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Definitions
- Antibiotic resistance
- Biodiversity
- Bird flu
- Climate change & insect-borne disease
- Desert science
- Indigenious Knowledge
- Malaria
- Reducing forest emissions
- Tropical cyclones
- Tuberculosis
A list of terms related to Bird flu.
Climate change is the greatest challenge facing the world today. Long-term development planning must now include measures to deal with it.
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Epidemic
An outbreak of a disease that affects a large number of individuals within a population or region at the same time. Compare to pandemic.
Epidemiology
The study of epidemics and the diseases that cause them, especially the factors that influence the incidence, distribution and control of infectious diseases.
Information Services
Missed the Global Health Forum 2009?
Our blog, by SciDev.Net columnist Priya Shetty, will fill you in, as will our interview with the Global Forum's Gill Samuels
A climate for disease?
Will climate change worsen the burden of insect-borne disease? The scientific jury is still out
