Brucellosis

For decades researchers have known that a bacterial disease in elk, bison and cattle in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem causes periodic abortions in these animals and chronic illness in humans drinking infected cow's milk. The disease, called brucellosis, poses a financial concern for dairy producers and cattle ranchers, but its effects on the wild elk population have generally been considered minor. In recent years, however, elk pregnancy rates have become the subject of controversy. Various researchers claim that stress caused by fear of wolves and nutritional deficiencies caused by drought can explain low pregnancy rates in specific elk herds, but until now the effects of brucellosis on elk pregnancy have not been scrutinized. Utah State University researchers Gavin Cotterill and Johan du Toit report that by mid-winter, elk that test positive for brucellosis are less likely to be pregnant than healthy elk, independent from the abortions caused by that disease later in the y

Whether raising sheep or cattle, livestock producers should always plan on vaccinating their young animals, says Dr. David Fernandez, Extension livestock specialist for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff School of Agriculture, Fisheries and Human Sciences. The price of a single calf, lamb or kid lost to a preventable disease would pay for the vaccination program for a producer’s entire herd or flock in most cases. “Vaccines only cost about $3 to $10 per calf and 50 cents to $1 per lamb or kid,” he said. “They protect your flock or herd against diseases that can often prove to be fatal. Even if a disease is not fatal, a producer could lose several pounds of growth for each sick animal.” With live calf prices hovering around $1.65 per pound, as little as two pounds lost to disease would pay for the cost of the vaccines, he said. Kids and lambs are worth about $2 per pound, which more than pays for the cost of vaccination. Producers should plan on vaccinating their livestock in

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It is an unusual day when I agree with a large group of socialist health groups. But activists correctly raise the alarm that changes in policies by large multilateral donors may lead to the rise of inferior tuberculosis medicines and poor patient outcomes. Tuberculosis patients outside Chiulo Hospital in Angola on February 22, 2018. REUTERS/Stephen Eisenhammer Donor policy changes were understandable and inevitable. Taxpayers in richer nations cannot be expected to fund health programs in emerging markets forever. There have to be transition policies in place so that as a nation (like China) moves from relative poverty to riches, it should fund its own programs. This is both rational and self-interested of the donor bodies, since if they don’t demand transition they will lose taxpayer support. But recipient nations become addicted to financial support and rarely handle transitions well. And when it comes to drug procurement, the health activists have themselves partly to blame.

The success rate of the ambitious Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), driven by the Government of India, is appaling, reports a study . The study was conducted by a team of researchers from the World Health Organization (WHO), National AIDS Control Organization, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Public Health Foundation of India and Central TB Division of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. It reveals that RNTCP has a success rate of a mere 34.5% and details some of the challenges the country faces in tackling drug-resistant tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial, air-borne infection mainly affecting the lungs. The disease is rampant among poor communities with inadequate housing. It is socially fraught with a very high stigma, driving affected individuals away from timely treatment. With the tuberculosis bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis , becoming resistant to many antibiotics in use to fight the disease, multidrug-resi

Police officers stationed at the notorious Moria refugee camp on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos have been asked to take blood tests after one their colleagues contracted an infectious disease. Sources told Kathimerini that the victim, who has been hospitalized at a local clinic with high fever for about five days, tested positive for tuberculosis. According to the same sources, the officer has been given a medical certificate confirming that his illness is no longer infectious. He is expected to undergo six months of medical treatment. The Moria facility has repeatedly been described by the UN and other human rights groups as overcrowded and unfit for humans.   https://ift.tt/2RkSS0o

PITTSBURGH — Mourners remembered synagogue shooting victim Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz as a man who never stopped smiling — but always took his work as a healer seriously — during his funeral Tuesday. “His demeanor led people to believe he was a mal’akh — an angel — and his presence was divinely inspired,” said Congregation Dor Hadash Rabbi Cheryl Klein during a service at the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill. “Jerry’s death should be a call for all of us to model his compassion and urgency to heal the world. We will do this one mitzvah at a time.” Rabinowitz was remembered for his compassionate treatment of sufferers during the 1980s AIDS crisis — when panic over the then-mysterious disease was at its zenith. “Never shirking from his duty to his oath, he led me to a conference on AIDS at a time where we know essentially nothing about it — except that it was contagious and fatal,” recalled his partner Dr. Ken Ciesielka. “When word spread that we were ready, willing and able to ca

