Sentences with phrase «african epidemic»

Roberta Smith, who in 1993 wrote for the New York Times Weekend in Review, «This exhibition exemplifies what seems to have become the New Museum's house style: a display of rather antiseptic, Conceptual - based artworks organized around a theme that is top - heavy with theory» continues to review the museum's exhibitions; Palestine remains under occupation; and while the cultural perception of AIDS has changed, from «gay cancer» to an African epidemic, the disease rages on world - wide.

In the current West African epidemic, animals have not been found to be a factor in ongoing Ebola transmission.

The new analysis assessed 25 factors that could have contributed to the spread and duration of the West African epidemic.

An international effort to analyze the entire database of Ebola virus genomes from the 2013 — 2016 West African epidemic reveals insights into factors that sped or slowed the rampage and calls for using real - time sequencing and data - sharing to contain future viral disease outbreaks.

They believe this mouse model can be promptly implemented to find genetic markers, conduct meticulous studies on how symptoms originate and take hold, and evaluate drugs and that have broad spectrum anti-viral activities against all Zaire ebolaviruses, including the one responsible for the current West African epidemic.

Such cases could make it harder to finally snuff out the West African epidemic.

The largest outbreak in history — the 2013 - 16 Western African epidemic — caused more than 11,000 deaths and infected more than 29,000 people.

The Ebola virus had more opportunities to mutate during the West African epidemic than ever before.

This means unknown numbers of the 17,000 people who survived the West African epidemic could pose an infection risk for some time.

This provided a means to distinguish between a synthetic version of the Zaire strain of Ebola — the one responsible for the West African epidemic — and a synthetic version of another known as the Sudan strain.

We in the West need to get past seeing African epidemics as American epidemics.

Not exact matches

The African aid's epidemic is just God's way of clearing away the sinners to them, the prejudged, the cursed, the afflicted, the gays, all just a problem of human waste to them, and yet they fight tooth and nail to save a few centimeters of cell's on some person they don't knows uterine wall.

«The way the crack epidemic was handled, it unfairly impacted the African - American community.

Investigating the zoonotic origin of the West African Ebola epidemic.

In order to project the impact of proposed cutbacks to U.S. - funded programs in South Africa, which has the greatest prevalence of HIV infection of any country, and the west African nation of Côte d'Ivoire, which has a different kind of epidemic and a different level of foreign aid dependency, the researchers used a widely - published mathematical model along with epidemiologic and cost data from each country to project the outcomes of potential programmatic responses.

Volunteers from the West African diaspora are uniquely qualified to help with the Ebola epidemic, said Charles Dean, also with US Diversified Power Company.

Tinderbox By Craig Timberg & Daniel Halperin Patient zero in the aids epidemic may have been an African porter traveling cross-continent with a European caravan, sometime around 1900.

«The vast majority of scientifically collected data and analysis continues to support the case that the major driving factor for the African AIDS epidemic is sexual transmission,» he says.

Responding to a call for help from African ministers of health after one of the worst epidemics of meningitis ever seen, WHO and PATH partnered to form MVP in 2001, which for over 14 years led the development, licensure, and introduction of a new vaccine against meningitis A.

Five of London Zoo's greater kudus — a type of African antelope — have now been diagnosed as having BSE, the «mad cow disease» that has become epidemic in Britain.

South African leader was initially silent on epidemic, but ultimately became influential voice

A week after sharp criticism met the U.S. military's announcement that it planned to help Liberia combat its Ebola epidemic with a «deployable hospital» that has a mere 25 beds, U.S. President Barack Obama tomorrow plans to unveil dramatic new efforts to assist the West African countries besieged by the disease.

West African responders worked in large numbers from the early stages of the epidemic right through to its conclusion, and were undoubtedly at the highest risk.

If those data are positive, efficacy trials could start as early as January in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, the three West African countries hard hit by the epidemic.

The slowdown in the West African Ebola epidemic is welcome news — but it's also creating a new problem.

Now, a new simulation suggests the longer prison sentences that African - Americans often receive accelerate the rate of «infection» — and might be just enough to tip a problem into an epidemic.

Researchers will test antiviral drugs and transfusions of blood from Ebola survivors in the West African countries hardest hit by the epidemic.

Goulder's research work continues to focus on the South African HIV epidemic.

The West African Ebola epidemic dwarfed all previous central African outbreaks of the virus, sickening more than 28,000 people and killing more than 11,000 of them.

Virus genome analysis has played a bigger role in understanding the West African Ebola epidemic than for any other infectious disease outbreak for two reasons: modern advances in sequencing technologies and scientists who were unusually willing to share data.

In addition, the script adds enough plots to fill a whole rack at the airport Barnes & Noble: looming epidemics, African civil wars, sinister businessmen cutting backroom deals, even a nebulous threat that may destroy all life on Earth if Pitt doesn't save the day.

Straight Outta Compton Film Review by Kam Williams Gritty Raptrospective Chronicles Rise and Demise of Legendary Gangsta» Group Back in the Eighties, the CIA began orchestrating the introduction of crack - cocaine to African - American communities all across America, starting with the South Central L.A.. By the middle of the decade, the epidemic had turned Compton into a godforsaken wasteland rife with drug addiction and crime.

Although the last Ebola outbreak was far from pandemic proportions (a global disease outbreak), the panic - level reactions in the western media to this currently West - African based epidemic gave many the impression that we were facing a crisis on the level of Spanish flu.

After losing her parents in the African influenza epidemic of 1919, Rachel is at the mercy of her plotting neighbors, the Pritchards.

Goldblatt continues to explore the consciousness of South African society today, looking at the condition of race relations after the end of apartheid while also tackling other contemporary issues, such as the influence of the AIDS epidemic.

Though as turned on and tuned in as any other Millennials on Earth, young Africans must also contend with the legacies of recent wars, famines, and epidemics.

The sitter is a gay man from the southern African country of Swaziland, where Meyer traveled to document the HIV / AIDS epidemic.

On the other side of the continent, in the West African Sahel, nomadic herders are at risk of many infectious diseases including epidemic malaria and bacterial meningitis (both deadly to non-immune populations and thus the cause of catastrophic health problems that severely hamper social and economic development in the region).

The NOMADE study aims to inform regional epidemic control initiatives spanning six West African countries from Mauritania to Chad, which aim to dramatically improve health and economic development prospects in this semi-arid region.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Conservationists from leading African organizations are appealing to internet retail giant Rakuten to immediately cease sales of elephant ivory products during the current poaching epidemic.

The blockchain epidemic has not bypassed some African countries and Latin America.

The incidence of HIV has reached epidemic proportions in Washington, DC, where African - American women, men and adolescents represented more than 80 percent of people with new diagnoses of HIV between 2001 and 2006.

By Kellie Bisset Ebola: a study in disadvantage More than 900 people have died in the West African Ebola epidemic from a total of just ove... Read more

The HIV epidemic has disproportionately affected minorities in the United States, especially Hispanics and African Americans (CDC - P, 2004b).