(CIDRAP News) – A review and mapping study to gauge the burden of zoonotic diseases found that Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania, and India are four top hot spots and that a surging demand for livestock products will likely fuel the spread of several diseases.
(CIDRAP News) Global cholera incidence has increased since 2000, with Haiti's large outbreak tipping the largest burden away from Africa for the first time since 1995, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.
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Morin CW, Comrie AC. Regional and seasonal response of a west nile virus vector to climate change. PNAS 2013 (published online Sep 9)
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is an approach to assessing the health impacts of policies, plans, and projects using a variety of quantitative, qualitative and participatory techniques, in order to help decision-makers make more informed choices and promote healthy initiatives. One major benefit to using this approach is that investigators can record local observations where community-level data is difficult to find.
