Marburg Virus Disease: An Emerging Public Health Challenge

Elderly depression in India: An emerging public health challenge.

Emerging foodborne diseases: an evolving public health challenge.

The epidemiology of foodborne disease is changing. New pathogens have emerged, and some have spread worldwide. Many, including Salmonella, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Campylobacter, and Yersinia enterocolitica, have reservoirs in healthy food animals, from which they spread to an increasing variety of foods. These pathogens cause millions of cases of sporadic illness and chronic complications, as...

Marburg Virus Disease

formation and transduction mechanisms are in dispute and remain to be investigated witlh renewed vigor. Lysogenic conversion may be operative in the myco-bacteria. Six of the papers are devoted to the study of lysogenic mycobacteria, whiclh exlhibit plhenotypic clhanges suclh as cell-wall alterations (expressed as chaniges in eitlher cell or colony morplhology), altered enzymatic activity, and ...

public health ethics related training for public health workforce: an emerging need in the united states

background: ethics is a discipline, which primarily deals with what is moral and immoral behavior. public health ethics is translation of ethical theories and concepts into practice to address complex multidimensional public health problems. the primary purpose of this paper was to conduct a narrative literature review-addressing role of ethics in developing curriculum in programs and schools o...

Lassa fever and Marburg virus disease.

In the light of progress in virology, it comes as a surprise to discover a disease, an epidemic disease moreover, caused by a "new "virus. This has happened twice in recent years. The diseases, Marburg virus disease and Lassa fever, are caused by unrelated viruses that are highly pathogenic for man and both have been responsible for illness and death among laboratory scientists and medical pers...