Direct effects of soil or its constituents on human health are through its ingestion, inhalation
or absorption. The soil contains many infectious organisms that may enter the human body …

Humans have evolved with oral exposure to dietary microparticles and nanoparticles as a
normal occurrence but the ever-growing exploitation of nanotechnology is likely to increase …

While our current generation continues to make efforts to remediate and minimize traditional
pollutants in the environment, other “emerging” environmental contaminants are now …

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is a human prion disease resulting from the
consumption of meat products contaminated by the agent causing bovine spongiform …

A naturally occurring transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of mule deer was first
reported in Colorado and Wyoming in 1967 and has since spread to other members of the …

Livestock mortalities represent a major waste stream within agriculture. Many different
methods are used throughout the world to dispose of these mortalities; however within the …

ABSTRACT A hallmark assumption of traditional approaches to disease modelling is that
individuals within a given population mix uniformly and at random. However, this …

Prions are the protein-based infectious agents responsible for prion diseases.
Environmental prion contamination has been implicated in disease transmission. Here, we …

Soil may serve as an environmental reservoir for prion infectivity and contribute to the
horizontal transmission of prion diseases (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies …

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal disease of deer, elk, and moose transmitted
through direct, animal-to-animal contact, and indirectly, via environmental contamination …