The global nature of the threat posed by new and reemerging infectious diseases will require international cooperation in identifying, controlling, and preventing these diseases. Because of this need for international cooperation, international law will certainly play a role in the global strategy for the control of emerging diseases. Recognizing this fact, the World Health Organization has alr...

BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY Various approaches have been used to investigate how properties of farm contact networks impact on the transmission of infectious diseases. The potential for transmission of an infection through a contact network can be evaluated in terms of the basic reproduction number, R(0). The magnitude of R(0) is related to the mean contact rate of a host, in this case a farm, a...

background: the public health importance of human fascioliasis has increased during last few decades due to the appearance of new emerging and re-emerging foci in many countries. iran, as the most important focus of human disease in asia, has been included among six countries known to have a serious problem with fascio­liasis by who. various aspects of the disease in iran are discussed in this ...

The emerging influenza infections have become a current concern in global public health. Many new emerging infections are reported and the control of these is still not successful. As a new emerging infection, the atypical influenza virus infection usually presents additional clinical manifestations to classical respiratory signs and symptoms. An abnormal platelet count is a common finding in t...

Leishmaniasis is one of the major health problems and categorized as a class I disease (emerging and uncontrolled) by World Health Organization (WHO), causing highly significant morbidity and mortality. Indeed, more than 350 million individuals are at risk of Leishmania infection, and about 1.6 million new cases occur causing more than 50 thousands death annually. Because of the severe...