"In this situation, some IAS might initiate complex, unpredictable cascades of effects, " it warns.
It adds that changes to the climate may provide opportunities for IAS to proliferate and spread.
The IAS has convened a working group of international researchers to develop a strategy that might lead to a cure.
After all, Moscow insisted that non-nuclear West German shorter-range missiles (the Pershing IAs) be dismantled concurrent with the implementation of the Treaty.
In the 22 years since the IAS conference has been in the U.S., remarkable progress has been made in addressing the domestic epidemic.
In the coming weeks, the Office of National AIDS Policy is looking forward to bringing you a series of blogs that we hope inform the discussions at the IAS Conference.
The EEA report warns that, given the increase in both goods and people moving around the globe, the "number and impact of harmful IAS in Europe may grow significantly in the future".
According to a report by the Institute of Alcohol Studies for the European Commission (IAS), Europe produces a quarter of the world's alcohol, and the booze industry employs around 750, 000 people in production alone.
Papa Salif Sow, of Dakar University in Senegal, told the IAS conference that the consensus of studies in Africa over the past few years was that 80-85% of people took their drugs exactly as prescribed.
An IAS that poses a direct threat to human health is the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), which has been linked to the transmission of more than 20 human pathogens, including yellow fever and dengue.
After a surge in binge drinking during the mid-1990s, Western Europe has sobered up substantially as greater affluence, education and the professionalization of the work force have changed drinking patterns, according to Ben Baumberg, policy and research officer at the IAS who authored the European Commission's report.
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