EU Considerations on New Protection of Whistleblowers

Without some of the important information brought into light by whistleblowers, many current scandals would not have occurred.If whistleblowing is brought into the public domain, it can introduce a previously unforeseen and incorrigible milestone in the biography of whistleblowers, leading to Twine financial loss, loss of work, impact on private li

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The Program for the Control of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Brazil: The Effect of the Systematic Euthanasia of Seropositive Dogs as a Single Control Action in Porteirinha, a Brazilian City with an Intense Transmission of Visceral Leishmaniasis

Background: Porteirinha is endemic for visceral leishmaniasis (VL), with intense disease transmission of the disease.We evaluated the impact of canine euthanasia as a single control measure on the incidence of VL in humans and canines.Methods: A prospective observational cohort study was carried out over four years (1998–2002) in 8 of the 12 neig

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