Infectious Disease

Evolutionary Lessons From Superbugs

James A. Shapiro | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistant, Animal Feed, Infectious Disease, Multiple Drug Resistance, Metagenomics, Sudden Evolutionary Change, Antibiotics, US Surgeon General, Fda, Plasmid, FDA Regulation, Horizontal DNA Transfer, Science News
James A. Shapiro

The genetics and genomics of bacterial antibiotic resistance and virulence teach us some fundamentally important lessons about evolution. They also pose some significant challenges to scientific explanation.

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Lynne Peeples

'Contagion' Connections: How Links Among Humans, Animals And The Environment May Be Spawning A New Class Of Infectious Diseases

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Factory Farming, Environmental Health, Infectious Diseases, West Nile Virus, Swine Flu, Contagion Movie, Bird Flu, The Infection Loop, Contagion, Deforestation, Infectious Disease, Green News

The first in a series investigating the complex linkages between human, animal and environmental health: The Infection Loop. Bronx Zoo pathologist ...

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10 High-Level Threats to Humanity

Robert David Steele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Catastrophe, Civil War, Poverty, Terrorism, United Nations, Proliferation, Other Atrocities, Inter-State Conflict, Peace, Dictators, Infectious Disease, Threat, Environmental Degradation, Transnational Crime, Charles Perrow, Genocide, Prosperity, Disaster, Politics News
Robert David Steele

Secretary-General Kofi Annan named Anand Panyarachun, former Prime Minister of Thailand, to chair a high-level panel on global security threats and re...

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Strategic Analytic Model for Creating a Prosperous World at Peace

Robert David Steele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holistic, Dennis Meadows, Catastrophe, Tactics, Economy, Technical, Agriculture, Proliferation, Whole Systems, Immigration, Other Atrocities, Diplomacy, Policy, Infectious Disease, Threat, Intelligence, Decision Support, Transnational Crime, Open Everything, Analysis, Operations, Medard Gabel, Society, Security, Justice, Family, Energy, Earth, Strategy, Jorgen Randers, Poverty, Civil War, Participatory Medicine, Terrorism, Limits to Growth, Donella Meadows, Inter-State Conflict, Acts of God, Education, Earth Dashboard, Participatory Budgeting, Environmental Degradation, Water, Health, Buckminster Fuller, Genocide, Russell Ackoff, Whole Earth, Earthgame, Decision-Support, Sanity, Stephen Colbert, Politics News
Robert David Steele

Whole Earth Whole Systems The Earth is a self-contained system in which all elements interact in ways that we humans simply do not understand--witnes...

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Labor Day Lookouts: Beware of Nature-Loving Ticks

Connie Bennett | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Food Addiction, Science, Babesia, Stop Sugar Cravings, Hay House, Infectious Disease, Fast Weight Loss, Sugar Addiction, Lyme Disease, Stop Food Addiction, AOL News, Hypoglycemia, Substance Abuse, Beyond Sugar Shock, Quick Weight Loss, Health, Healthy Living News
Connie Bennett

Be careful as you venture out into nature this Labor Day Weekend. Watch out for nature-loving, disease-carrying ticks which can transmit Lyme disease.

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