Invasive mosquitoes are an emerging public health issue, as many species are competent vectors for pathogens. We assessed how multiple environmental and socio-economic factors affected the engagement of municipalities in Italy (n = 7679) in …
The hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) population in the UK continues to decline due to habitat loss, despite reintroductions of captive-bred individuals being conducted nationally for over 30 years. Disease surveillance of captive-bred and …
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Louise Gibson, Tammy Shadbolt, Pranab Paul, Georgina Gerard, Ethan Wrigglesworth, Anthony W. Sainsbury, Helen Donald, Jenny E. Jaffe, Inez Januszczak, Liam D. Fitzpatrick, Caela Burrell, Hannah Davies, Akbar Dastjerdi, Simon Spiro
Different syndromes are involved in human psittacosis (flu-like syndrome, atypical pneumonia up to lacrimal gland lymphoma). Diagnostic methods include serology, culture, and PCR. The rate of Chlamydia psittaci (Cp) positive tests among exposed …
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Patricio Favier, Guillermo M. Wiemeyer, Maite B. Arias, Claudia S. Lara, Gabriela Vilar, Ana J. Crivelli, Herman K. Ludvik, María I. Ardiles, María L. Teijeiro, María J. Madariaga, María J. Rolón, María E. Cadario
Lyme disease (LD) is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States (U.S.). This paper assesses how climate change may influence LD incidence in the eastern and upper Midwestern U.S. and the associated economic burden. We estimated …
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Haisheng Yang, Caitlin A. Gould, Russ Jones, Alexis St. Juliana, Marcus Sarofim, Matt Rissing, Micah B. Hahn
Witnessing degradation and loss to one’s home environment can cause the negative emotional experience of solastalgia. We review the psychometric properties of the 9-item Solastalgia subscale from the Environmental Distress Scale (Higginbotham et …
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Bruce K. Christensen, Conal Monaghan, Samantha K. Stanley, Iain Walker, Zoe Leviston, Emily Macleod, Rachael M. Rodney, Lisa-Marie Greenwood, Timothy Heffernan, Olivia Evans, Stewart Sutherland, Julia Reynolds, Alison L. Calear, Tim Kurz, Jo Lane
Anthropogenic changes to forest cover have been linked to an increase in zoonotic diseases. In many areas, natural forests are being replaced with monoculture plantations, such as oil palm, which reduce biodiversity and create a mosaic of …
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Gael Davidson, Peter Speldewinde, Benny Obrain Manin, Angus Cook, Philip Weinstein, Tock H. Chua
Ecological information on wildlife reservoirs is fundamental for research targeting prevention of zoonotic infectious disease, yet basic information is lacking for many species in global hotspots of disease emergence. We provide the first …
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Tamika J. Lunn, Reilly T. Jackson, Paul W. Webala, Joseph Ogola, Kristian M. Forbes
Hannah E. Brindle, Behzad Nadjm, Marc Choisy, Rob Christley, Michael Griffiths, Stephen Baker, Juliet E. Bryant, James I. Campbell, Van Vinh Chau Nguyen, Thi Ngoc Diep Nguyen, Ty Thi Hang Vu, Van Hung Nguyen, Bao Long Hoang, Xuan Luat Le, Ha My Pham, Thi Dieu Ngan Ta, Dang Trung Nghia Ho,
Thua Nguyen Tran, Thi Han Ny Nguyen, My Phuc Tran, Thi Hong Phuong Pham, Van Tan Le, Dac Thuan Nguyen, Thi Thu Trang Hau, Ngoc Vinh Nguyen, Heiman F. L. Wertheim, Guy E. Thwaites, H. Rogier van Doorn, the VIZIONS Consortium
In the sentence beginning ‘Several animal diseases, such as ASF, CSF and AD, are monitored in domestic pigs and wild boars in Finland’ in this article, the year ‘2017’ should have read ‘1917'.
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Maria Fredriksson-Ahomaa, Laura London, Teresa Skrzypczak, Tuija Kantala, Ilona Laamanen, Mia Biström, Leena Maunula, Tuija Gadd
McClure et al. start off our special feature on land use change by looking at the apportioning of our planet as more land is converted to agriculture. Davidson et al. found that deforestation is a factor in the recent spread of monkey malaria …
The Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) is the flagship conference for the ocean sciences and the larger ocean-connected community. The session invites presentations on ocean sustainability including ocean productivity, marine policies, aquaculture and …
Despite the global zoonotic disease burden, the underlying exposures that drive zoonotic disease emergence are not understood. Here, we aimed to assess exposures to potential sources of zoonotic disease and investigate the demographics, attitudes …
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Nguyen Thi Kha Tu, Ngo Tri Tue, Olli Vapalahti, Anna-Maija K. Virtala, Le Van Tan, Maia A. Rabaa, Juan Carrique-Mas, Guy E. Thwaites, Stephen Baker, the VIZIONS consortium
