Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, Western blot, and virus neutralization assays indicated that red colobus monkeys in Kibale National Park, western Uganda, had antibodies to a virus that was similar, but not identical, to known orthopoxviruses. The presence of a novel poxvirus in this endangered primate raises public health and conservation concerns.

Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics [D. S. M., D. A.] and Center for Cancer Research [T. J. H., P. R. T.], National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland 20852; Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 [T. J. H.]; and Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, National Public Health Issue, Helsinki, Finland [P. P., G. A.,...

Alien plants have greatly altered some native plant communities and threaten others in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park. The Park contains approximately 405 alien and 375 native vascular plant species. Desultory efforts were made to control alien plants until the 1980s, at which time a systematic program was initiated. The following strategies or actions have been taken to protect native species...

INTRODUCTION Abundant evidence shows that regular physical activity (PA) is an effective strategy for preventing obesity in people of diverse socioeconomic status (SES) and racial groups. The proportion of PA performed in parks and how this differs by proximate neighborhood SES has not been thoroughly investigated. The present project analyzes online public web data feeds to assess differences ...

Division of Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, Department of Neuropathology, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, Department of Histopathology, University of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, Public Health Sciences and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, Memory Assessment and Research Centre, Moorgreen Hospital and Department of Cellular Pathology, Southamp...

Enteropathogenic and Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Virulence Gene Regulation Jay L. Mellies,* Alex M. S. Barron, and Anna M. Carmona Biology Department, Reed College, 3203 S.E. Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, Oregon 97202; Oregon Health Sciences University, L215, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Rd., Portland, Oregon 97239; and School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 140 Warr...

The paper cryptanalyses a new public key cryptosystem that has been recently proposed by Paeng, Ha, Kim, Chee and Park [5]. The scheme works on finite non-abelian groups. We focus on the group SL(2, ZZp)×θ ZZp which was discussed in [5] extensively.

BACKGROUND After Hurricane Katrina, an estimated 200,000 persons were evacuated to the Houston metropolitan area, >27,000 of whom were housed in 1 large "megashelter," the Reliant Park Complex. We investigated an outbreak of gastroenteritis reported among the evacuees who resided in the Reliant Park Complex to assess the spread of the infectious agent, norovirus, and to implement and evaluate t...

Rachel Nadif, Margaret Mintz, Jacqui Marzec, Anne Jedlicka, Francine Kauffmann, Steven R. Kleeberger, 1 INSERM U780, Villejuif, France 2 Université Paris Sud, Faculté de médecine, IFR69, Villejuif, France 3 Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA 4 Laboratory of Respiratory Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Par...

1 Shanghai Research Institute of Acupuncture and Meridian, Yueyang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China 2 Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA 3 Institute for Health Research and Policy, London Metropolitan University, UK 4 School of Public Health, Queensland Univers...