this protein creates a "tunnel" in the nuclear membrane, cancer can gain access to the cell's DNA and exploit it to satisfy its own goals, such as increasing the cell's ability to migrate and spread the disease ...
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New Screening Solution Offers Hope in the Battle Against TB
In recent years, a number of ‘old’ diseases have re-emerged as significant threats to world health, driven by factors such as population migration and modern transportation. Of particular concern is the increase in the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) infection, a highly contagious disease spread through the air when infected people cough, sneeze or spit. According to statistics ...
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What are the non-woven fabrics in daily life?
Simply put, nonwovens have opened doors nonwoven fabric of opportunity for everyday convenience that would have been the stuff of dreams or wild imagination not too long ago. Just like Henry Ford made it possible for everyday folks to own a car and the Wright brothers to glide from one part of the country to another over 1000 miles away in a matter of hours, nonwovens have revolutionized several ...
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Who was Florence Nightingale?
The person behind the moniker attributed to the wave of new hospitals constructed to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic is a remarkable figure in British history. Born on 12 May 1820, Florence Nightingale, long depicted as a saintly nurse who saved thousands of lives, was a much more complex character than this. In fact, she was a mathematical genius who used her talent to strategise healthcare and ...
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Shoe Sanitizing Stations for Hospitals
During an early 2020 study in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers swabbed multiple surfaces at a healthcare facility to study aerosol and surface distribution. Around 50% of the samples from healthcare workers’ footwear contained genetic material from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In addition, as medical staff walk around the ward, the virus can be tracked all over the ...
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