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Brucellosis – How Dangerous is It?

Gideon

Zoonotic diseases seem to be keeping the world on its toes. What is the disease responsible for the latest outbreak in China , and what is its pathogenic potential? Not the Next COVID-19 Brucellosis is a category B bioterror disease, as classed by CDC.

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Vaccine History and Heroes

Gideon

Following this, mice continued to serve as standard tools for the study of zoonotic diseases by future researchers (6). Yellow fever cases and rates worldwide, 1950 – 2016 Pearl Kendrick (left) and Grace Eldering.

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Climate and health: Stories to watch in 2025

Association of Health Care Journalists

Investigate how climate change is altering the geographic range of vector-borne diseases dengue fever and even malaria. Zoonotic diseases. Multiple environmental changes, including climate, have affected ecological patterns and made disease spillovers from animals to humans more likely.

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Less Prep, More Insights: GIDEON R for Epidemiology Research

Gideon

” March 2021, Ecological Conditions That Increase Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases Outbreaks: Morand and Lajaunie published their findings on how global forest cover changes and oil palm expansions are associated with increased outbreaks of vector-borne and zoonotic disease outbreaks from 1990 to 2016.

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House Cats With Bird Flu Could Pose a Risk to Public Health

KFF Health News

By keeping pets healthy, veterinarians play an essential role in protecting humans from zoonotic diseases. At least one instance of a cat infecting a person with bird flu occurred in 2016. In general, zoonotic disease researchers want more H5N1 surveillance in companion animals of all types.

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Bird flu in house cats could pose a risk to public health

HEALTHBEAT

By keeping pets healthy, veterinarians play an essential role in protecting humans from zoonotic diseases. At least one instance of a cat infecting a person with bird flu occurred in 2016. In general, zoonotic disease researchers want more H5N1 surveillance in companion animals of all types.