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Global Warming Nurtures Infectious Disease Outbreaks
2015-08-17 01:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AllGov: Add another unforeseen problem to the list of consequences of global warmingthe spread of diseases. The bacteria that cause cholera, rarely seen in the United States, love warm weather. Usually winter weather halts the spread of the disease, but with longer, warmer summers and poor sanitation brought on by extreme weather events, its possible thousands more every year will contract cholera, according to Marlene Cimons of ClimateProgress. I would put cholera highest on my list to worry about...
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Climate Change Poised Make Infectious Disease Outbreaks More Frequent
2015-02-16 20:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: As the catastrophic Ebola outbreak showed the world recently, the modern age of global air travel has made it far easier for disease to spread. But climate change, which is shuffling habitable zones for pathogen-carrying animals, is poised to make future outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Ebola, H1N1 and TB worse, and more frequent. In an article published Sunday in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, two zoologists studying parasites in drastically different environments--one...
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Mercks Investigational Beta-lactamase Inhibitor Relebactam (MK-7655) Granted Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) and Fast Track Designations by FDA
2014-09-04 15:00:00| Merck.com - Corporate News
Dateline City: WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated relebactam (previously known as MK-7655), the companys investigational beta-lactamase inhibitor, as a Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) with designated Fast Track status. Language: English Contact: Media:Caroline Lappetito, 267-305-7639orRobert Consalvo, 908-423-6595orInvestors:Joseph Romanelli, 908-423-5185orJustin Holko, 908-423-5088 Ticker Slug: Ticker: MRK Exchange: NYSE read more
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Experts Meet to Solve Infectious Disease Challenges
2014-08-13 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
AUSTRALIA - Many of Australia's leading animal and human infectious disease experts are joining forces this week to identify challenges that might benefit from greater collaboration across Australia's research institutions.
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Climate Change and Infectious Disease: How Sick Will We Get?
2014-08-07 15:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Post: Rising seas and melting polar ice caps and glaciers documented by impressive satellite imagery capture the attention of the news media and make headlines. ?Yet, the most consequential aspect of any change in climate, no matter the cause, receives scant attention. The single most pressing repercussion of any significant alteration in climate, whether global in scale or localized, will be in the shifting patterns and distribution of infectious diseases. Substantial alterations in either localized...