How Environmental Factors Could Influence Disease And Drugs
How Environmental Factors Could Influence Disease And Drugs Maintaining temperatures above 60 °C for more than 60 min usually inactivate most viruses . The persistence of influenza virus, rhinovirus, and norovirus was reported at 1–2 days, 2 h −7 days, and 8 h −7 days, respectively . Thus, SARS-CoV-2 can remain infectious on the surfaces compared with the influenza virus. Another environmental issue with serious ramifications for human health is climate change, along with the increase in natural disasters that has accompanied the shift in Earth’s climate. The National Environmental Health Association lists climate change as the single biggest human health threat of the 21st century. Public health officials who work in chemical safety often focus on toxicology, which is the study of substances that have a toxic effect on the human body, whether when ingested or when absorbed through natural surroundings. Another important aspect of public health is chemical risk assessment, which inv...