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The broad impacts of climate change, including sea level rise, extreme weather events and biodiversity loss, also extend to human health, and may dramatically shift the landscape (distribution, prevalence and incidence) of zoonotic vector-borne diseases (ZVBDs) globally. This includes the potential emergence of new ZVBDs, as well as increased ‘s pillover’ of pathogens from animals to humans due to alterations in host and vector dynamics driven by environmental changes. It has been predicted, for example,
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Mashup Score: 2BMC Series blog Introducing BMC Primary Care’s Collection: Trust and mistrust in primary care - 8 day(s) ago
BMC Primary Care is pleased to announce a new Collection to highlight the importance of trust in the primary care provider-patient relationship. We welcome research that explores communication dynamics, socioeconomic factors, cultural awareness, and new technologies that shape trust in primary care. Trust is essential for establishing an effective primary care professional (PCP)-patient relationship that influences the overall success of primary care. Attempts to improve primary care utilization, establish
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Mashup Score: 2BMC Series blog Introducing BMC Bioinformatics’ Collection: Bioinformatics ethics and data privacy - 19 day(s) ago
BMC Bioinformatics warmly welcomes submissions to its Collection on new computational approaches, tools, and databases to address issues and open questions in bioinformatics ethics and data privacy, including anonymization, encryption and data deposition. The amount of biological data stored on both local storage systems and online platforms and databases is as large as ever. With the constant increase in the use of data for both digital health and research purposes, ethics and data privacy are important
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Many of the most frightening human viruses have only recently made the jump from another species. These ‘zoonoses’ include the pandemic virus SARS-Cov-19 (which famously derived from a bat virus), and can be sourced from species both closely related to humanity (such as HIV originating from apes) and from species more distally related (such as avian flu from birds). By simmering in natural reservoirs and infecting Homo sapiens at unexpected times, zoonotic diseases present a formidable, shadowy foe for
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Have you ever found yourself eyeing a mosquito as it buzzed around, seemingly fixated on making you its next meal? It’s an intricate dance of advances and retreats, with the female mosquito meticulously orchestrating its movements to achieve a precise landing. But mosquitoes aren’t the only ones performing: across the globe, communities are harnessing the power of dance to rally against malaria, engaging people in the collective effort to combat this deadly disease. The success disease prevention strategie
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Mashup Score: 2Beyond sensors and alerts: diabetic foot prevention requires more than the odd sock - On Medicine - 1 month(s) ago
In a follow-up to her recent blog post, Jenny Corser discusses the SOCKSESS study of smart sensing socks for monitoring diabetic feet, registered at the ISRCTN registry.
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Mashup Score: 3BugBitten Looking for the “Bear” necessities of helminths - 1 month(s) ago
In a recent study in Spain, researchers looked at the helminths infecting the endangered Cantabrian brown bear population, to determine what influence seasonality and bear activity may have on helminth species prevalence, and to feed into decisions for critical conservation efforts to safeguard the bears. The One Health Approach is very topical at the moment, with a lot of research and intersectoral work addressing emerging infectious diseases, zoonoses, food security and environmental stressors that
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Mashup Score: 0BugBitten An Arbovirus new to Australia - 1 month(s) ago
The first-ever outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in temperate Australia is connected to the creation of extensive wetlands following excessively high rainfall. Arboviral diseases are caused by a group of viruses spread to humans by arthropods such as mosquitoes or ticks. Arboviruses can be harboured and amplified by wild birds and some animals. Once a bird or animal is heavily infected with virus particles, a vector feeding on it may become infected, passing the virus to a human when the infected
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Mashup Score: 0BugBitten Looking at the potential impact of invasive mosquitoes - 2 month(s) ago
A new study in Parasites and Vectors looks at the potential impact the invasive Aedes albopictus in southern Spain. What might the world look like in 50 years? Well, if the world’s climate continues to change and heat up, the sea levels will rise. Weather patterns may shift, and as a result landscapes and agricultural practices could also alter. But what about diseases? Will climate change affect those, too? Yes, it turns out, and in varying ways. In some cases, hotter temperatures could wipe out certain
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Mashup Score: 0BugBitten Clocking out: knocking out circadian clock gene disrupts key functions in Aedes mosquitoes - 2 month(s) ago
Removing vital genes that affect a creature’s behaviour could be a way to ameliorate the impact of disease vectors such as mosquitoes. Vinaya Shetty and colleagues describe the effects of knocking out the circadian clock gene in Aedes aegypti – a significant arboviral disease vector. Aedes aegypti is a species of mosquito that is a disease vector for several arboviral diseases such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya that affect millions of people globally. Many of these diseases do not have vaccines readily
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A BugBitten blog post discusses how the ecological impacts of climate change are expected to drive changes in the endemic ranges of zoonotic vector-borne diseases globally. https://t.co/NyC3IiE8SZ https://t.co/XoPownWsHY