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Acta Biotheor
January 2025
Department of Veterinary Parasitology and Entomology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Conflicts within the tsetse fly belt revealed a strong correlation between the dynamics of bovine trypanosomosis and the insurgency involving farmers and herders in Nigeria and parts of West Africa. This study examined the history, causes and influence of farmers-herdsmen conflicts on banditry, terrorism and food security as it relates to the epidemiology of African animal trypanosomosis (AAT). A combination of literature database searches, semi-structured questionnaires, and mathematical modeling was employed.
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January 2025
Institute for Research in Operative Medicine (IFOM), Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Ostmerheimer Str. 200, 51109, Cologne, Germany.
Purpose: Our aim was to generate evidence- and consensus-based recommendations for the management of mass casualty incidents (MCIs) based on current evidence. This guideline topic is part of the 2022 update of the German guideline on the treatment of patients with severe/multiple injuries.
Methods: MEDLINE and Embase were systematically searched to August 2021.
Importance: Since 2001, 3.5 million United States service members deployed overseas in support of the post-9711 Global War on Terror. While healthy and fit upon deployment, veterans have experienced many complex and often unexplainable illnesses and chronic diseases, with more than 520 000 being diagnosed with cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Emerg Manag
January 2025
Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6034-955X.
Background: Inadequate preparedness of hospitals is associated with negative outcomes in the treatment procedure. During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, healthcare systems faced many problems due to the widespread prevalence of the disease. This study was designed and conducted with the aim of investigating and comparing the preparedness levels of hospitals against mass-casualty disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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December 2024
Targeted Therapy Team, Institute for Cancer Research, 237 Fulham Road, London SW3 6JB, UK.
The COVID-19 and mpox crisis has reminded the world of the potentially catastrophic consequences of biological agents. Aside from the natural risk, biological agents can also be weaponized or used for bioterrorism. Dissemination in a population or among livestock could be used to destabilize a nation by creating a climate of terror, by negatively impacting the economy and undermining institutions.
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