Using Public Health to Prevent Air-Borne Pandemics Rather than Medical Science Responding to Air-Borne Pandemics

Air-Borne Infection

Engineering responses to pandemics

Focusing on pandemic influenza, this chapter approaches the planning for and response to such a major worldwide health event as a complex engineering systems problem. Action-oriented analysis of pandemics requires a broad inclusion of academic disciplines since no one domain can cover a significant fraction of the problem. Numerous research papers and action plans have treated pandemics as pure...

Development of a strategic plan through SWOT analysis to control traffic-borne air pollutants using CALINE4 model

Traffic is one of the main sources of air pollution in metropolitan areas. With development of transportation system, inappropriate vehicle production, and the use of low-quality fuels, increased pollution in these areas is inevitable. The current study tries to determine PM2.5, PM10, NO2, and CO emission dispersion, caused by traffic, using CALINE4 software. Ac...

Air-Borne Fungi in New Haven, Connecticut *

The number and variety of the common fungi in the air vary as the result of a great many factors. Their tendency to contaminate cultures (particularly of skin scrapings) as well as their allergenic properties confer upon them a certain degree of importance.2' 3 The present studies were designed to familiarize us with the common fungi that might contaminate our cultures of skin scrapings from pa...

Thermal precipitation for sampling air-borne microorganisms.