Environment Climate & Health
The mountain chicken frog was once so abundant in Dominica, with thousands found across the island, that it became a national delicacy, supposedly tasting of chicken Now, a new survey has found only 21 left in the Caribbean island nation The species’ population has...
The health and economic impacts from infectious disease emergence are substantial Pathogens that are transmitted, or spill over, between animals and people are the source of most emerging infectious diseases in humans Indeed, spillovers sparked five viral pandemics...
By this point, the evidence is clear: The Covid-19 pandemic can be traced back to a bat virus The same was true for the 2003 SARS coronavirus outbreak In such outbreaks, we are unlikely to be able to determine whether the spillover happened because someone ate or...
At this point in the year, we’re all quite familiar with the sounds of summer: the breeze through the trees, the birdsong, the chatter of children playing outside – and the persistent buzz of a...
To help respond to emerging and established vector-borne threats, the Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases (NEVBD), led by Cornell, has received a five-year, $87 million award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to...
Dr Alistair Hayden, assistant professor of practice of Public and Ecosystem Health at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, discusses the impacts of Canada's wildfires in the Ithaca region and New York state, noting how current weather patterns are...
For each person killed by wildfire flames, around 100 will die inhaling the smoke it produces Despite these alarming figures, national spending on smoke management is 600 times less than the budget allocated to fire suppression, mainly due to lack of awareness of the...
Zoonotic spillover — when diseases pass between animals and humans — is a major cause of disease and the primary cause of recent pandemics, including COVID-19 Scientists and practitioners from four continents will gather for a webinar that explores how strategic...
If the world is to reduce the risk of global pandemics, scientists say, we must better manage how we interact with bats, carriers of viruses responsible for some of the worst health crises of recent decades Yet some of the same economic and political pressures that...
It was 1994, and a new virus was killing racehorses in Australia Then it killed a horse trainer who was caring for his charges The virus, called Hendra after the Brisbane suburb where it first surfaced, is a relative of the measles virus Hendra virus has been...
When Dr Lorraine Francis, associate professor of practice with the MPH Program, arrived in Ithaca in 2019, she brought to the Cornell community 18 years of experience in Caribbean public health, including tracking disease outbreaks and helping Caribbean nations prepare...
