Agricultural lung diseases.

Agricultural lung diseases.

Agriculture is considered one of the most hazardous occupations. Organic dusts and toxic gases constitute some of the most common and potentially disabling occupational and environmental hazards. The changing patterns of agriculture have paradoxically contributed to both improved working conditions and increased exposure to respiratory hazards. Animal confinement operations with increasing anim...

Asbestos-related Lung Diseases: A Brief Update

Health risks from asbestos exposures have been evaluated, considering past professional histories when exposures at workplaces were higher than today. A linear no-threshold (LNT) model has been applied, although its relevance is unproven. Fibers are often found in the lungs and pleura of deceased people. Fiber findings do not prove that a disease is caused by asbestos. It is reasonable to assum...

Economic considerations of agricultural diseases.

The U.S. livestock industry is among the most economically viable in the world, largely as a result of consistently excellent health status. This is due in no small measure to concerted efforts to exclude diseases present in many other areas of the world. The United States is free of most Office International des Epizooties " List A " diseases , all of which are so classified based on their pot...

Food, Waterborne, and Agricultural Diseases

International Congress of Airway & Interstitial Lung Diseases (ICAILD 2018)

“International Congress of Airway & Interstitial Lung Diseases” took place on November 14-16, 2018, in Pardisan Hotel,Mashhad,Iran. Hosted in our home city of Mashhad, the second largest city, in the North East of Iran. It is famous for the holy shrine of Imam Reza as well as Toos,the residence of Ferdowsi, the great Persian poet. The congress scientific program presented the best in science an...