Mad cow and other maladies: update on emerging infectious diseases.

A perspective on emerging mosquito and phlebotomine-borne diseases in Europe.

Emerging infectious diseases are of increasing concern worldwide and in particular in Europe. In a review, Jones et al. have shown that between 1940 and 2004, the majority of emerging infectious diseases occurred in areas with both a high mobility and high density of population, notably in Western Europe. Furthermore, nearly a third (29%) of the recorded events related to emerging infectious di...

Is mad cow disease caused by a bacteria?

Transmissible spongioform enchephalopathies (TSE's), include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (also called BSE or "mad cow disease"), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and scrapie in sheep. They remain a mystery, their cause hotly debated. But between 1994 and 1996, 12 people in England came down with CJD, the human form of mad cow, and all had eaten beef from suspect cows. Current mad...

Validation of effective factors in management of emerging infectious diseases with a focus on covid-19 pandemic

Background and objective: Risk reduction is one of the pillars of sustainable development of society. The aim of the research is Validation of effective factors in crisis management of emerging infectious diseases with a focus on covid-19 disease so that the managers of the organizations can gain benefits while having a systemic thinking and a suitable management model while passing along with ...

Meteorological and climate change themes at the 2010 International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Upsurge of Rodents’ Population in a Rural Area of Northeastern Iran Raised Concerns about Rodent-borne Diseases

Introduction: Rodents are the primary source of several zoonotic infectious diseases. The upsurge of rodents’ population in Najaf Abad Village of Nishapur County, northeastern Iran in February 2014 raised the concerns about the outbreak of diseases such as plague and tularemia. This report discusses the lessons learned from the outburst of rodents’ population in that village and rep...