Squashing Malaria: Advances in Research and Prevention [Slide Show] Nov 14, 2009
Diseases based on a zoonotic (animal-to-human) vector, including malaria and other killers such as hantavirus, require a nuanced understanding of the transmission cycle. "You have to understand the vector, you have to understand its habits, you have to understand the local cultural setting," said Phil Thuma, managing director of the Institute at Macha (MIAM) in Zambia, in a video presentation shown during a (JHMRI) summit on Thursday. (Scientific American)
Message to Coos Bay: Get along or lose businesses (2185) Oct 16, 2009
Pig Nuts wrote on Oct 14, 2009 8:28 PM:o Toxoplasma gondii causing toxoplasmosis in 35% o Trypanosoma lewisii in 29% o Eimeria separata in 8% * Rickettsia o Coxiella burnetti evidence of infection by Q fever in 34% * Viruses o Hantavirus causing Hantaan-fever or hemorrhagic fever in 5% * Ectoparasites (note: these ectoparasites are vectors for diseases which are transmissible to humans, such as typhus) o Fleas found on 100% of the rats o Mites found on 67% o Lice found on 38. Pig Nuts wrote on... (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Kolkata: Rat bites patient in hospital Oct 13, 2009
Rat droppings can carry any number of viral and bacterial infections, including hantavirus, plague, typhus, leptospirosis and meningitis. Topics. (India Times, India)
Satellites Used to Predict Infectious Disease Outbreaks Aug 25, 2009
Hantavirus, the pulmonary disease spread by rodents, for example, has been linked to changes in precipitation. With more rainfall, vegetation increases, which then fuels rodent populations. (Scientific American)
Monitoring Disease -- by Satellite? Aug 16, 2009
Preliminary efforts have already produced models that predict spikes in diseases ranging from to hantavirus on the basis of remote sensing data, according to Timothy Ford of the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine, and colleagues. Writing in the September issue of the CDC's , Ford and colleagues -- including Rita Colwell, former director of the -- said novel patterns of infectious disease are likely to accompany the regional temperature and hydrological trends that add up to. (ABC News)
Predators battle bugs, become pests themselves Jul 22, 2009
The deer mice also were carrying hantavirus - a disease that can be deadly in humans. A Montana health department spokesman said it is unknown whether any of the 23 hantavirus illnesses and six deaths since 1993 were associated with the gall fly release. (Concord Monitor)
Health officials think death was hantavirus Jun 24, 2009
(AP) -- Coconino County health officials believe the death of a Minnesota woman is linked to the hantavirus ... Coconino County Health Department spokeswoman Trish Lees said the victim was hospitalized June 11 outside Arizona, diagnosed with hantavirus, and died June 12 ... This is the first reported case of hantavirus in Arizona for the year, after one in the state last year. (FOX 11, AZ)
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Jun 20, 2009
Hantavirus is a rare and deadly disease carried by mice into your home ... Hantavirus was first recognized in 1993 when an outbreak occurred on a Reservation that bordered Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico ... Belonging to the family Bunyaviridae, there are approximately 20 known hantaviruses, which usually cause mild disease in Asia and Europe. (Suite101.com)
Snakes have role in nature Jun 5, 2009
Clearly, one snake can significantly impact an ecosystem by reducing the potential for serious diseases such as hanta virus or Lyme disease. At the first sign of danger, or human contact, snakes will usually flee. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Health department warns about Hantavirus May 27, 2009
Those who travel to the lake country should be aware and protect themselves against hantavirus, a disease transmitted by infected mice ... Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is a viral infection that causes severe lung disease ... The symptoms of the hantavirus typically occur two to three weeks after infection and early symptoms include fever, muscle and body aches, fatigue, headache, dizziness, chills, nausea and vomiting. (Wahpeton Daily News, ND)
Climate Change Impacts Revealed: Disease in Peru May 12, 2009
Nevertheless, "many infections, including dengue, yellow fever, hanta virus, bartonellosis and , are very sensitive to climate and to temperature, humidity and rainfall.". 1. (Scientific American)
UPDATE: Local case one of 159 being tested for swine flu (7252) May 1, 2009
think wrote on Apr 29, 2009 12:50 PM:" Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) was left out. Flu should not be made light of. The things mentioned are hard to catch and do not spread easy. This thing is going to kill a lot of people. http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/This flu killed as many as 40 million people. I doubt there is enough meds to take care of all the people who are now infected. In 1918 we didn't have planes spreading this like wild fire. We may see 200 million dead world wide. We know it... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Cadaver dogs join in search for Thumb Butte bones Apr 30, 2009
On this day, the team is looking for the remains of a man authorities believe was 23 to 35 years old and 5'8" to 5'10" with a 38" waist, wearing size 10 Converse shoes, found nearby, along with a red web belt. Detectives think it may be a man two callers reported seeing in November 2007 near the Dearing Park area along Thumb Butte Road. At the time, deputies searched but couldn't find anyone. Then, this past April 10, a dog out with a hiker left the roadside, scrambling back later with a human... (FOX 11, AZ)
Vote on county district coming Apr 11, 2009
Additionally, surveillance activities would be conducted to help identify the presence of vector species and densities of vector-borne diseases, including West Nile virus, Lyme disease and hantavirus, all of which have been found in the county. There s a host of vectors that we are concerned about, Batson said. (Santa Maria Times)
Field stations foster serendipitous discoveries in environmental, biological sciences Apr 9, 2009
An understanding of and ability to forecast the spread of Hantavirus and West Nile virus, based on research at the Sevilleta field station near Albuquerque, N.M. ... In the Hantavirus example, long-term rodent studies were conducted for several years for a different purpose, yet provided data for addressing the ecology of this disease-causing virus. (EurekAlert!)
NASA Study Predicted Outbreak Of Deadly Virus Feb 20, 2009
Chikungunya in east Africa and Hantavirus and West Nile virus in the United States, for example, have been linked to conditions of rainfall extremes. "We are coming up on almost 30 years of vegetation data from satellites, which provides us with a good basis for predicting," Linthicum said upon returning from a Rift Valley fever workshop in Cairo, Egypt in January. (Science Daily)
David O'Brien's beat blog Feb 17, 2009
I ll go further: Whenever Johnson announces that ebola, AIDS, mad-cow disease, and the hantavirus were intentionally bioengineered by shrewish drongos for the purpose of population reduction, his underlings applaud on cue and the accolades are long and ostentatious. What s funny is that they don t provide similar feedback whenever I tell them that you might have heard the story that Johnson once agreed to help us hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
