That they can cause deadly and epidemic pneumonia in chamois was unknown. It is against the law to administer medical treatment to wild animals
so we don't really have many possibilities to prevent an epidemic explains Annika Posautz from the pathology team of the Research Institute.
Donahue and an international team of researchers with the CLOUD experiment at CERN set out to test that hypothesis. The CLOUD project at CERN is a unique facility that allows scientists to reproduce a typical atmospheric setting inside of an essentially contaminant-free
However one consequence of the obesity epidemic is that nearly one out of every four reproductive-aged women is pre-diabetic.
When pumped out of a production well the particles can be analyzed with a spectrometer to determine the level of contamination This paper is a big step
and addiction how to restrict contaminants in marijuana products and how to discourage the dual use of marijuana and alcohol particularly in public settings.
and measure pesticide contaminants in hives and determine the genetic composition of the colonies. This is the first comprehensive survey of bee health in East Africa where we have examined diseases genetics
#Suicide epidemic among Indias marginalized farmersa new study has found that India's shocking rates of suicide are highest in areas with the most debt-ridden farmers who are clinging to tiny smallholdings--less than one hectare
and reports from the field and suggest there is a suicide epidemic in marginalized areas of Indian agriculture that are at the mercy of global economics.
and help curb the growing epidemic of antibiotic resistance. The research was published in the journal PLOS One.
By understanding the mechanisms of how the bacteria interact with plants the researchers are hoping to find targeted ways to stop the binding reducing the risk of food contamination.
Robinson's research can also be applied worldwide to help with cadmium contamination. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by American Society of Agronomy (ASA) Crop science Society of America (CSSA) Soil science Society of.
of which have entered the United states for the first time--porcine epidemic diarrhea virus and delta coronavirus. Swine specialists and molecular diagnosticians at the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory have developed tests to detect which virus is infecting the pigs.
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus has killed already an estimated 6 million pigs. The Kansas State university laboratory is one of only four in the United states with the new tests to identify these diseases.
#Mercury contamination threatens Antarctic birdsmercury contamination in the Antarctic and Subantarctic affects bird populations reveal researchers from the Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizã and from the'Littoral Environnement et Sociã tã s'Laboratory (CNRS/Universitã de
This could be due to the fact that in Adã lie Land the more severe environmental conditions combined with the increasing presence of other pollutants (pesticides PCBS) magnify the impact of mercury contamination.
if mercury contamination continues to increase skua populations could decline in the long term. The scientists call for further toxicological and demographic studies on other southern species
and full implementation of THE WHO FCTC would help reduce the growing burden of non-communicable disease in China.
 Keep windows closed to protect inside air from contaminants.  Run the air conditioner and air purifier to remove pollutants.
The scientists looked at the genes'response to five abiotic stresses--drought heavy metal contamination salt cold and nutrient deprivation--and five biotic stresses--bacteria fungus insect predation weed
School of medicine. â#oethere is need a great for a therapy that will protect patients with celiac disease from these accidental contaminations. â#Verdu says the results raise the possibility of elafin administration
#Urban gardeners may be unaware of how best to manage contaminants in soilconsuming foods grown in urban gardens may offer a variety of health benefits
and challenges related to the perceived risk of soil contamination among urban community gardeners and found a need for clear and concise information on how best to prevent
and manage soil contamination. The results are featured online in PLOS ONE. While the benefits are far-reaching gardening in urban settings can also create opportunities for exposure to contaminants such as heavy metals petroleum products and asbestos
which may be present in urban soils said Keeve Nachman Phd senior author of the study and director of the Food Production and Public health Program with CLF.
and expertise to determine accurately the prior use of their garden site and potential contaminants in the soil.
or gaps in knowledge about how best to minimize their risk of exposure to contaminants that may be in urban soil.
As a result many soil contaminants have been found at higher concentrations in urban centers. To characterize urban community gardeners'knowledge
and perceptions of soil contamination risks and reducing exposure researchers conducted surveys among urban community gardeners and semi-structured interviews with key informants in the gardening community in Baltimore Maryland.
or organizational affiliation makes them knowledgeable about Baltimore City community gardening and soil contamination. People may come into contact with these contaminants
if they work or play in contaminated soil or eat food that was grown in it.
