Government Policies, Financial Scopes and Technological Usages for Agricultural Development and Post-Harvest Loss Reduction in Algeria
Tria Djihad (Universiti Utara Malaysia), Abdelkader Alghorbany (Universiti Utara Malaysia), Md. Mahmudul Alam (Universiti Utara Malaysia), Azim Izzuddin Bin Muhamad (Universiti Teknologi MARA Kedah), Government Policies, Financial Scopes and Technological Usages for Agricultural Development and Post-Harvest Loss Reduction in Algeria,... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 6, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Brucellosis – how dangerous is it?
Brucellosis is most frequently transmitted via unpasteurized dairy products
Zoonotic diseases to be keeping the world on its toes. What is the disease responsible for the latest outbreak in China and what is its pathogenic potential?
Not the next COVID-19
Brucellosis is a category B bioterror disease, as classed by CDC. While it is one of the most important zoonotic diseases worldwide, brucellosis has limited pandemic potential, since human-to-human transmission is sporadic and occurs via blood, sexual exposure, or breastfeeding.
63% of cross-border events since 1965 were directly linked to the consumption of unpa...
Source: GIDEON blog - September 19, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Outbreaks Source Type: blogs
A simple act to help families struggling to find their way in a foreign culture
“Where were you born?” “Here!” Yousef (not real name) with happy, gleaming eyes excitedly pointed at Algeria on the laminated world map hanging on the bulletin board in the exam room. “And Dad was born here,” pointing to Morocco with mom nodding approvingly. Who knew that an inexpensive, laminated map could be such an icebreaker […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 24, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/gabriella-gonzales-and-alexander-rakowsky" rel="tag" > Gabriella Gonzales, MD and Alexander Rakowsky, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Albert Camus' The plague
First of three epidemic/pandemic related posts, but going beyond the medical and health science.As it happens, I was reading this book when the current coronavirus outbreak started. There is aninteresting piece about the book, written at the end of last week, on Literary Hub.The novel describes a fictional outbreak of bubonic plague in the town of Oran in Algeria, people ' s reactions to it, and each other, and the decisions that had to be taken.I am not (and neither is the author of the piece) comparing COVID-19 to bubonic plague but reading the story now does make some of those issues take on a certain relevan...
Source: Browsing - March 18, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: coronavirus Source Type: blogs
United States Ranks 5th in Economic Freedom
Ian V ásquezTheEconomic Freedom of the World: 2019 Annual Report is out today. The highest-ranking countries in this year ’s index, co-published in the United States by the Fraser Institute and the Cato Institute, are Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United States.Hong Kong still ranks first in the index —which is based on 2017 data, the most recent year for which internationally comparable data are available—but we are concerned about its ability to maintain a high position given Beijing's increasing intervention in the territory's affairs. Already we have seen a decline in Hong Kong's rule o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 12, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
Measles Vaccine Effectiveness – Supportive Data
Where data are available, reported rates of measles are inversely related to vaccination coverage. This observation is true for virtually every country … from Algeria to Zambia – and are most evident as percentage vaccine coverage exceeds 80 percent. The following charts are based on WHO statistics for measles incidence and estimates (rather than individual reports) of true vaccine coverage. Note in the following charts, that when groups of countries are compared, the disease rates themselves are often numerically lower for countries which have attained highest vaccination coverage [1,2] For example...
Source: GIDEON blog - April 29, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology ProMED Source Type: blogs
Burden of Age-Related Disease Varies Broadly Between Regions of the World
Researchers here present an interesting view of the variance in the burden of age-related disease exhibited by populations around the world. Unsurprisingly, the impact of age falls most heavily on those living in the poorest and least developed regions. Modern medicine and the other comforts of technology, for all that they do not directly target the causes of aging, do manage to have a sizable influence on the pace at which aging and age-related disease progresses over a lifetime. The largest gaps are mostly likely due to a combination of sanitation, particulate exposure from fires, and control of pathogens - akin to the ...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 15, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
45,000 “Special Interest Aliens” Caught Since 2007, But No U.S. Terrorist Attacks from Illegal Border Crossers
ConclusionSo far, there have been zero people murdered or injured in terror attacks committed by illegal border crossers on U.S. soil. This includes those who entered as illegal immigrants and those who entered illegally and then applied for asylum. Only seven terrorists from special interest countries, all of whom entered prior to the government putting those countries on a list, even entered the U.S. illegally by crossing a land border. Two of them were arrested within hours of doing so, two other received asylum, and none of them crossed the Mexican border. Our above evidence is based on past events. The futu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 17, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier, Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Does the Migrant Caravan Pose a Serious Terrorism Risk?