Documents: Art, AIDS & Activism in Chicago—a traveling screening that Visual AIDS and QUEER, ILL + OKAY presented—was showcased Oct. 20 at Pride Arts Center. The video program showed the history of fighting AIDS and HIV in Chicago and bringing awareness to non-LGBTQ communities with 30 years of media production by activists, journalists, artists and educators working against the disease. Ranging from video diaries to documentary footage and oral history lessons, the film pieced together individual work that focused on artistic influence from zines and comics and organized movements that propelled the fight against AIDS from various communities. It also included footage from ACT UP/Chicago campaigns and personal accounts from women living with AIDS and those involved in the world's longest-running clinical research study on women with HIV. After the screening, a panel discussion was held with educators and activists who were part of the movements and who are still working to

A well-known Zimbabwean prophet has reportedly claimed to have discovered the cure for HIV and Aids. According to New Zimbabwe.com , Prophetic Healing and Deliverance ministry founder, Prophet Walter Magaya, said the cure was an herb called Aguma and would destroy the HIV virus in just 14 days. Magaya said he was working with the government which was "taking his 'cure' through some laboratory tests to see if his claims were feasible". He also claimed to have engaged the World Health Organisation (WHP) for approval. "With the government of Zimbabwe, they are summoning the local research board; the minister (health) has already indicated to me they are bringing people that are HIV positive to start testing them," Magaya was quoted as saying. A NewsDay report quoted the charismatic prophet as telling congregants during a Sunday service that it took him two years to find the organic cure, adding that he did the research with his Indian counterparts. &quo

World AIDS Day falls on December 1 each year In Uganda, 3% of adolescent girls 15-19 years live with HIV (AFP Photo) World AIDS Day falls on December 1 each year WORLD AIDS DAY- Starting Thursday November 1, 2018 Vision Group, will run educative and informative HIV/AIDS series ahead of the International AIDS Day. World AIDS Day falls on December 1 each year. It is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, to show support for people living with HIV and to commemorate those who have died from an AIDS-related illness. Founded in 1988, World AIDS Day was the first global health day. Package the Vision Group platforms namely: print media, TVs, radios and online will run content highlighting the achievements and challenges in the campaign against HIV/ Aids. It will also focus on issues relating to this year’s AIDS Day theme: Know your status. New Vision editor John Kakande said as a leading media house, Vision Group has an obligation to contribut

Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Health has asked provinces and cities to strengthen HIV/AIDS control and prevention activities as part of the Central Party Steering Committee’s goal of eliminating HIV/AIDS in the country by 2030. The health ministry asked localities to improve HIV preventive measures, especially distribution of syringes and condoms to high-risk groups like drug addicts and prostitutes. Methadone programmes will be maintained and expanded to treat drug addicts. Communication activities will strengthen the community’s awareness and   eliminate stigma and discrimination   towards people living with HIV/AIDS. To strengthen HIV supervision and detection activities, HIV consultation, test and screening forms will be diversified at medical facilities, community and households. HIV test programmes should be carried out at the district level in mountainous and remote and ethnic minority areas, especially residential clusters with many people living with HIV/AIDS. The

The Chronicle EDITOR — A United Nations initiative backed by global experts has set its sights on an ambitious programme to bring an end to the Aids epidemic by 2030. The 90-90-90 strategy aims to do this by reaching three targets: 90 percent of all people with HIV must know their status, 90 percent of those diagnosed with HIV must receive antiretroviral therapy, and 90 percent of people receiving antiretroviral therapy must be virally suppressed. When a person is virally suppressed it means the virus in their blood is undetectable. The last goal is informed by evidence that people with a suppressed viral load are less likely to transmit HIV to others. But a couple of steps still need to be taken before these goals can be met. The first is large scale community based HIV testing that aims to get people tested on an annual basis at the very least. The second is linking testing to care. This is critical because it addresses the gap between a person being diagnosed with HIV to whe