In some cases exposure to soil contaminants can increase disease risks especially for young children said Brent Kim MHS lead author of the paper and a program officer with CLF.
The first contamination event from June 2009 to January 2010 was attributed to one L. monocytogenes strain very effective at infecting epithelial cells of the intestine and liver cells.
and fungi that decompose plant matter in healthy ecosystems are hindered by radioactive contamination. They showed a smaller effect for small invertebrates such as termites that also contribute to decomposition of plant biomass.
It's another facet of the impacts of low-dose-rate radioactive contaminants on the broader ecosystem Mousseau says.
and redistribute the radioactive contamination that is in the trees and the plant biomass Mousseau says.
That would end up moving radio-cesium and other contaminants via smoke into populated areas. This litter accumulation that we measured
Two decades later the U s. Department of agriculture still ranks head blight as the worst plant disease to hit the U s. since the rust epidemics in the 1950s.
Only then can the researcher figure out how to prevent the disease from becoming an epidemic.
and given that China is the worldâ##s most populous country millions of people may be exposed to health risks from contamination.
and contaminants that are retained. Vegetables such as bok choy posed the least risk and choy sum the greatest risk
The dose-response model which characterizes the relationship between exposure level to contaminants and the probability of developing disease is a source of uncertainty in the risk assessment.
These trees are also more tolerant to drought to the presence of weed-killer to in vitro and ex vitro crops to contamination
Boiling water to remove contaminants requires a great deal of fuel to heat the water. Membrane-based filters while able to remove microbes are expensive require a pump
but did not filter out contaminants. There's huge variation between plants Karnik says. There could be much better plants out there that are suitable for this process.
#Climate change puts wheat crops at risk of diseasethere is a risk that severity of epidemics of some wheat diseases may increase within the next ten to twenty years due to the impacts of climate change
The researchers carried out a survey in China to establish a link between weather and the severity of epidemics of fusarium ear blight on the wheat crops.
During severe epidemics wheat crop losses can be as much as sixty per cent. These losses can become larger as under certain conditions the fusarium pathogen produces toxic chemicals known as mycotoxins.
The research suggests that climate change will increase the risk of serious ear blight epidemics on winter wheat in Central China by the middle of this century (2020-2050.
#Drone shows new view of energy coal ash spillaerial images captured by a drone aircraft provide a new look at the extent of contaminants leaked into a North carolina river from a Duke energy coal ash dump as concerns about water pollution grow
It could be an effective means to monitor the extent of environmental contamination in the case of similar incidents.
It also helps resolve the origin of the virus that caused the unprecedentedly severe influenza pandemic of 1918 The new research is likely to change how scientists
when and from where pandemic viruses emerged. Once you resolve the evolutionary trees for these viruses correctly everything snaps into place
Ever since the influenza pandemic of 1918 it has not been possible to narrow down even to a hemisphere the geographic origins of any of the genes of the pandemic virus. Our study changes that Worobey said.
This has helped fuel a growing global epidemic of obesity and chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
#Drought contributed to Typhus epidemics in Mexico from 1655 to 1918, study showsepidemiological data integrated with climate data taken from tree-ring estimates of soil moisture levels demonstrate that drought contributed to the spread of typhus in Mexico from 1655 to 1918 according to a new study by researchers
Now because of Mexico's rich historical record of epidemic disease we can see that drought as reconstructed by tree-ring chronologies caused conditions that allowed typhus to flourish in central Mexico over a 250-year period.
Stahle and Jordan Burns a graduate student in geography at the U of A compared historical records of 22 typhus epidemics in central Mexico with soil moisture estimates based on tree-ring reconstructions.
Below-average tree growth drought and low crop yields occurred during 19 of the 22 typhus epidemics.
The observed relationship between drought and typhus epidemics in colonial and modern Mexico is curious
Epidemic typhus is caused an infectious disease by a bacterium transmitted between people by body lice. The disease spreads where conditions are crowded and unsanitary.
Nitrogen the most important and widely used agricultural nutrient is also a major environmental contaminant. In many regions increased levels of nitrate found in groundwater have been attributed to the high rates of nitrogen fertilizer applied to surrounding crops.
