Valley fever is an emerging fungal disease in the western United States that most often causes flu-like symptoms, but can also cause dangerous or even deadly complications. By analyzing data on reported cases of Valley fever ...
Sep 3, 2024
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The geographical range of vector-borne diseases, especially diseases such as malaria and dengue, that are transmitted by mosquitoes, has expanded rapidly over the last 80 years, with over half the world's population now at ...
Apr 24, 2024
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Josie Rudolphi is a professor of agricultural and biological engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign whose research examined suicide among farmers and ranchers, as well as the mental health of their children. ...
Dec 13, 2022
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Coccidioidomycosis—also known as Valley fever—is an infectious disease that is taking an increasing toll on the health of Californians and people living throughout the Southwest. In a study published today in The Lancet ...
Oct 10, 2022
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We spend most of the year complaining that Britain is too cold and wet but gripe with just as much enthusiasm about the heat.
Jul 11, 2022
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Droughts caused by climate change can have an impact on HIV treatment, according to a new study led by researchers at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS), Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) and the University of ...
Apr 11, 2022
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The latest special issue of PLOS Medicine outlines different aspects of child and adolescent health and development, and the social determinants of health. The studies within the collection were selected by PLOS Medicine's ...
Sep 28, 2021
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Dengue risk is exacerbated in highly populated areas of Brazil after extreme drought because of improvised water containers housing mosquitoes, suggests a new study in Lancet Planetary Health.
Apr 9, 2021
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The end of California's drought, announced last month amid one of the rainiest winters in memory, could offer a surprising benefit: reduced transmission of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus.
Apr 16, 2019
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The Dust Bowl in the 1930s was one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th century. Intense dust storms relentlessly pounded the southern Great Plains of the United States, wreaking severe ecological damage, forcing ...
Jun 11, 2018
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