The National Academy of Vector Borne Diseases (NAVBD) was founded at Bhubaneswar in 1994, by Dr AP Dash, along with 15 like-minded scientists from all over India. NAVBD is a non-profit academic organization in India, dedicated to advancing and promoting knowledge on vectors and vector-borne diseases, and encouraging scientists and members of the academy to conduct research on vectors and vector...

This study reviews microbial quality of ready-to eat foods; specifically food safety, basic Hazard Analysis and Critical Point [HACCP] and public perception of food borne diseases. Others include the vulnerable group of food borne diseases, bacterial food borne diseases, causes of food borne diseases. The objective of this study is to review the microbial quality of vended foods in urban school...

Climate change is a major issue facing humanity, and the most common method for growing rice manual puddled transplanted (PTR). Direct-seeded (DSR) becoming increasingly popular due to its reduced methane emissions labour costs. However, there are drawbacks this transition, such as an increase in weeds, herbicide resistance, nitrous oxide emissions, nutritional disorders, soil-borne diseases. T...

Accepted : May, 2010 Use of chemicals in crop production is unavoidable. However, their excessive use is creating health problem due to pollution of air, water and soil, i.e., environment and food product, now under IPM strategies biopesticides and botanical pesticides have emerged as a eco-friendly approach to protect environment for sustainable agriculture and life on the plant (Tiwari, 1995)...

In recent years, the prevalence of tick-borne bacterial diseases has significantly increased in European countries. The emergence and reemergence of these illnesses are attributed to changes in the environment and human behavior. Several diseases are caused by bacteria initially isolated from ticks and subsequently considered pathogenic. It is necessary to consider the bacteria found in arthrop...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the frequencies of asbestos-related benign pleural diseases in villagers environmentally exposed to asbestos and the factors affecting these frequencies. A field-based, cross-sectional study was designed. In total, 991 villagers from 10 villages, randomly chosen from 67 villages with known use of asbestos-containing white soil in central Anatolia ...

Recent studies have shown that introduced exotic plant species may be released from their native soil-borne pathogens, but that they become exposed to increased soil pathogen activity in the new range when time since introduction increases. Other studies have shown that introduced exotic plant species become less dominant when time since introduction increases, and that plant abundance may be c...