Sentences with phrase «during a disease outbreak»

Genomic data about individuals and groups might be consulted during disease outbreaks, in planning for public health programs, or in developing new or assessing existing public health policies; for instance, where are the hotspots for infection (and are these associated with specific pathogen or host genomics), where should vaccines be deployed most urgently, which therapies should be offered to which genomic populations, and where should treatment programs, isolation policies or public health control programs be implemented to halt the spread of infections?

Rapid sequencing of RNA / DNA from pathogen samples obtained during disease outbreaks provides critical scientific and public health information.

I've traveled to many supposedly «unsafe» countries either just before or just after International incidents, or during disease outbreaks or to countries that are supposedly unsafe and dangerous for travelers for whatever reason.

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All three men have been critical of de Blasio's tenure, with Stringer conducting stinging audits of the city's shelter system, Kelly making an unfounded accusation that the city was cooking crime statistics and Diaz questioning the mayor's management and leadership during a deadly outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in The Bronx.

He said West Africa demonstrated maximum unity during the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, explaining that it would be expedient to exhibit the same level of unity and cooperation to tackle other nagging issues on the continent.

He cited homelessness, the criminal justice system and mental health care as issues that The Bronx continues to struggle with, and although he criticized the city for its handling of the homelessness issue, his overall tone was milder than in his 2016 speech, when he hinted at a run for mayor and said the city had «failed» the borough during its outbreak of Legionnaires» disease.

But occasionally, such as during isolated outbreaks in a refugee crisis, the world receives a vivid reminder of how the disease still affects people.

Europe does not have a similar real - time tracking system, although Denis Coulombier of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control says that the existing European surveillance system has worked reasonably well during this outbreak.

During the outbreak, the disease spread over a 400 - kilometer stretch along Florida's coast and hit 16 other coral species.

While tropical temperatures appear to contribute, historical outbreaks of yellow fever and dengue in the United States as far north as New England show that mosquitos can indeed carry and transmit disease in more temperate climates during summer months.

In research outlined in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, scientists at the University of British Columbia and the B.C. Centre for Disease Control used genetic sequencing to trace the 2010 measles outbreak, linking it back to an influx of visitors during the Winter Olympics.

He said: «During the Ebola outbreak, between 2013 & 2016, over 28,500 individuals contracted the disease with a mortality rate of 39.5 %.

During the Ebola outbreak in Africa in 2014, patients tested for the disease had to provide a blood sample fortesting in a specialist lab by highly trained staff., There are only a few of these facilities in the world, including Public Health England's Lab in Porton Down in the UK, with each diagnosis of the Ebola virus genome taking between5 - 8 hours to confirm.

In fact, it came as a surprise to many in Britain that people can catch the disease — including Paul Stamper, the first confirmed patient during the current outbreak.

The agent belongs to the coronavirus group, which includes several common cold viruses but also the virus that causes SARS, a severe disease that killed more than 700 people during a fast - moving global outbreak in 2002 and 2003 before it was contained.

During the first outbreak, no one knew what kind of disease it was nor how to treat it, he said.

Cases of the deadly infectious disease went from over 250,000 during an outbreak in 1996 to just 80 confirmed cases in 2015 among countries that had not yet conducted mass immunization campaigns and among those unvaccinated, scientists at the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP) Closure Conference reported.

Helen cut her infectious diseases teeth during Toronto's SARS outbreak in 2003 and spent the summer of 2004 embedded at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

To better understand chikungunya infection rates in the blood supply, BSRI, in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Puerto Rico Blood Banks, Creative Testing Solutions and Hologic, a company that manufactures blood screening assays, recently completed a large study that documented very high rates of infected donations during the 2014 outbreak in Puerto Rico which infected nearly 25 % of the territory's population.

For the paper, «Transmission dynamics and control of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Nigeria, July - September, 2014,» published today in Eurosurveillance, researchers used epidemic modeling to project the size of the outbreak in Nigeria if control interventions had been implemented during various time periods after the initial case and estimated how many cases had thus been prevented by early initiation of interventions.

Data indicate that the Legionnaires» outbreak at a local hospital alone could not account for the increase in Legionnaires» disease cases that occurred in Flint during the water crisis.

Based on a detailed statistical analysis of multiple datasets, the Flint Area Community Health and Environment Partnership (FACHEP) research team found that the majority of Legionnaires» disease cases that occurred during the 2014 - 15 outbreak in Genesee County, Michigan, can be attributed to the change in of the City of Flint's drinking water supply to the Flint River.

