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Detection of H5N1 avian influenza virus from mosquitoes collected in an infected poultry farm in Thailand - PubMed

  2024-04-24 (or before) in PubMed National Center for Biotechnology Information

Blood-engorged mosquitoes were collected at poultry farms during an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Central Thailand during October 2005. These mosquitoes tested positive for H5N1 virus by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Results were confirmed by limited se …

  Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Disease

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Effectiveness of 20 years of conservation investments in protecting orangutans - PubMed

  2023-10-10 (or before) in PubMed National Center for Biotechnology Information

Conservation strategies are rarely systematically evaluated, which reduces transparency, hinders the cost-effective deployment of resources, and hides what works best in different contexts. Using data on the iconic and critically endangered orangutan (Pongo spp.), we developed a novel spatiotemporal …

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Food security: the challenge of feeding 9 billion people - PubMed

  2023-07-09 (or before) in PubMed National Center for Biotechnology Information

Continuing population and consumption growth will mean that the global demand for food will increase for at least another 40 years. Growing competition for land, water, and energy, in addition to the overexploitation of fisheries, will affect our ability to produce food, as will the urgent requireme …

  Tagged under: Fish

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Modeling the Geographic Distribution of Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Contiguous United States - PubMed

  2023-07-04 (or before) in PubMed National Center for Biotechnology Information

In addition to serving as vectors of several other human pathogens, the black-legged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say, and western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus Cooley and Kohls, are the primary vectors of the spirochete (Borrelia burgdorferi) that causes Lyme disease, the most common vector-borne …

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Exposure to multiple environmental agents and their effect - PubMed

  2023-05-29 (or before) in PubMed National Center for Biotechnology Information

It is necessary to define and study groups of multiple stressors as in US EPA's Framework for Cumulative Risk Assessment (U.S. EPA 2003). Recent increased knowledge of the greater sensitivity of the unborn baby, the infant and the child, has led to general recognition that a higher degree of precaut …

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Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels this century will alter the protein, micronutrients, and vitamin content of rice grains with potential health consequences for the poorest rice-dependent countries - PubMed

  2023-01-25 (or before) in PubMed National Center for Biotechnology Information

  Tagged under: Health

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Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production - PubMed

  2022-08-14 (or before) in PubMed National Center for Biotechnology Information

Growing evidence demonstrates that climatic conditions can have a profound impact on the functioning of modern human societies, but effects on economic activity appear inconsistent. Fundamental productive elements of modern economies, such as workers and crops, exhibit highly non-linear responses to …

  Tagged under: Economics

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Has the human species become a cancer on the planet? A theoretical view of population growth as a sign of pathology - PubMed

  2020-11-29 (or before) in PubMed National Center for Biotechnology Information

The author describes current global population trends as being similar to the development of a cancer in the living body. "The human species, through the instrument of culture, has become the dominant force of planetary ecological change. Our adaptations have become maladaptive. Moreover, the human …

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