Plant disease epidemics are bad news for farmers. There has been a heavy reliance on fungicides to control disease
and bats--are much more likely to succeed in the long run according to the U-M researchers who provide an overview of the recent Latin american coffee rust epidemic in a paper published online Jan 22 in the journal Bioscience.
The recent coffee rust epidemic damaged plantations from Mexico to Peru and applying fungicide is one of the main control methods promoted in the affected countries.
It's even possible that coffee rust will maintain its epidemic status indefinitely in the region though additional research would be required to determine
study suggeststhe Western diet probably has more to do with the asthma epidemic than has been assumed so far
The on-the-ground experience of apple growers is that risk of contamination is quite high,
There s always going to be some level of contamination and risk. Whether or not consumers are ready for more GMO fruit,
wild monkeys with special collars to help track contamination levels in places that are hard for us to reach.
 The social cost of water contamination is already enormous and increases every year.  Although todays announcement is about giving millions more people affordable access to safe water,
--which are critically important for tracking sources of contamination. We take our responsibility in the food supply chain seriously,
and arteries clean and functioning, has boomed in recent years as Americans face an obesity and heart-disease epidemic.
Now, we're able to extract contaminants from the wastewater--for example salt, which can then be used for road salt here in the Northeast.
It found contamination of banned pesticides heptachlor and chlordane which affects the liver, in spinach and bitter gourd.
Our obesity epidemic is not a demand problem. It's a supply problem. The mass production creates the mass production,
The answer to the obesity epidemic lies in changing our production incentives. Take the price supports off mass produced grain
will help to alleviate the pandemic of inactivity and obesity in the city. A recent Victorian Health Report shows poor nutrition accounts for around one-sixth of the total burden of ill health in the state
who have concerns about cross-contamination with other crops, among other environmental risks. Some Roundup Ready seeds had already been planted before the ban was enacted.
exposure to infectious diseases, including HIV, to chemical contaminants, such as some illegal drugs, and to a limited number of prescription drugs that might be in the human milk,
which contaminants can reduce the final yield--and that means higher costs. Researchers concluded the refining process could be sped up by raising the temperature.
including the 2008 melamine milk contamination incident that killed six children and sickened some 300,000 more.
By attacking this adaptability, pandemic skeptic Peter Palese of the Mt. Sinai School of medicine in New york says,
What is the potential for a possible pandemic? I think it is inevitable that there will be another pandemic.
But if you look at the pandemics we've seen they have all been from viruses of the H1, H2 and H3 type.
In 1918 with H1, 1957 with H2, 1968 with H3 and in 2009 with H1 again.
What can we do to prevent a pandemic? The best hope is to monitor what is going on in these animal populations.
classrooms and businesses around the globe as much of the world struggles with an obesity epidemic.
land-restriction and decontamination efforts, together with Japan natural iodine-rich seafood diet, make Fukushima food today safer than an average CT scan.
¢tightlipped secrecy around its data and laughably low-tech decontamination strategies that don seem like a match for nuclear contamination.
Nancy Foust, a U s.-based researcher and technology and communications specialist with Simplyinfo. org, a multi-disciplinary U s.-based research group monitoring the Fukushima decontamination efforts,
The decontamination techniques so far have involved either deep tilling to shove the top soil down deep,
a rice farmer in Iidate and former systems engineer who has emerged as a widely cited grassroots expert on decontamination.
A technician at the lab said he was informed actually better than most Japanese government officials on the subject of contamination.
â Å Even the Ministry of the Environment, the ones who actually lead the decontamination work,
The rock fish, for example, almost always show some level of contamination, though it usually low.
and prevent the contamination of rivers and lakes through stromwater runoff. The U s. Conference of Mayors, the official organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more, recently adopted a number of resolution that call the 1,
and environmental contaminants and have created even a better artificial nose to sniff out explosives, but it looks like researchers are finally zeroing in on the smallest possible detection system ever:
and environmental contaminants Chemists create a better artificial nose to sniff out explosives and sour milk German airports use honeybees to sniff out air quality Breath test can detect cancer New remote sensing system can detect explosives
and warns that the banana's unique reproductive system each new fruit is a genetic duplicate of the next makes it especially susceptible to epidemics
An automated brush system not only cleans the cows and cuts down on milk contamination but through tactile stimulation will trigger the hormone oxytocin that stimulates milk production.
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