Public Health: News and Research on Disease Transmission, Infectious

MeSH tree: N06.850.335

You don't need to be very altruistic to stop an epidemic

Reducing social contact is widely understood to slow disease spread, but because there is no personal health benefit gained from self-isolating, this would seem to require some concern for others. But how much do you have ...

How pets enrich the lives of the elderly

The number of adults aged 65 and older is growing, and older adults are at higher risk for social isolation and loneliness due to changes in health and social connections that can come with growing older, according to the ...

Guidance on animal-borne infections in the Canadian Arctic

A new review on zoonotic infections—diseases transmitted by animals—in the Canadian Arctic provides timely guidance to clinicians as the region experiences heightened global interest as well as climate change, which threatens ...

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