Can humans become infected with the rat lungworm parasite from snail slime, if an infected snail or slug leaves slime on a lettuce leaf? That is the question University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers set out to answer ...
Dec 18, 2023
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To examine the patterns of road crashes suffered by specific socially disadvantaged groups, researchers led by Dr. Ali Soltani from the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute at Flinders University, evaluated crash ...
Jun 5, 2023
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As with COVID, public health agencies around the world have struggled to predict which communities will be hit the hardest with malaria, a life-threatening disease that infected an estimated 247 million people in 2021. A ...
Feb 22, 2023
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In the study, which appeared on September 27 in Nature Communications, scientists analyzed decades of environmental data associated with Lassa virus outbreaks, revealing temperature, rainfall and the presence of pastureland ...
Sep 27, 2022
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COVID-19 has been the first pandemic that has taken place alongside the interconnectivity of the Internet. Consequently, the spread of ideas and information about the disease has been unprecedented—but not always accurate. ...
Sep 16, 2022
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QUT ecologist Dr. Ayesha Tulloch, dietitian Professor Gallegos and UQ ecologist Dr. Rachel Oh analyzed 150 webpages from six world regions and found 83% of the 2,556 recommendations for food items that might "boost" immunity ...
Sep 8, 2022
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Plant-based dietary alternatives to animal products are better for the environment and for human health when compared with the animal products they are designed to replace, say the authors of a new study.
Jul 29, 2022
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Encouraging people to eat more fruit and vegetables post-pandemic could avert up to 26 million deaths every year by 2060, a study has found.
Jul 7, 2022
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Massey University professor of infectious disease ecology, Professor David Hayman, has been a part of a team that has identified areas of the world that are at risk for new SARS-related coronavirus outbreaks.
May 27, 2021
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As COVID-19 vaccines slowly roll out across the world, government officials in densely populated countries must still manage vulnerable communities at highest risk of an outbreak.
Mar 26, 2021
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