As cultural successors, hedgehogs reside in close proximity to humans. Road traffic, lawn mowers and infectious agents threaten the prickly insect eaters. Some infectious agents can be transmitted to ...
The belief that infectious agents may cause certain chronic diseases can be traced to the mid-19th century, when cancer was studied as a possible infectious disease. This effort met with little ...
year and half of all deaths in developing countries, with six diseases causing 90 percent of deaths from infectious diseases: pneumonia, tuberculosis (TB), diarrheal diseases, malaria, measles, and ...