PPT-Travel Patterns and Disease Transmission

Alicia Kraay Background Prior research focused on differences between communities in terms of travel ex gravity models May be significant heterogeneity within communities Ex Adults are more likely to travel outside of the region than children . Spread of Diseases. There have been several diseases that have spread across the world killing many. In the middle ages it was the Bubonic Plague. In 1981 it was HIV. Epidemiology . An area of investigation that deals with factors that influence the frequency and distribution of diseases. ECOL 8310, 11/17/2015. Why do ecologists study host-parasite interactions?. Major regulator of wildlife population dynamics. Control. 1 Treatment. 2 Treatments. Trichostrongylus. . tenuis. Lagopus. . Spread of Diseases. There have been several diseases that have spread across the world killing many. In the middle ages it was the . Bubonic or Black . Plague. In 1981 it was HIV. Epidemiology . An area of investigation that deals with factors that influence the frequency and distribution of diseases. Causes of Disease. Identifying . causes. of disease and the . mechanisms. by which they spread remains a primary focus of epidemiology. Etiology. : Science and study of the causes of disease and their mode of operation . Cassandra Salgado, MD, MS, FIDSA, FSHEA. Professor of Medicine and Public Health. Division Director, Infectious Diseases. Medical University of South Carolina. Active . Zika. Virus Transmission June 2016. Anne Busch. Transmission of Prion diseases. Infectious prion disease spread through: . Ingestion of diseased tissue or body fluid . Inhalation of aerosols (in mice) . Transmission: donor prion enters the recipient cell → host prion binds to the ends of amyloid prion (template) → host prion adopts amyloid form . Session . 10 . – . Making sense of the information you collect. Recorded PowerPoint file. In Session . 10 . we will explore:. How to describe patterns of disease by. Time. Place. Animal. How to use this information to think . ECDC is an Agency of the European Union Ebola virus disease TUBERCULOSIS. Tuberculosis . remains one of the major health . problems in . many tropical countries. ; in some . countries the . situation is being aggravated by dense . overcrowding. in . urban slums. An estimated 8–10 . By . M.H.Davari. MD. 2. Occupational Infections. Occupational infections are human diseases caused by . work-associated exposure . to microbial agents.. Occupational and non-occupational infections are the same, except:. 1 1. What is Melioidosis? - Melioidosis, also called Whitmore's disease, is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei. Melioidosis is clinically and pathologically occurs when there is physical contact between an infected person and a susceptible person. occurs when there is no directoccurs from a reservoir to contaminated surfaces or objects, or to vectors s Helio. . Shimozako. Hsunyi. Hsieh. Luiz. Henrique Fonseca. Marina . Salles. Rosângela. . Sanches. Tharindu. . Wickramaarachchi. II Southern-Summer School on Mathematical Biology. Jan-27 2013. The Lyme Disease. phylogenetics. Dr Samantha Lycett. Infection & Immunity Division, . Roslin. Institute, University of Edinburgh. 31 May 2016. (short version). www.roslin.ed.ac.uk/sam-lycett/. . Check here for links to papers when published.