To leave a longstanding mark in history, President Donald Trump needs more than low unemployment numbers and a string of scandals. He needs a moonshot. Other leaders have labelled their goals "moonshots," but to be remembered alongside the original moonshot, a big challenge needs a known solution. In the mid-20th century, the science was already in place to build long-distance rockets. Getting to the moon was an engineering challenge. "Cure cancer" is a popular promise, but no one knows how. But now, for the first time, doctors do have a possible path to eradicating HIV/AIDS. In the past it was assumed that the world would be stuck with millions of cases of HIV until someone invented a safe and effective vaccine. There isn't one yet. But researchers are publicly speculating that a concentrated effort could end HIV transmission in the U.S., and possibly worldwide, using drugs that already exist. It's not a sure thing. Even if it works, it won't happe

T hanks to the internet, we’re reading more words a day than ever before. We wade through emails, instant messages and social media posts, many of which link us to further screens of text for us to scan, absorb and process. But how good are we at reading all this? The statistics may prove that we’re reading voraciously, but how much of it is sinking in? Back in 2009, neuroscience professor Dr Bill Klemm voiced his concern that the internet might be contributing to a fall in reading proficiency, and in particular how elements of web design – bullet points, sidebars and graphics – caused us to skim read, thus “creating bad habits for in-depth reading”. Dr Janneke Blijlevens, senior lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne, believes that this is still the case. “With information everywhere, we tend to read really quickly,” she says. “We don’t work to engage with the material, and if we don’t properly engage with it then we won’t remember it.” A team led by Blijlevens embarked on a pro

Whether raising sheep or cattle, livestock producers should always plan on vaccinating their young animals, says Dr. David Fernandez, Extension livestock specialist for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff School of Agriculture, Fisheries and Human Sciences. The price of a single calf, lamb or kid lost to a preventable disease would pay for the vaccination program for a producer’s entire herd or flock in most cases. “Vaccines only cost about $3 to $10 per calf and 50 cents to $1 per lamb or kid,” he said. “They protect your flock or herd against diseases that can often prove to be fatal. Even if a disease is not fatal, a producer could lose several pounds of growth for each sick animal.” With live calf prices hovering around $1.65 per pound, as little as two pounds lost to disease would pay for the cost of the vaccines, he said. Kids and lambs are worth about $2 per pound, which more than pays for the cost of vaccination. Producers should plan on vaccinating their livestock in

HTF MI recently introduced new title on “Global Brucellosis Vaccines Market Research Report 2018” from its database. The report provides study with in-depth overview, describing about the Product / Industry Scope and elaborates market outlook and status to 2025. The Report gives you competition analysis of top manufacturer with sales volume, price, revenue (Million USD) and market share, the top players including Jinyu, Colorado Serum, Boehringer Ingelheim, Biogenesis-Bago, Vetal Company, CZ Veterinaria, SYVA Laboratorios, Indian Immunologicals, Qilu, Tecnovax, Hester Biosciences, Zoetis, Onderstepoort Biological, Instituto Rosenbusch, Ceva Sante Animale, Calier & Biologicos Laverlam & Biovet Get the inside scoop of the Sample report @:  https://www.htfmarketreport.com/sample-report/877545-global-brucellosis-vaccines-market-4   In this report Global Brucellosis Vaccines market classified on the basis of product, end-user, and geographical regions. The report includes in-dep

Brucellosis Vaccines Market Research report, Gives Information that covers the present scenario (with the base year being 2017) and the growth prospects of global Brucellosis Vaccines market up to 2023. Brucellosis Vaccines is surfactant that is produced extracellularly or as part of the cell membrane by bacteria, yeasts and fungi. It has excellent biodegradability, low toxicity and other properties. Get Sample PDF of Brucellosis Vaccines Market Report @   https://www.360marketupdates.com/enquiry/request-sample/ 12700511 “ the present scenario (with the base year being 2017) and the growth prospects of global Brucellosis Vaccines market for 2018-2023.Brucellosis vaccine is a vaccine for cattle, sheep and goats used against brucellosis. Currently, there is no vaccine available for humans.The classification of Brucellosis Vaccines includes S19 Vaccine, RB51 Vaccine Strain and Other. And the proportion of S19 Vaccine in 2016 is about 86%, and the proportion is stable from 2012 to 2016

