To the Editor: The bacterium Vi-brio vulnifi cus is a marine fl ora sap-rophyte that can cause necrotic skin infection and septicemia in humans who eat shellfi sh. Symptoms of sep-ticemia (mortality rate >50%) have been described mostly in Florida and Japan among persons who ate raw fi lter-feeding shellfi sh when seawater temperatures are >20°C (1). V. vulnifi cus–related septicemia introduced...

Poultry diseases are responsible for majority of losses in livestock production leading to constraints the development and enhancement viable systems Nigeria. The impact these is severe rural areas. This study evaluated importance ethno-veterinary practices on food sustainability. research design was survey method sample size determined using Taro Yamane formula from a population 100 (50 each) ...

This review highlights the social determinants associated with some infectious diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) over past decade. Guided by PRISMA and Population Concept Context (PCC), database searches PubMed, Science Direct Elsevier, Springer Link, Plos One, Google search were employed to identify relevant studies. For extraction of data from scripts, Metaanalysis thematic analysis was us...