Rural agricultural areas in the United States are key regions for influenza surveillance in wild and domesticated animals such as pigs and birds. Public health and veterinary agencies regularly...
Outbreaks and Emerging Issues
Environmental hazards, intentional and man-made emergencies, and infectious disease outbreaks that pose a threat to public health.
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is an approach to assessing the health impacts of policies, plans, and projects using a variety of quantitative, qualitative and participatory techniques, in order to...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that across the globe heat waves will likely become stronger and longer, while heavy precipitation events will become more frequent. In order...
Mosquitoes carrying the dengue fever virus are slowly reemerging in the southern United States. Dengue fever occurs when an individual becomes infected by one of four virus serotypes, at which point...
