| multinationals and health: reflections on the seveso catastrophe. | on july 10, 1976, a cloud of vaporized products containing dioxin escaped from a deposit of a plant of the icmesa firm in the northern suburbs of milan. the fallout was deposited on a vast zone in the municipalities of desio, seveso, meda, and cesano. dioxin was not the desired product of the industrial process, but rather an impurity which generally accompanies trichlorophenol, and, to a smaller extent, the products synthesized from trichlorophenol. among these there are hexachlorophene and the ... | 1978 | 103846 |
| transmission parameters of highly pathogenic avian influenza (h7n1) among industrial poultry farms in northern italy in 1999-2000. | we estimated between-farm transmission parameters of the highly pathogenic avian-influenza (hpai) epidemic that struck the poultry industry of northern italy (including turkeys, layer hens, broilers, gamebirds, and waterfowl) from december 1999 through april 2000. we estimated the average number of susceptible farms that were infected with hpai virus by each infectious farm during a day (beta) with a generalised linear model (glm). the hpai's reproductive ratios (r(h); the average number of new ... | 2007 | 17531332 |
| risk factors for highly pathogenic h7n1 avian influenza virus infection in poultry during the 1999-2000 epidemic in italy. | in 1999-2000, italian poultry production was disrupted by an h7n1 virus subtype epidemic of highly pathogenic avian influenza (hpai). the objectives of the present study were to identify risk factors for infection on poultry farms located in regions that had the highest number of outbreaks (veneto and lombardia) and the impact of pre-emptive culling as a complementary measure for eradicating infection. a cox regression model that included spatial factors, such as the g index, was used. the resul ... | 2009 | 18684649 |
| intakes of red meat, processed meat, and meat mutagens increase lung cancer risk. | red and processed meat intake may increase lung cancer risk. however, the epidemiologic evidence is inconsistent and few studies have evaluated the role of meat mutagens formed during high cooking temperatures. we investigated the association of red meat, processed meat, and meat mutagen intake with lung cancer risk in environment and genetics in lung cancer etiology, a population-based case-control study. primary lung cancer cases (n = 2,101) were recruited from 13 hospitals within the lombardy ... | 2009 | 19141639 |
| new incursions of west nile virus lineage 2 in italy in 2013: the value of the entomological surveillance as early warning system. | west nile virus (wnv) is one of the most serious public health threats that europe and the mediterranean countries are currently facing. in italy, wnv emerged in 1998 and has been circulating since 2008. to tackle its continuous incursions, italian national and regional institutions set up a surveillance program, which includes the serological screening of sentinel horses, sentinel-chickens and backyard poultry flocks and the surveillance on all equine neurological cases, resident captured and w ... | 2013 | 24002939 |
| gynaecomastia and premature thelarche in a schoolchildren population of northern italy. | the prevalence and incidence of gynaecomastia and thelarche have been studied in pre-school children and school children belonging to different socio-economical classes in two northern italian cities: milano and mantova. the children selected underwent three clinical examinations in their own school by the same examinator. the highest prevalence (36.6%) of breast enlargement was observed in nursery children until 2 years of age in milano. age and sex specific incidence rates were higher in milan ... | 1986 | 3465163 |
| italian experience in salmonella spp. isolations from 1973 to 1986. | a total of 150,072 strains of salmonella were isolated in italy over a 14-year period. the strains from humans, food, animals and from environmental samples reached the national centre for enterobacteria in rome and the interregional centres for enterobacteria in milan, palermo and pisa to be characterized according to their serotype. s. typhimurium was the most frequently isolated serotype from both humans and food in nearly all the years considered. pork was the source most frequently found to ... | 1989 | 2654574 |
| occurrence of arthroderma gloriae, a geophilic, keratinophilic ascomycete, in italy. | the first european isolate of arthroderma gloriae was recovered from one of 81 soil samples taken from a wheat field in the lombardy region of italy. a mixture of human and horse hair, as well as chicken feathers, were used as bait. the isolate was identified on the basis of its gross and microscopic features and successful mating with a "-" tester strain of a. gloriae. the geographic distribution of this apparently rare keratinophilic fungus is reviewed. | 1990 | 2380883 |
| intervention strategies for low-pathogenic avian influenza control in italy. | italian poultry production was affected by several outbreaks of low-pathogenicity avian influenza (lpai) between 2000 and 2005. intervention measures (im), such as stamping out of infected and suspected farms, controlled marketing, restocking bans, movement restriction, and emergency vaccination, were put into force in the most affected areas of lombardia and veneto regions. these two regions also showed differences in terms of measures applied and timeliness of application. in this study we des ... | 2007 | 17494610 |
| analysis of the 1999-2000 highly pathogenic avian influenza (h7n1) epidemic in the main poultry-production area in northern italy. | we evaluated the effects of risk factors and control policies following the highly pathogenic avian influenza (hpai) epidemic that struck northern italy's poultry industry in the winter of 1999-2000. the epidemic was caused by a type-a influenza virus of the h7n1 subtype, that originated from a low-pathogenic ai virus which spread among poultry farms in northeastern italy in 1999 and eventually became virulent by mutation. most infected premises (ip) were located in the regions of lombardy and v ... | 2006 | 16243405 |
| antigenic variation among avian influenza a viruses. | a total of 16 strains of influenza a virus isolated in 1965-66 from quail, ducks, turkeys, pheasants and chickens bred in poultry farms situated in pavia and surrounding districts in northern italy were investigated from the point of view of antigenic grouping by the complement-fixation test.all strains were antigenically related but not identical to each other. most but not all strains were antigenically related to virus n and some to duck/england/62, turkey/canada/63 and turkey/massachussets/6 ... | 1967 | 5301736 |