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	Forests and Trees for Human Health: Pathways, Impacts, Challenges and Response Options Cecil Konijnendijk, Dikshya Devkota, Stephanie Mansourian & Christoph Wildburger (eds.) International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) (2023) C2 View PDF(1) Download (1) Add to my MEDBOX Forests, trees and green spaces, hereinafter ‘forests and trees’ for short, provide multiple goods and services that contribute to human health. These include medicines, nutritious foods and other non-wood forest products (NWFPs). Globally, at least 3.5 billion people use NWFPs, including medicinal plants, which are particularly important for vulnerable groups and Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs). During periods of crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for forest products typically increases amongst these groups. Forests and trees also contribute to better health by playing a role in climate change mitigation and adaptation, contributing to regulating the carbon cycle, but also moderating the micro-climate, filtering pollutants from the air and protecting settlements against the effects of extreme events such as droughts and flash floods Tags: planetary health, forest, human health and biodiversity, natural resources, response plan, Source: https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material
	Longlist of knowledge gaps in Planetary health Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2023) C2 View PDF(1) Download (1) Add to my MEDBOX The longlist of knowledge gaps is based on existing research agendas published in 2015 or later and expert input from reviewers of the first draft of the longlist. It only includes knowledge gaps focussing on a better understanding of the relationship between global environmental change and human health, and finding an answer to the question of how best to protect human health against these new threats Tags: planetary health, research agenda, human health, environmental change, biodiversity, greenhouse gases, drivers, Source: https://storage.knaw.nl/2023-02/Longlist
	A national survey of public awareness of antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria Chukwu, E., Oladele, D., Awoderu, O. et al. Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control (2020) CC Open external link (5) Add to my MEDBOX Background: One of the objectives of the Global Action Plan by the World Health Organization (WHO) to contain antimicrobial resistance (AMR), is to improve global awareness through effective communication and education. Comprehensive information on the level of awareness of AMR among Nigerian public is deficient. This study was therefore designed to assess the current level of awareness and knowledge of the Nigerian public of AMR Tags: AMR, global action plan, Nigeria, antibiotic resistance, Antimicrobial resistance, awareness, Source: https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/co
	A One-Health Approach to Understanding the Epidemiology of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Lana J. T. (2021) C2 Open external link (3) Add to my MEDBOX American cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a severely understudied and neglected“disease of poverty” widespread throughout Peru. Transmission dynamics of CL are complex, requiring sandfly vectors and mammalian reservoir hosts to maintain the pathogen in a local environment whereby incidental hosts (people) can become infected. We employed a One-Health approach to understand CL transmission in rapidly changing region of northern Peru. We describe the characteristics of 529 CL positive patients from four participating clinics. Using conditional logistic regression, we assessed risk factors of CL for residents of small urban areas through a matched case-control study with 63 patients who had visited one of the same clinics for CL (cases) or other medical reasons (controls). We later enrolled 343 households as part of a community based study occurring in 15 urban and rural areas of Soritor. We found 256 positive humans (n= 914) as tested via the Montenegro Skin Test; we found 11 positive dogs (n = 236) via an immunofluorescence antibody test. Our results suggest that most- if not all- of CL transmission is occurring in rural areas and that urban women and urban children engage in many high risk activities typically attributed to men. We find evidence that prevalence of past infection is highest among rural residents and men. We believe dogs are unlikely Leishmania reservoirs in either rural or urban settings. It remains unknown if the high number of MST positive children in rural areas is a result of peridomestic or intradomestic transmission Tags: NTD, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), Leishmaniasis, cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), Epidemiology, Source: https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/ha
	United against Rabies Collaboration World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO Open external link (4) Add to my MEDBOX Rabies is entirely preventable, and vaccines, medicines, tools and technologies have long been available to prevent people from dying of dog-mediated rabies. Nevertheless, rabies still kills about 60 000 people a year, of whom over 40% are children under 15, mainly in rural areas of economically disadvantaged countries in Africa and Asia. Of all human cases, up to 99% are acquired from the bite of an infected dog Tags: Rabies, vaccine, medicines, infected, neglected tropical diseases, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream
	Overview of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis access, procurement and distribution in selected countries in Asia and Africa, 2017–2018 Sreenivasan, N.; Li, A.; Shiferaw, M. et al. Science Direct (2019) CC Open external link (3) Add to my MEDBOX Rabies is a neglected zoonotic disease with a global burden of approximately 59,000 human deaths a year. Once clinical symptoms appear, rabies is almost invariably fatal; however, with timely and appropriate post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) consisting of wound washing, vaccine, and in some cases rabies immunoglobulin (RIG), the disease is almost entirely preventable. Access to PEP is limited in many countries, and when available, is often very expensive Tags: Rabies, Zoonotic diseases, neglected tropical diseases, PEP, Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar
	Elimination of human rabies in Goa, India through an integrated One Health approach Gibson, A.; Yale, G.; Corfmat, J.; et al. nature communications (2022) CC Open external link (10) Add to my MEDBOX Rabies is a devastating and societally important zoonotic disease, which is transmitted principally to humans through the bite of infected dogs. This acute, progressive viral encephalitis has the highest case fatality of any infectious disease and kills tens of thousands of people annually, with children and impoverished communities being affected disproportionately Tags: Rabies, Zoonotic diseases, infection, vaccinating dogs, neglected tropical diseases, Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-0
	Occurrence of Rabies Rabies - Bulletin - Europe; Rabies Information System of the World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO Open external link (4) Add to my MEDBOX Classical rabies caused by RABV occurs worldwide besides some isolated countries and Western Europe that are regarded rabies free. Carnivores, especially of the canidae family represent the principal reservoir species and are responsible for the maintenance of the infectious cycle and hence for the presence of the disease (see Epidemiology of rabies). While wildlife rabies maintained by different reservoirs hosts predominantly occurs in the Northern hemisphere, canine rabies is by far more important for public health in the developing world Tags: Rabies, infection, Public health, neglected tropical diseases, vaccinating dogs, Source: https://www.who-rabies-bulletin.org/site
	Epidemiology of Rabies Rabies - Bulletin - Europe; Rabies Information System of the World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO Open external link (4) Add to my MEDBOX All lyssaviruses have evolved closely with distinct natural reservoir hosts. The latter are animals species in which a pathogen of an infectious disease are maintained independently. For lyssaviruses, these are a wide range of mammalian species within the Carnivora and Chiroptera (bats) orders with a global distribution Tags: Rabies, animals, pathogen, desinfection, neglected tropical diseases, Epidemiology, Source: https://www.who-rabies-bulletin.org/site
	Can India finally eliminate rabies? A state-level study from Goa offers hopeful signs Prabhu, M. Vaccines Work (2022) CC Open external link (6) Add to my MEDBOX For more than 100 years, the clearest route to elimination of dog-mediated rabies has been via mass vaccination of the animal hosts. It’s worked in plenty of countries. Still, in others, like India, which grapples with a third of the world’s rabies burden, large populations of free-roaming, hard-to-track, often hard-to-reach dogs have made elimination an elusive goal Tags: Rabies, Elimination, vaccinating dogs, India, neglected tropical diseases, Source: https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/can-in

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776 records