Thermal aging produces irreversible aging to home decoration PVC insulation copper cables through high temperatures, and their pyrolytic behavior changes as a result. The thermogravimetric-Fourier transform infrared a...
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Accurate, timely, and complete disease reporting is essential to understanding the extent and long-term consequences of diseases related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (9/11). Although there are no pub...
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Accurate, timely, and complete disease reporting is essential to understanding the extent and long-term consequences of diseases related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (9/11). Although there are no public health disease reporting requirements that specifically mention 9/11, other mechanisms exist to track 9/11-related illnesses. These include the availability of 9/11-exposed cohorts, some open to new member recruitment and others closed. Record linkages of 9/11 cohorts to various data registries (eg statewide cancer registries and the National Death Index) are periodically performed. This paper describes these 9/11 cohorts and the efforts to track their health experience.
Cigarette smoking can cause and/or worsen a variety of health conditions. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends that smoking cessation services be offered to all adults who currently smoke, and g...
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Cigarette smoking can cause and/or worsen a variety of health conditions. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends that smoking cessation services be offered to all adults who currently smoke, and governmental and non-governmental professional organizations support providing these interventions to patients who smoke. The World Trade Center (WTC) Health program, a federal program that provides health monitoring and treatment to those directed exposed to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, provides smoking cessation therapy for eligible members. This paper identifies treatment strategies for smoking cessation and references the treatment coverage policy in the WTC Health program. In addition, this paper notes the higher smoking prevalence among those with mental health conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the need for heightened cessation efforts given the lower quit success rates among such persons.
The raccoon (Procyon lotor) rabies virus (RABV) variant is enzootic in the eastern United States and oral rabies vaccination (ORV) is the primary strategy to prevent and control spread. Breaches of ORV management zone...
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The raccoon (Procyon lotor) rabies virus (RABV) variant is enzootic in the eastern United States and oral rabies vaccination (ORV) is the primary strategy to prevent and control spread. Breaches of ORV management zones occasionally occur, and emergency "contingency" responses may be implemented to enhance local control. Contingency actions are an integral part of landscape-scale wildlife rabies management but can be very costly and routinely involve enhanced rabies surveillance (ERS) around the index case. We investigated two contingency actions in Ohio (2017-2019 and 2018-2021) and one in Virginia (2017-2019) using a dynamic, multi-method occupancy approach to examine relationships between specific management actions and raccoon RABV occurrence, including whether spatial ERS response efforts were adequate to detect additional cases around the index. Raccoon RABV occupancy was assessed seasonally at 100-km2 grids, and we examined relationships across three spatial scales (regional management zone, areas west of the management zone, and local contingency area). The location of a grid relative to the ORV management zone was the strongest predictor of RABV occupancy at the regional scale. West of managed areas, the neighbor effect and temporal variability were most important in influencing RABV occupancy. Parenteral (hand) vaccination of raccoons was important across all three contingency action areas, but more influential during the Ohio contingency action areas where more raccoons were vaccinated by hand. In the Virginia contingency action area, ORV strategies were as important in reducing RABV occupancy as a strategy of hand vaccination. Management actions to trap, euthanize, and test (TET) raccoons were particularly important for ERS but the impacts of TET on RABV occupancy are not clear. The probability of detecting additional cases of RABV was exceptionally high during the season the index case occurred. The probability of detecting RABV through ERS declined in t
Objectives: To identify associations between perceived neighborhood walkability and sleep across racial and ethnic groups of US adults. Methods: Data from the 2020 National Health Interview Survey (N = 27,521) were us...
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We present a method to convert weather data into probabilistic forecasts of Aedes aegypti abundance. The approach, which relies on the Aedes-AI suite of neural networks, produces weekly point predictions with correspo...
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Postdoctoral training positions are becoming more common in the human factors and ergonomics (HFE) discipline. However, conversations related to training in the HFE discipline have largely focused on undergraduate and...
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Rift valley fever (RVF) is an endemic viral zoonosis in Uganda that causes sporadic outbreaks. In May 2021, a 19-year-old woman from Kasaana Village, Kiruhura District, Western Uganda was diagnosed with RVF. In additi...
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Rift valley fever (RVF) is an endemic viral zoonosis in Uganda that causes sporadic outbreaks. In May 2021, a 19-year-old woman from Kasaana Village, Kiruhura District, Western Uganda was diagnosed with RVF. In addition, five case patients identified from the same village were immunoglobulin (Ig) M–seropositive for RVF virus (RVFV), all with a history of contact with livestock. We interviewed farmers in Kasaana Village to find out whether their livestock had recently experienced any sign of RVF (livestock abortions and neonatal mortality). We conducted a veterinary records review at the regional animal diagnostic laboratory and a case search for livestock that had a recent history of abortion or neonatal mortality. Among 162 livestock (94 cattle and 68 goats) from four farms reporting one or more abortions during March-June 2021, 57 (33 cattle and 24 goats) were randomly selected for testing for RVFV using enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. Verbal reports from farmers and veterinary records review revealed increases in livestock abortions and neonatal mortality during March-May 2021, before the human cases occurred. Serological testing indicated that eight (14%) livestock, including three (9%) cattle and five (21%) goats, were IgM-seropositive for RVFV. The presence of anti-RVFV IgM antibodies in sera suggested current infection in livestock, corroborating livestock abortions within the same period. Hence, human RVFV infections likely resulted from contact with infected animal products. The recurring pattern of livestock abortions observed before human RVFV infections in Uganda indicates a gap in the zoonotic disease surveillance system, through which reports on such events should trigger rapid response to detect disease, control spread among animals, and prevent spillover to humans. An expanded One Health approach on collaboration and information sharing on such events could facilitate RVF risk reduction in humans in Uganda.
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