Southern Pine Beetle Reaching Outbreak Levels In North Florida
...e most effective way to eradicate the beetle under outbreak conditions isto remove infested pines, an approach that requires the cooperation -- andunderstanding -- of an entire community. Using this approach during anoutbreak in Gainesville in 1994 saved thousands of trees in the urbanforest, minimized use of...New Sensor Provides First Instant Test For Toxic E. coli Organism
...utburst of food poisoning in Japan, and a current outbreak in Scotland that is linked to 10 deaths. Raymond Stevens, a chemist at the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory (Berkeley Lab), says the sensors his team have developed are capableof providing an extremely inexpensive, on-the-spot litm...Experts: Public Will Accept Irradiation In Wake Of Meat Recall
...ries -- foods that often aren't cooked D caused an outbreak of food-borne illness. It also might have avo...ven death in those who consume it. A 1993 E. coli outbreak in the Pacific Northwest, in which hundreds of people were sickened and half a dozen children died, ...Lethal Parasite Prime Suspect In Fish Kills At Salton Sea
... found to be caused by avian botulism. This outbreak resulted in the death of more than 14,000 fish-ea...n for the birds. In August 1997, another outbreak of botulism occurred in fish-eating birds. Over 605 carcasses including 234 gulls, 138 brown...1998 Declared Year Of The Ocean
...t our lives," saidBaker. "In addition, the recent outbreak of pfiesteria in the Chesapeake Bayand the loss of fisheries in San Francisco Bay caused by newly introducedorganisms remind us of the vulnerability of the ocean." The goal of Year of the Ocean is to raise public awareness about theimportanc...DT104 Advice:How To Slow Salmonella Spread
...ry identified DT104 as the agent responsible foran outbreak of bacterial illness in dairy cattle and humans last year at aVermont farm. In what the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) now regards as thefirst proven case of animal-to-human transmission of DT104 in the United States,nearly 10 percent (13) of the...Amphibian Mortality Due To UV Radiation
...h the fungus, saidKiesecker, who reports seeing an outbreak of fungal pathogens in a number ofamphibian species in the last 10 years. Amphibians are ideal species for the study of UV-B exposure, he noted. Many lay their eggs in open, shallow water where exposure to UV-B is high. Typically, a populat...Global Warming Would Foster Spread Of Dengue Fever Into Some Temperate Regions
..., when over 500,000 people were stricken. The last outbreak in Texas occurred as recently as 1995, during an unseasonably hot year. The researchers used three different general circulation models topredict the patterns of global climate change; all three showed that dengue'sepidemic potential increase...Late Blight Battle Goes Online, Marking 150 Year Struggle Since Irish Potato Famine
...mine,was the result of the first major late blight outbreak which turned the vigorousgreen crops into seas of blighted, decaying vegetation in just a few weeks. "Throughout Europe the potato crops failed," says Gail Schumann, plantpathologist at the University of Massachusetts and member of APS. According t...Scientists Seek Early Warning Of Drinking Water Threats
...ates.The most serious was the 1993 Cryptosporidium outbreak in Milwaukee, in which 69people died of complications arising from the outbreak. Harrington's team will take a forward-looking view: Is there another emergingpathogen on the horizon that could unexpectedly threaten public health, in thesame way cryp...Killing Fields: A Bacterial Pesticide May Threaten Human Life
...ts within a year. Goldstein has studied an outbreak of B. cepacia at the University of Mississippi Medical Center three years ago, in which 300 patients were hit. DNA analysis suggests that the infection had passed between patients with and without cystic fibrosis. "It suggests non-CF patients may be ...Study At UNC-CH Shows Chlorinated Water Dramatically Cuts Strawberry Contamination
...iculture-sponsoredschool lunch programs, caused an outbreak of infectious hepatitis A thatsickened more than 150 children and school workers in Calhoun County, Mich. In their experiments, the UNC-CH researchers washed strawberries in thechlorine solution and then used a simple but efficient method of ...Climate Change May Impact Waterborne Diseases
...oday(May 26) that the cost to society of a current outbreak is about $211 perperson. This includes the actual ...es. Added to that is the cost of tryingto avert an outbreak with "boil water" edicts and purchasing or hauling water. "But this is for an outbreak today......0. Outbreaks can be reason for suspicion When an outbreak of a rodent-borne disease now known as the hantavi...U.S. had some explaining to do, says Zelicoff. The outbreak was sudden, it wasoften fatal, and it was confined to a region where military research takesplace. T...At Last, Zoologists May Know What Is Killing The World's Amphibians
...had begun to doubt the protozoan diagnosis.Then an outbreak of the infection began to ravage the National Zoological Park'spopulation of blue poison-dart frogs, Dentrobates azureus, which come fromSurinam. Nichols and Pessier teamed up with Joyce Longcore, a chytrid taxonomistat the University of Maine in Oro...Discovery Of Plant-Like Metabolic Pathway In Common Parasites Supplies New Targets For Therapy
...tion in AIDS patients. A recent Cryptosporidiosis outbreak was traced to the Milwaukee water system. <AHREF="http://martin.parasitology.mcgill.ca/jimspage/biol/EIMERIA.HTM"> Eimeria : a serious problem in poultry, causing losses on the order of $80million per year. About six years ago, researchers...Third Annual Awards For Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Recognize Innovations
...des. For example, Confirm insecticidecontrolled an outbreak of organophosphate-resistant leafrollers on apples in1996. It has been classified as a reduced-risk pesticide by the EPA; a relatedproduct called Intrepid is expected to follow. Rohm and Haas is registeringthenew family for use on cotton, walnuts, pe...Fatal Frog Fungus Found In The United States
...OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OFSCIENCES. The Panamanian outbreak caught the attention of Karen Lips of Southern IllinoisUniversity in Carbondale during a visit to Panama in 1997. Forest scavengers areso efficient that herpetologists typically find few dead animals lying uneatenduring a lifetime of fieldwork, yet L...Weevils Wipe Out Killer Weeds In Papua New Guinea
...as biological control agents to control a massive outbreak of the exotic Latin American weed, water hyacinth, that was threatening the river, the villages which depend on it and the natural environment of PNG. The project, funded by AusAID, is a fresh triumph for Australia's "six-legged ambassadors" -...... Indies in Jamaica,said they investigated a recent outbreak in the Coln region, and testedresidents of that area as well as the city of San Pedro Sula. They collected202 blood samples and found that 47% were positive for malaria parasites.Plasmodium vivax, the milder form, was present in 79% of the infected ...