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Does "Susto" Really Exist? Indigenous Knowledge and Fright Disorders Among Q'eqchi' Maya in Belize
This article questions if "susto" as understood in cultural psychiatric terms, especially in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM), is in fact a single "cultural concept of distress." There is extensive cross-cultural and intracultural variability regarding fright-related disorders in the ethnographic literature. What is often labeled "susto" may be in reality a variety of distinct disorders, or lacking in the two signature components found in the cultural psychiatric literature: the existence of a "fright," and subsequent soul loss. There has been significant polysemic and geo...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - March 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: James B Waldram Andrew R Hatala Source Type: research

Oral susceptibility to ivermectin is over fifty times greater in a wild population of Anopheles albimanus mosquitoes from Belize than the STECLA laboratory reference strain of this mosquito
The STECLA strain of Anopheles albimanus has been in continuous colony for many years and is the reference strain on which genomic studies for the species are based. Recently, the STECLA strain was demonstrated t... (Source: Malaria Journal)
Source: Malaria Journal - March 4, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Staci M. Dreyer, Kelsey J. Morin, Marla Maga ña, Marie Pott, Donovan Leiva, Nicole L. Achee, John P. Grieco and Jefferson A. Vaughan Tags: Research Source Type: research

Cultivating health: diabetes resilience through neo-traditional farming in Mopan Maya communities of Belize
This article is based on long-term ethnographic research and interviews in Maya Mountains Reservation (MMR) communities in southern Belize, an area with low diabetes prevalence relative to national and global populations. Research participants see lower rates of diabetes in the MMR as the result of neo-traditional peasant and subsistence farming on ancestral lands. Good metabolic health represents the embodiment of food systems that routinize healthy material and social relationships to the landscape. This research suggests that diabetes is endemic to modern food systems and proposes neo-traditional food ways as a societal...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - March 1, 2022 Category: Food Science Source Type: research

A new coccidian (apicomplexa: eimeriidae) in the critically endangered central american river turtle (dermatemys mawii) in belize
J Parasitol. 2022 Jan 1;108(1):93-99. doi: 10.1645/21-44.ABSTRACTAs part of a biannual health examination, coprological samples from 3-mo-old Central American river turtles, Dermatemys mawii (Gray, 1847) in a breeding program in Belize, Central America, revealed a previously undescribed coccidian (Apicomplexa) in 17 of 46 (37%) samples. Of 3 positive fecal samples transported to the University of Florida, coccidian oocysts were observed in 1 sample. Sporulated oocysts were measured and described, and using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), an approximately 400-base pair (bp) region of both the small subunit (18S) ribosomal ...
Source: The Journal of Parasitology - February 22, 2022 Category: Parasitology Authors: Elliott R Jacobson Robert J Ossiboff Isabelle Paquet-Durand April L Childress Heather Barrett Jacob Marlin Chris T McAllister Heather D S Walden Source Type: research

Mapping of global, regional and national incidence, mortality and mortality-to-incidence ratio of lung cancer in 2020 and 2050
CONCLUSION: With close to 2 million cases and deaths already in 2020, lung cancer has already become a global public health threat. Even with current risk levels and age-specific rates, lung cancer annual cases are expected to reach 3.8 million in 2050. Until smoking prevalence is reduced and ambient air pollution levels are checked, particularly in low/medium HDI countries, the lung cancer epidemic will continue unfolding.PMID:35020103 | PMC:PMC8753949 | DOI:10.1007/s10147-021-02108-2 (Source: Clinical Lung Cancer)
Source: Clinical Lung Cancer - January 12, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Rajesh Sharma Source Type: research

Mapping of global, regional and national incidence, mortality and mortality-to-incidence ratio of lung cancer in 2020 and 2050
ConclusionWith close to 2 million cases and deaths already in 2020, lung cancer has already become a global public health threat. Even with current risk levels and age-specific rates, lung cancer annual cases are expected to reach 3.8 million in 2050. Until smoking prevalence is reduced and ambient air pollution levels are checked, particularly in low/medium HDI countries, the lung cancer epid emic will continue unfolding. (Source: International Journal of Clinical Oncology)
Source: International Journal of Clinical Oncology - January 12, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research

Trace element concentrations in caudal scutes from Crocodylus moreletii and Crocodylus acutus in Belize in relation to biological variables and land use
This study identifies the most prevalent trace element concentrations impacting Belizean watersheds while highlighting the exposure risk to non-essential trace elements in less-urbanised areas or protected areas.PMID:35007829 | DOI:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.113164 (Source: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety)
Source: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety - January 10, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Felix Thirion Marisa Tellez Raoul Van Damme Lieven Bervoets Source Type: research