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Category: One Health

There’s a lot of back and forth between people, animals, microorganisms, the environment, and a growing realization of the importance of zoonotic diseases to human health.

The One Health initiative seeks to bring attention to the links between all of these entities. For more info, see the One Health Initiative homepage.

shows a ferocious looking shark near a shipwreck. As climate change causes the oceans to warm, more sharks are spending time near people.
Posted inEnvironmental Health

Youth Climate Stories – Animals Adapt to a Changing Climate

by Editor July 8, 2021October 12, 2021

North Carolina is no stranger to the hurricanes, tropical storms, widespread flooding, tornadoes, droughts and other severe weather events that seem all too common amid the fast-changing climate. This week, many eyes were on Elsa, which developed into the fifth named storm of the 2021 hurricane season on July 1 between the coast of Africa […]

shows a grouping of hot dog shaped bacteria, each with a single hairlike appendage, called a flagellum. It's a picture of vibrio vulnificus
Posted inInfectious Disease

Vibrio survivor, wife warn of bacteria’s risks

by Coastal Review Online September 6, 2019September 4, 2019
shows a deer with ribs showing through it's patchy fur, head hanging
Posted inOne Health

Deer chronic wasting disease spread making biologists and lawmakers wary

by Emily Davis June 14, 2019June 14, 2019
shows pieces of a cardboard eggcrate covered with roaches. small speckles dot the cardboard.
Posted inEnvironmental Health

Bug bombs are duds at killing insects yet may pose harm to people, study finds

by Fair Warning February 8, 2019April 13, 2021
shows screen shot of a google satellite image of the Chemours plant, the main source of GenX contamination in eastern North Carolina
Posted inEnvironmental Health

Hurdles to Testing Food for GenX

by Catherine Clabby April 25, 2018April 25, 2018
NOAA photograph of blue green algae floating on water next to a dock.
Posted inEnvironmental Health

Sounding the Toxic Algae Alarm

by Catherine Clabby April 20, 2017July 14, 2017

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