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New Research Could Contain Infectious Disease Outbreaks
2013-08-15 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Research at the University of East Anglia has identified a rapid response, which could help halt infectious diseases such as swine flu, bird flu and SARS before they become established.
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Climate change said affecting global spread of infectious diseases
2013-08-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: Climate change affects the spread of infectious diseases worldwide with serious impacts to human health and biodiversity conservation, disease ecologists say. Writing in the journal Science, they propose modeling the way disease systems respond to climate variables could help public health officials and environmental managers predict and mitigate the spread of lethal diseases. Climate change and its effects on diseases that threaten humans has been a subject of debate for the last decade, study...
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Potato Famine Pathogen More Infectious Now than Ever
2013-07-18 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: The same plant pathogen responsible for the devastating Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s is even more virulent now, after going through more than a century of genetic mutations that provide the pathogen with a greater means to harm and kill plants, according to researchers studying early and modern strains of the pathogen. Plant pathologists from North Carolina State University and the University of Copenhagen analyzed the genomes of five 19th century strains of Phytophthora infestans and compared...
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Carolyn Williams, R.N., Occupational Health & Infectious Disease Program Manger
2013-06-18 00:08:27| PortlandOnline
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Carolyn Williams, R.N., Manager of the Occupational Health & Infectious Disease Program Recognized at National Convention
2013-06-17 23:29:18| PortlandOnline
Carolyn Williams, R.N. was cited as a "Hero of Infection Prevention" at the recent national convention of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
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