Exploring the impact of global agricultural production and trade on infectious disease risks Planetary Health Perspective Seminar
The global population is predicted to exceed 9 billion by 2050. Ensuring sustainability of agricultural production and its global supply chains is now a worldwide priority and is a fundamental nexus issue that is vital to meeting a range of development and environmental targets, such as the Sustainable Development Goals, Aichi Biodiversity Targets, and the Paris Agreement.
In this seminar, Hiral Shah will explore the impact agriculture is having on human infectious diseases and what future policy solutions could entail to improve global health, development and sustainability. This talk is aimed at anyone interested in how upstream drivers (e.g. land use or agriculture) impact human health and sustainability. Researchers, students, physicians, public health practitioners and the general public engaged in infectious disease research,
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Vaccines against 10 diseases prevented 37 million deaths in last 20 years
Researchers found that vaccine programs in low- and middle-income countries have prevented 37 million deaths in the last 20 years – 36 million of which have been in children under age five.
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Vaccines against 10 diseases prevented 37 million deaths in last 20 years
February 02, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Vaccine programs in low- and middle-income countries have prevented 37 million deaths in the last 20 years – 36 million of which have been in children under age five.
These are the findings, published Jan. 28 in The Lancet
, of the most comprehensive study of the impact of vaccination programs ever undertaken
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Resurgent COVID-19 epidemics in the US in 2020 have been driven by adults aged 20-49, and in particular adults aged 35-49, before and after school reopening
Reproduction numbers for all age groups were controlled to well below one except for individuals aged 20-49
Across the US as a whole, the mobility trends indicate substantial initial declines in venue visits followed by a subsequent rebound for all age groups
Share of age groups among the observed COVID-19 deaths was remarkably constant
School reopening has not resulted in substantial increases in COVID-19 attributable deaths
As of October 2020, individuals aged 20-49 were the only groups sustaining COVID-19 transmission with reproduction numbers well above 1 in the US, according to the latest publication in