Medical Ecology is an emerging science that defines those aspects of the environment that have a direct bearing on human health. The concept of ecosystem functions and services helps to describe global processes that contribute to our well-being, helping to cleanse the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat.

Thus, cholera is a perfectly suited topic for illustrating the usefulness of the Medical Ecology paradigm. The Cholera Organism First isolated, cultured, and characterized by Robert Koch in Germany in 1883, the organism is a comma-shaped, …

Medical Ecology Main Page View Printable Version Many infections are life-threatening, and when epidemics result in large numbers of people dying, it significantly reduces the diversity of our collective gene pool.

Jul 27, 2006 · Infectious diseases account for more human suffering in the world than any other cause. This includes natural disasters and every war that has ever had an impact on the human condition over the past three million years of our evolutionary history.Despite the acceptance of the germ theory of disease, the advent of the use of antibiotics to control these agents, and the …

Medical Ecology Disciplines. Hall of Fame : Environmental Health Sciences. PowerPoint Presentations: Related Articles: Site Map : Links of Interest : Support : Ecology of Rainforest Biomes . Emerging Infections & the Ecotone . Globalization of Infectious Diseases : The Respiratory Viruses.

Baldry D.A.T. (1980) Loca distribution and ecology of Glossina palpalis and G. tachinoides in forest foci of west African human trypanosomiasis, with special reference to associations between peri-domestic tsetse and their hosts.

Remote sensing technologies have allowed medical ecologists to view vast areas of malaria transmission, and has provided a new and important tool for mapping the breeding habitats of infected mosquitoes, predicting densities of vector species, and even developing risk maps for malaria transmission.

Jan 23, 2006 · A wide range of virus subtypes have been discovered in wild and domesticated animals, most notably in pigs, horses, turkeys, and ducks. Feral and domesticated ducks harbor an enormous array of antigenic types and may play a …

Medical Ecology is an amalgam of principles borrowed from a wide variety of basic and applied sciences. This new hybrid science focuses on issues of human health in which environmental disturbances plays a central role.

The ecology of schistosomiasis includes tropical lotic (lakes and reservoirs) and lentic environments (rivers), and the behavior of people and their domestic animals that live near these aquatic environments.