The first part of this paper surveys emerging pathogens of wildlife recorded on the ProMED Web site for a 2-year period between 1998 and 2000. The majority of pathogens recorded as causing disease outbreaks in wildlife were viral in origin. Anthropogenic activities caused the outbreaks in a significant majority of cases. The second part of the paper develops some matrix models for quantifying t...

In recent years, the frequency of dust storm is rising. Dust storm can impact the climate changes and cause great damages to people. It is very necessary to monitor the disasters accurately. In this paper, a dust storm process occurred in April, 2006 has been monitored. According to the reflect and absorb characteristic of dust storm, the scope of dust storm is extracted successfully;and the in...

Rapid communications First detection of Echinococcus multilocularis in Sweden, February to March 2011 4 by E Osterman Lind, M Juremalm, D Christensson, S Widgren, G Hallgren, EO Ågren, H Uhlhorn, A Lindberg, M Cedersmyg, H Wahlström Gonorrhoea treatment failures to cefixime and azithromycin in England, 2010 7 by CA Ison, J Hussey, KN Sankar, J Evans, S Alexander Outbreak of rotavirus gastroente...

Letter to the Editor concerns the question of a discussion of awake porcine malignant hyperthermia that erroneously omits the awake human stress reaction of malignant hyperthermia.

This article provides a methodology for the economic analysis of the potential consequences of a simulated anthrax terrorism attack on real estate within the Seattle metropolitan area. We estimate spatially disaggregated impacts on median sales price of residential housing within the Seattle metro area following an attack on the central business district (CBD). Using a combination of longitudin...

Clinical trials of the human rotavirus vaccine Rotarix™ (RV1) have demonstrated significant reductions in severe rotavirus gastroenteritis (RVGE) in children worldwide. However, no correlate of vaccine efficacy (VE) has yet been established. This paper presents 2 analyses which aimed to investigate whether serum anti-RV IgA measured by ELISA 1 or 2 mo post-vaccination can serve as a correlate o...

On June 2, 2014 a sandstorm hit Tehran, the capital city of Iran which killed 5 and injured 44 people. The early warning system did not operate properly and the alarm was not transferred to at risk population and the related organizations in time and in a right manner. Additionally, people who were exposed to the winds didn't know the appropriate safety measures. Focusing much more on establish...

Anthropometric measurements were made on 360 primary school children with a history of whooping cough and on 711 controls. Altogether 245 (68%) cases and 469 (66%) controls had taken tests of reading attainment and a smaller number had taken tests of intelligence. No significant differences were found between cases and controls in any of the anthropometric measurements nor in reading age or int...

The efficient allocation of medical resources to prepare for and respond to mass casualty events (MCEs) attributable to intentional acts of terrorism is a major challenge confronting disaster planners and emergency personnel. This research article examines variation in regional patterns in the causes of injures associated with 77,258 successful terrorist attacks that occurred between 1970 and 2...