Scrub typhus is the most common endemic vector-borne disease in Taiwan.We identified a total of 4,857 laboratory-confirmed cases during 2006-2016 with hyperendemic foci on offshore islands, including Penghu (778 cases, 16.0%) and Kinmen (716 cases, 14.7%), and eastern Taiwan, including Taitung (628 cases, 12.9%) and Hualien (508 cases, 10.5%).Scrub
The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) population in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) is perceived to have been isolated from the population in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem for a century.Better land use planning is needed to thwart progressive intra- and inter-ecosystem habitat fragmentation, GPS especially due to private la
Friction stir blind riveting (FSBR) is a new joining method which eliminates the need to predrill a hole for rivet insertion.A new one-sided mechanical joining process, friction stir blind riveting (FSBR) was developed to form lap-shear joints for similar and dissimilar alloy sheets in different combinations.The similar and dissimilar joints are ma
In humans, paralytic poliomyelitis results from the invasion of the central nervous system by circulating poliovirus (PV) via the blood-brain barrier (BBB).After the virus enters the central nervous system (CNS), it replicates in neurons, especially in motor neurons (MNs), inducing the cell death that causes paralytic poliomyelitis.Along with this
Exposure to mercury contaminated fish predisposes populations particularly children and pregnant women to various health hazards including neurotoxicity, reproductive abnormalities and cognitive disorders.Earlier studies in the Lake Albert community have demonstrated the presence of mercury in Nile tilapia and Nile perch.However, the risk estimates