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Tracking Dengue: An Interview With Alisa Aliaga-Samanez

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Photo by William Bossen on Unsplash In your experience, how effective study such as yours at influencing change in government and health policies, and do you think work like this will be taken more seriously following the COVID-19 pandemic? She is currently mapping vector-borne zoonotic diseases through global distribution modeling.

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

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By keeping pets healthy, veterinarians play an essential role in protecting humans from zoonotic diseases. ” State and local public health agencies, including those in Los Angeles County and Washington state , have issued similar warnings against raw food diets for pets. .” Kuchipudi has studied H5N1 in cats.