Microbial quality of meat processing at slaughter is now one of the most public health concerns because of the frequent contamination with a numbers of pathogenic bacteria in meat products attributing to human infections [ 1].
While the precise figure varies from year to year, approximately 8 10% of hospitalized pneumonia cases in Thailand are attributed to human influenza infection [24], [25].
7 The recent spread of leishmaniasis has been attributed to human activities leading to the exposure of nonimmune populations to infection, including travel and migration, civil conflicts, and military operations.
In part, this can be attributed to human travel activities.
Two epidemiological studies of H5N1 influenza, one from January 2004 to July 2005 [39] and another from July 2005 to June 2006 [40], found that 26 of 109 cases and 15 of 54 cases, respectively, occurred in family clusters Attributing those cases to human infection gives θ = 0.24 0.28.
"How that translates to human infection is less clear". .
We describe the isolation and characterization of a vaccinialike strain linked to a cowpoxlike outbreak affecting a dairy herd and associated with human infection; a similar outbreak attributed to Cantagalo virus infection was recently described (14 ).
To put these figures into perspective, up to 90% of all lung and cervical cancers can be attributed to smoking and infection with human papillomavirus (HPV), respectively.
Tuberculosis profoundly affects human health, with 5.7 million new or recurrent cases reported and >1 million deaths attributed to the infection by the World Health Organization in 2010 (1 ).
Fever, headache, myalgia, and macular rash have been attributed to R. felis infection in humans (1 ).
