From Monsoons to Microbes Understanding the Ocean's Role in Human Health (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Attention is then directed to the scientific experts to interpret these events and to make the appropriate policy recommendations. However, this requires an active research community that recognizes the links between human health and ocean processes and nurtures cooperative studies in fields as diverse as physical oceanography, public health, epidemiology, marine biology, and medicine.
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The increasing demand for seafood in both industrialized and developing countries, compounded by the variety of waterborne pathogens, adds to the potential for outbreaks of disease, a threat that may be offset by vigilant public health surveillance. Other public health threats associated with marine conditions include harmful algal blooms (HABs)
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, management of this problem will require research in biological oceanography to study how ocean processes affect the blooms and the distribution of different algal species, in biochemistry and molecular biology to identify algal toxins and the metabolic pathways affected by algal toxins for improved diagnosis and treatment, and in epidemiology and public health to document the association between outbreaks of illness and incidence of algal blooms, and to provide appropriate health warnings. Scientists have investigated the algal toxins in order to understand the pathology of the illnesses listed above and to use these toxins as molecular probes of neural function.
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Following the workshop, the Committee on the Ocean's Role in Human Health met and discussed the major findings presented and outlined conclusions based
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Finally, this report is meant to serve as an overview, not a comprehensive discussion of all the possible connections between human health and the oceans. For this reason, health hazards such as shark bites and jellyfish stings and the secondary effects of pollution and changes in ocean-based food resources were not included in the scope of the study.
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