Public Health Risks: Antibiotic Resistance - Review -

Antibiotic Resistance in Environment and its Public Health Risks in Iran

Antibiotic and antiseptic resistance: impact on public health.

More and more we are moving patients from hospitals to homes for continued treatment. Vancomycin and triclosan were used for 30 years before any resistance emerged, because their applications were strictly limited. Today, after greatly increased use, resistance to both antibiotics and antibacterials has appeared. Of importance there are genetic links between resistance to antibiotics and to ant...

Phthalate risks, phthalate regulation, and public health: a review.

As a result of concerns about the toxicity of phthalates to humans, several expert panels were convened toward the end of the 1990s to evaluate the implications of the scientific evidence for the risks of phthalates to humans of all ages. These panels concluded that the risks were low although they had concerns about specific applications of some phthalates, e.g., in medical devices. These grou...

Public health risks from subclinical variant CJD

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is a zoonotic prion disease thought to have been transmitted to humans through the consumption of food products contaminated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the 1980s and/or early 1990s. As with all prion disorders, it is a fatal neurodegenerative disease arising from conversion of the normal cellular form of the prion protein PrP, encoded...

Public health risks of not vaccinating children.

T o the Editor: The article on vaccine “exemptors” by Dr Feikin and colleagues’ concludes that 11% of the vaccinated children who contracted measles (11% of 137 during a 12-year period, or about 1.25 per year) were infected by an exemptor. The annual risk that a vaccinated child would contract measles from an exemptor would thus be about 1 in 1 million if the incidence were equal in all years. ...