Yesterday, President Trumptweeted that “unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in” with themigrant caravan approaching the U.S. border. Vice President Pencelater tried to justify President Trump ’s comment by arguing that, “It is inconvincible that there are not people of Middle Eastern descent in a crowd of more than 7,000 people advancing toward our border.” Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studieswrote that “the president was obviously referencing … ‘special interest aliens’ … U.S.-bound migrants moving along well-established Latin America smuggling routes from [Muslim] countries.” Perhaps...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 23, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Does the Migrant Caravan Pose a Terrorism Risk?
Yesterday, President Trumptweeted that “unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in” with themigrant caravan approaching the U.S. border. Vice President Pencelater tried to justify President Trump ’s comment by arguing that, “It is inconvincible that there are not people of Middle Eastern descent in a crowd of more than 7,000 people advancing toward our border.” Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studieswrote that “the president was obviously referencing … ‘special interest aliens’ … U.S.-bound migrants moving along well-established Latin America smuggling routes from [Muslim] countries.” Perhaps...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 23, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Angle Shades – Phlogophora meticulosa
I think the name of this moth, Angle Shades, would make a great name for a progressive rock band, their first album would, of course, be “Phlogophora meticulosa”. The species gets its common name from its characteristic forewing markings. The base colour is buff, brown towards the edge of the wing most distant from the body, the termen.
Angle Shades is marked with a bold V-shaped pink and green marking. Overall, the colouration and angular markings create a disruptive camouflage. To my eye seeing this moth for the first time in the trap on the morning of 2018-08-06 it looked very much like a small autumnal ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 7, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Guide to the Diversity Visa: Demographics, Criminality, and Terrorism Risk
ConclusionThe diversity visa is a relatively small green card category that has allowed in about a million legal immigrant principals since 1993, or about 5 percent of the total. As far as we know, immigrants who entered on the diversity visa are responsible for committing one terrorist attack on U.S. soil that murdered eight people. Foreign-born people from countries that have sent many diversity visa immigrants to the United States have lower incarceration rates than native-born Americans. Calls to end the diversity visa based on a single deadly terrorist attack are premature. Table 1Diversity Visa Admissions by ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Rabies and Leishmaniasis in Algeria
Although high rates of rabies and leishmaniasis in Boghni district, Algeria could reflect a common dog reservoir (http://www.promedmail.org/post/5379441) , reporting statistics on a national level do not suggest that the diseases are related. See chart:
The post Rabies and Leishmaniasis in Algeria appeared first on GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network. (Source: GIDEON blog)
Source: GIDEON blog - October 14, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Epidemiology Graphs Source Type: blogs
Travel Ban Is Based on Executive Whim, Not Objective Criteria
ConclusionFor countries on the list, and for any country wishing to remain off the list, it is vitally important that they understand which factors led to their inclusion or exclusion. If the United States is acting in good faith —seeking to change behavior as opposed to looking for an excuse to ban people—its criteria should be clearly explained and understood. The Iran nuclear deal, for example, hasvery precise requirements for Iran to avoid sanctions, down to the exact percentage of purity for its enriched uranium. This is very far from the case here.No consistent combination of factors or mitigating factors trigger...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 9, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Hypocrisy on Election Interference
In his press conference last month, President Barack Obama sternlyvoiced concern about “potential foreign influence in our election process.”The goal may be a valid one, but it cloaks hypocrisy of staggering proportions. The United States has been assiduously intervening in foreign elections for decades —perhaps even for centuries.The central issue in the 2016 election was with some hacked emails, published by Wikileaks, indicating that some top members of the Democratic National Committee were rooting for Hillary Clinton to win their party ’s nomination for president. This seems to have been the extent of the “i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 4, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: John Mueller Source Type: blogs
