As record-breaking heat scorches the West, some disaster experts say our warning system may not be enough. Many people aren’t getting alerted when heat can be deadly.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is interviewed.
There’s been at least one report of a person with monkeypox who may have passed the virus to a dog. Now, University of Washington scientists want to know how big a threat this is for pets in the Puget Sound region.
Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
The risk of canine cognitive dysfunction, a.k.a. “doggy dementia,” is far greater in dogs who don’t get enough exercise, researchers found. Their risk factors echo some in humans, whose homes they share.
Annette Fitzpatrick, research professor of epidemiology, of family medicine and of global health at the UW, is quoted.
The screening is a part of astudy at the Center for One Health Research that will help determine the rate of monkeypox transmission between humans and pets.
Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, professor of global health and environmental and occupational health science at the UW, is interviewed.
Heat is the deadliest weather-related hazard in the U.S. Over the last 10 years, it’s killed an average of 135 people per year. That’s more than floods, hurricanes or tornadoes, according to the National Weather Service.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is interviewed on NPR’s 1A podcast.
Smoking, drinking alcohol, being overweight and other known risk factors were responsible for nearly 4.45 million cancer deaths around the world in 2019, new research suggests. The new study is the first to estimate how a list of 34 risk factors contribute to cancer deaths and ill health globally, regionally and nationally, across age groups, for both sexes and over time.
Dr. Christopher Murray, Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Director of the UW Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, is quoted.
Seattle startup HDT Bio will develop a nasal spray designed to counteract a wide range of respiratory viruses with a nearly $1.8 million grant from the U.S. Army.
Michael Gale, Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Professor of Immunology in the UW School of Medicine, is quoted. Steven Reed, Affiliate Professor of Global Health and CEO of HDT Bio, is featured.
The ill effects of heat kill more people in the U.S. than those of any other weather phenomenon, according to the National Weather Service. And globally the growing number of longer-lasting and hotter heat waves because of climate change has left people more vulnerable to record-shattering highs.
Kristie Ebi, Professor of Global Health and of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the UW, is quoted.
Dr. Christopher Murray, Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Director of the UW Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, discusses the findings by the CDC and the dangers of so-called "superbugs."
Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax, a study says.
Kristie Ebi, Professor of Global Health and of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the UW, is quoted.