Word: pathogenicity
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...dinner party, the scene is a strange one. Representatives from biological supply companies hawk arcane apparati—airborne pathogen detectors, emergency treatment kits—from booths along the periphery of the room. Conversation topics range from the banal to the bioanthropological...
...Multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus This is a deadly emerging pathogen usually associated with hospitals. Recently it has started showing up in house pets and horses...
...make the headlines, but if you're really worried about getting an animal disease, you need look no farther than the fluff ball curled up on your pillow. Cats, dogs, hamsters and snakes are breeding grounds for all sorts of microbes. Of the 1,400 or so recognized human pathogens, 61% are classified as zoonotic, or naturally communicable between animals and us. Some examples: Cat-scratch disease (CSD) This is a bacterial disease that cats transmit to people through scratches, bites or infected fleas. More common in children than adults, CSD triggers fever, enlarges lymph nodes and may damage major...
MULTI-DRUG-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS This is a deadly emerging pathogen usually associated with hospitals. Recently it has started showing up in house pets and horses...
Dissembling and stalling by local governments have already allowed the pathogen to spread in Asia--not only in birds but also among the men and women who raise them for a living and the kids who gather eggs or simply kick up infected dust in their villages. "If I had known about the bird flu," says Roongroj Boontang, the uncle who allowed Kaptan Boonmanuj to play with his fighting roosters, "my nephew would still be alive." --Reported by Andrew Perrin/Ben Ya Pad, Karl Taro Greenfeld and Bryan Walsh/Hong Kong and David Bjerklie/New York