During every recent human outbreak of the Ebola virus — which often causes victims to bleed to death — gorilla carcasses have turned up in nearby forests, but scientists were uncertain about the extent of the disease's impact.

In research outlined today in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, scientists at the University of British Columbia and the B.C. Centre for Disease Control used genetic sequencing to trace the 2010 measles outbreak, linking it back to an influx of visitors during the Winter Olympics.

University of Tokyo researchers have developed a real - time statistical method to estimate death risk (i.e., the probability of death given infection) and identify risk factors of death during an infectious disease outbreak.

This method will be useful when the death risk of a novel infectious disease has to be quantified using data from small numbers of patients during the course of an outbreak, providing information on which age groups to minimize exposure in hospitals, nursing homes and daycare facilities.

Some individuals may be better suited than others to work in high - risk job placements during an infectious disease outbreak because they are more likely to have an adequate response to a vaccine, or because their genotype is associated with a lower risk of developing severe infection.

tomato collected during a recent outbreak of bacterial speck disease in New York.

tomato collected during a recent outbreak of bacterial speck disease in New York; and 2) Identifying and characterizing immunity - associated genes from wild relatives of tomato.

He also served as acting director for the CDC and acting administrator for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry from January to June 2009, during which time he led the CDC's response to the H1N1 influenza outbreak.

This tool has huge promise for detecting diseases like Zika, Ebola, or the flu during an outbreak.

Lymelife (R for profanity, sexuality, violence and drug use) Coming - of - age drama set during an outbreak of Lyme disease in the late Seventies in a Connecticut town where an innocent 15 year - old's (Rory Culkin) life is turned upside - down when he falls in love with the girl next - door (Emma Roberts) at the same time his parents (Alec Baldwin and Jill Hennessy) separate and his soldier brother (Kieran Culkin) receives orders to ship out overseas.

Schools often become a focus of concern during high - profile disease outbreaks.

Those that did not contract the disease during the initial outbreak are still very susceptible.

Although this disease can be spread at any time, incidents of tularemia tend to be higher during warmer months, when temperatures are favorable for tick outbreaks.

Red Flags Medical Conditions — To stop disease outbreaks before they start, shelter staff should look for symptoms of infectious disease in individual animals during daily rounds.

In this issue: Harnessing the power of your workers» suggestions, one man's mission to ensure humane euthanasia, disaster planning for rescue groups, how to cope during an infectious disease outbreak, and more.

In most influenza situations, it is the very young and very old who experience the most severe disease but during the H3N2 outbreak, most infected dogs were healthy and middle - aged.

Humoral immune responses to phocine herpesvirus - 1 in Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardsi) during an outbreak of clinical disease.

Somewhat surprisingly, the idea of a zombie outbreak seems far more likely and believable (even during Victorian times) than Moriarty creating robot versions of himself, or even worse, having his dead body injected with the zombie disease yet still managing to hold onto his personality and mentality.

In 2005, during the hottest average decade on record, 8 low - wind conditions known as «the doldrums» combined with very high ocean temperatures to cause massive coral bleaching in the Virgin Islands.9 This was followed by a particularly severe outbreak of at least five coral diseases in the Virgin Islands, resulting in a decline in coral cover of about 60 percent.9 There is some indication that higher ocean temperatures — between 86 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit (30 to 35 degrees Celsius)-- promote optimal growth of several coral pathogens.9 Other research showed that elkhorn coral post-bleaching had larger disease lesions than unbleached specimens, suggesting that bleaching may increase the corals» susceptibility to disease.9, 10

From about 1999 to 2003, the outbreak was primarily confined to Canada's Vancouver Island, but during 2004 to 2009, instances of the disease spread to the mainland coast of British Columbia, and then southward to coastal Washington and Oregon — all locations with a relatively similar climate of wet, mild winters... If global warming were to blame, the disease ought to be moving northward into regions where it would have otherwise been too cold in years past.

Disease outbreaks and terrorist attacks during the past year have caused many travelers to give more thought to protecting themselves than they have in the past, including buying travel insurance.

As you all are aware that during the first 5 years of child which have very high risk, India is having very high mortality rates and new diseases outbreak keep happening in oversaturated urban indian cities with poor healthcare facilities.