BACKGROUND Leptospirosis is a worldwide zoonotic infection that has been recognized for decades, but the problem of the disease has not been fully addressed, particularly in resource-poor, developing countries, where the major burden of the disease occurs. This paper presents an overview of the current situation of leptospirosis in the region. It describes the current trends in the epidemiology...

Countries of the Asia-Pacific region have adopted a variety of structural and regulatory reforms in the telecommunications sector for two reasons: (1) to promote the development of the industry, expanding basic service availability and (2) to further enhance the infrastructure, providing greater diversity of advanced telecommunications services. Where the Asia-Pacific region departs from the ot...

Primary liver cancer, particularly hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains a significant disease worldwide. It is among the top three causes of cancer death in the Asia Pacific region because of the high prevalence of its main etiological agents, chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections. In this region, the incidence of HCC has been static over recent decades. Older...

The Asia-Pacific region was on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving the prevalence of extreme poverty by 2015, but recent dramatic rises in the price of rice and other staples have pushed millions of people back into hunger and poverty. This indicates that the region's food supply system is more fragile and imbalanced than what was previously believed. Proximate causes of...

INTRODUCTION Asia and Pacific region is the largest region in the world with a vast geographic area of land and water, some 60 per cent of the world’s population and includes 55 countries as defined by the United Nations. The countries span a wide part of the globe from Iran and Armenia in the west to French Polynesia in the east, from the Russian Federation and Japan in the north to New Zealan...

In the recent past, myopia was considered to be entirely due to inheritance and there is no doubt that a family history of myopia in parents is a risk factor for myopia in children. The increasing prevalence of myopia, however, has affected populations with no previous history of the condition, such as the Inuit where previously a hypermetropic (long-sighted) population now demonstrates a signi...

Allergic conjunctivitis (AC) represents a spectrum of disorders, comprising seasonal allergic conjunctivitis (SAC), perennial allergic conjunctivitis (PAC), atopic keratoconjunctivitis (AKC), vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) and giant papillary conjunctivitis. Of these ocular allergy types, SAC and PAC are the most common.The most striking difference within this group of ocular diseases is tha...

The tuberculosis situation in 46 countries in Asia is reported. TB is still prevalent in Asia and more than 5 million or 60% of new TB patients in the world occur in Asia annually. Prevalence of TB is high in rural and urban areas, the young and the aged, female as well as males. Because of high prevalence of TB and delay in case-finding, annual risk of TB infection is still 1.5% or more in alm...

Citation: Williams AJ, Wakefield CB, Newman SJ, Vourey E, Abascal FJ, Halafihi T, Kaltavara J and Nicol SJ (2017) Oceanic, Latitudinal, and Sex-Specific Variation in Demography of a Tropical Deepwater Snapper across the Indo-Pacific Region. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:382. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00382 Oceanic, Latitudinal, and Sex-Specific Variation in Demography of a Tropical Deepwater Snapper across ...