Genetically modify mosquitoes so they can't spread diseases such as malaria and dengue virus.
And they need to be dealt with as they spread diseases and are a health hazard.
However the Californian authorities argue the ban is justified because ferrets can spread diseases like rabies.
The University of Rochester has turned research about predicting the spread of diseases with social media into a web application called Germ Tracker.
Making sure clean water is available will perhaps the most important factor in preventing the spread of diseases like typhoid, cholera, and other infectious diseases.
Health officials say litter thrown on the street is often picked up by stray cows, pigs and dogs which may lead to the spread of diseases.
The hope is that in the future researchers will be able to monitor the spread of diseases while outbreaks are happening as well as getting a better understanding of the disease and how to stop it.
Getting to see what people say and think in real time thanks to public discussions on social networks and websites opens up all kinds of exciting possibilities, from tracking the spread of diseases to assessing security threats.
Foreign doctors and nurses are trying, for instance, to stem the spread of infectious diseases.
Unlike creationists, this refusal to face facts could result in loss of life and the spread of deadly diseases.
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It's exactly like the spread of infectious diseases, and one of the reasons why we vaccinate our children against many illnesses that are now uncommon.
More effective repellents could play a major role in reducing the death toll from diseases spread by mosquitoes, including malaria, encephalitis, West Nile, dengue, hemorrhagic and yellow fevers.
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According to the report, the spread of infectious diseases has accelerated not only because the world is warming, but because nighttime temperatures are rising faster than daytime temperatures.
Health professionals around the world already use online tools, such as Google Flu Trends, Health Map or Global Public Health Intelligence Network to track the spread of infectious diseases.
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But Columbia University Professor Ian Lipkin, of the Mailman School of Public Health's Centre for Infection and Immunity, a scientific adviser on Contagion, is not convinced that crowdsourcing is an effective way to combat the spread of contagious diseases.
About 2.5 billion people don't have access to modern toilets, and this lack of access encourages the spread of diarrheal diseases, which are blamed for the deaths of 1.5 million children each year, according to the World Health Organization.
Louisiana farmers are using drones to hunt invasive wild pigs that carry diseases and spread noxious weeds.
Movie theaters, and the malls in which they are located, are an ideal place for infectious diseases to spread.
These recommendations are prudent measures which can limit the spread of many communicable diseases and not only influenza A(H1N1).
Vaccines against diseases such as measles, mumps, and influenza protect millions of people each year, because these are common infectious diseases that spread easily between people.
Public health crises of the past decade, like SARS in 2003 or the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009, have highlighted how easy it is for diseases to spread around the world, including through air travel.
The hopeful news Dr Bearman's work brings is that it should be easier to stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases through a teenage-type graph than an adult one, since the spindly chains of connection between individuals can more easily be broken.
The geeky do-gooders like Bill and Melinda Gates and the Google boys, their avuncular buddy Warren Buffett, even George Soros with his May-December romances: put them all together and you have enough money to cure tropical diseases and spread democracy but not enough kinks to lift an eyebrow.
There are venereal diseases that can be spread even with the use of a condom including the Human papillomavirus or HPV.
The fear now is that diseases could start to spread, says the BBC's Gary Duffy in the town of Bacabal, Maranhao state.
"Malaria and dengue fever are two of the mosquito-borne diseases most likely to spread dramatically as global temperatures head upward, " said the Harvard Medical School's Paul Epstein in Scientific American in 2000, in a warning typical of many.
Since 2007, countries have been obligated to increase their reporting on a wide range of newly emergent diseases with the potential to spread beyond borders.
What health scientists are telling us is that climate change will bring increased asthma, more virulent allergens, medical emergencies from heat stress, the spread of water- and vector-borne diseases and increased severe weather events.
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