NEW ORLEANS (October 29, 2018)--As the global battle against malaria stalls, scientists may be adding a novel tool to the fight: sniffer dogs. In recent tests trained sniffer dogs successfully diagnosed malaria infections simply by sniffing samples from socks worn briefly by children from a malaria endemic area of West Africa, according to a new study presented today at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting. "People with malaria parasites generate distinct odors on their skin and our study found dogs, which have an incredibly sensitive sense of smell, can be trained to detect these odors even when it's just on an article of clothing worn by an infected person," said Steven Lindsay, a public health entomologist at in the Department of Biosciences at Durham University in the United Kingdom and the lead investigator on the study. The research was conducted with colleagues from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSH

NEW ORLEANS -- Papua New Guinea saw a major resurgence of malaria after a "previously unprecedented decline," a researcher said here. Over the last 3 years, the historic declines in malaria prevalence to <1% in 2013-2014 have been offset with an increase to 7.1% in 2017 in Papua New Guinea, reported Manuel Hetzel, PhD, of Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel, Switzerland at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) annual meeting. For people infected with malaria parasites detectable by light microscopy, there was an 8.6-fold increase in malaria prevalence from 50,309 to 432,000 from 2014 to 2017, Hetzel reported. Previous malaria control initiatives involved indoor residual spraying and mass distribution of chloroquine. When these efforts ended, there was the first massive resurgence of malaria, he added. To address this resurgence, the National Malaria Control Program of Papua New Guinea was initiated, and involved free distributi

The proliferation of malaria-specific cord blood CD4 + T cells is associated with protection from childhood malaria, particularly in the first 2 years of life, according to a study by Margaret E. Feeney, MD, and colleagues, published in a new edition of Science Translational Medicine . “We have identified a population of fetal malaria-responsive T cells in infants born to mothers with active placental malaria that have phenotypic features of effector memory cells and a variety of inflammatory effector functions,” the study authors wrote. “Here, we add to our current understanding of how the fetus is capable of responding to pathogens by demonstrating effector memory differentiation, inflammatory cytokine production, and robust antigen-specific T cell proliferation after in utero exposure to malaria.” Additionally, the investigators added that the “transplacental exposure of the fetus, as occurs with placental malaria, similarly results in limited exposure to blood-stage antigens and

DUBLIN--( BUSINESS WIRE )--The "Global Malaria Diagnostics Market - Forecasts from 2018 to 2023" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global malaria diagnostic market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 4.01% over the forecast period of 2017-2023. The growth in the market may be attributed to the advancements in the technology for the rapid detection of the disease. Rise in the government funding regarding the malaria diagnostic research and awareness in developing regions will also boost the market during the given time frame. However, low awareness among the people regarding the malaria diagnostics may restrain the growth of the market during the given forecast period. Segmentation By Technique Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) Microscopy Nucleic Acid Detection By End-Users Hospitals and Clinics Diagnostic Centers By Geography North America South America Europe Middle East and Africa Asia Pacific Key Topics Covered 1

Steven Lindsay, a public health entomologist at Durham University in England, has been researching malaria control for decades. His preferred approach, he says, is to “sit on the boundaries,” drumming up ideas that others might not. So it’s perhaps unsurprising that his latest project was inspired by the baggage-claim area at Dulles International Airport. If the beagles there could use their noses to detect explosives or contraband in suitcases, he wondered, could they also be trained to sniff out an intractable disease that kills more than 400,000 people each year? Lindsay ended up tackling that question in a project that involved the dirty socks of hundreds of African children and a trio of sniffer dogs in England — and the answer strongly pointed to yes. The dogs correctly identified socks worn by malaria-infected children 70 percent of the time and those worn by noninfected children 90 percent of the time. “I think it is quite extraordinary,” said Lindsay, the lead scie

The parasite causes a deadly infection which kills many people each year. The parasite that causes malaria is a protozoan called 'plasmodium'. Protozoa are organisms with only one cell , but they are not bacteria . Bacteria are smaller and simpler than protozoans. People usually get malaria from the Anopheles or Culex mosquitoes : they are the vectors of the disease. The plasmodium gets into people by the bites of mosquitoes. The plasmodium is in the mosquito's special saliva. The mosquito's saliva injects an anticoagulant into the person to prevent their blood from clotting. The person is then infected with plasmodium as a by-product. This makes the person have the disease we call malaria. Only the female mosquito gives people malaria, because only the female mosquito consumes blood. The male mosquito lives on the nectar of flowers. The female uses blood as a source of protein for its eggs. Some people do not get malaria from mosquitoes. A baby can get it while