“The phone call came in late one night last year. On the outskirts of Gressier, Haiti, two children were ill. The nurses for MotoMeds, a pediatric call center and mobile medicine delivery service run as a University of Florida research initiative, asked crucial questions about the children’s symptoms. The principal…
A new study from the laboratory of Dr. Anthony Maurelli (Department of Environmental and Global Health and University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute [UF-EPI]) has traced the origin of dangerous new strains of bacteria that present new threats to public health. Bacteria of the genus Shigella are the causative agents…
Several faculty members from the Department of Environmental and Global Health met and spoke with Marky Kessa, Mayor of Jacmel, Haiti during his recent visit to Gainesville. Jacmel is a longtime sister city of Gainesville, and Mayor Kessa was in town to attend the Greater Gainesville International Gala, on Saturday, December 9. Dr.
Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1, responsible for epidemic cholera, was accidentally introduced in Haiti in October, 2010. Since its introduction, more than 700,000 cases have been reported with over 8,000 deaths. V. cholerae is ubiquitous to aquatic environments, and humans acquire the infection upon consumption of food and/or water contaminated with…
