Sentences with phrase «flu epidemic of»

After Robert Koch figured out that a bacillus caused Tuberculosis back in 1882, and after World War 1 and the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918, Doctors knew what caused many diseases but didn't have the drugs to deal with them.

Without a sufficiently charismatic narrative, casualties will go largely unacknowledged, like the victims of the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 (which caused about twice as many deaths as World War I, but is barely remembered today outside of public - health circles).»

Orphaned at 4 by the flu epidemic of 1918, and again at 10, when age claims the elderly relatives who took him in, Jonah «Jayber» Crow finds a valued place as a humble barber in a Kentucky river township.

But the notion that he thought he had, or could — well, that was the same endurance that put him on the road during the flu epidemic of 1918, when my mother remembered his walking ten miles into town to get medicine for his children.

McCarthy was born in Seattle and raised partly in Minneapolis after her parents died in the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918.

Not exact matches

Sales of the startup's eggless mayo boomed during 2015's avian bird flu epidemic — an incident that revealed much about the fragile nature of Earth's reliance on animals for food.

And the term «the fifth wave» (or «the fifth epidemic,» as it's often called) is the one scientists use to describe the outbreak of avian flu that began in China on October 1, 2016.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president.

A partial but not complete list of worries includes: China melt down, Yuan reevaluation after effects or Taiwan action, global biomedical epidemics, e.g. Avian Flu, or bioterrorism outbreaks, trade wars (China, EU), major hedge fund bankruptcies, a PBGC (Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.) shortfall crisis, major junk bond or emerging market bond default, a bank derivative blowup, Fannie Mae issues plus possible assorted natural disasters.

Secretary Alex M. Azar II of the Department of Health and Human Services began a multiagency news conference on the flu epidemic by addressing the Florida shootings.

And these books don't serve up blind patriotism nor are they revisionist in scope — the stories put a human face on some of our most tragic moments and failures as a nation like Japanese internment, the plight of home children, residential schools, flu epidemics, wars, child labour, the Halifax explosion, the Acadian expulsion, and so on.

A few weeks ago, Washington state health officials declared that we've reached «epidemic» flu levels, and in King County the number of ER flu cases is the highest it's been in five years.

The combined pressures of climate change and epidemics sweeping through intensive animal agriculture such as H5N2 avian flu and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) are growing challenges for industrial agriculture, and workers organizing to demand fair pay and conditions combined with increasing consumer pressure for greater transparency and better treatment of land, animals, and workers, are having an effect.

If there was a flu epidemic, and 60 percent of the country had the flu, it wouldn't make it normal... the problem is growing, and it's growing because there's a subtle war - in America, and in the world - between business and health.

Perhaps the loss of the Stanley Cup playoffs for the second time in history — the 1919 final between Montreal and Seattle was canceled because of a flu epidemic — will cause a modicum of outrage, but certainly there has been little of the visceral fan anger that flared during the 1994 baseball strike.

There was also one year in the midst of the first era of CIF state playoffs in 1919 when those playoffs were cancelled due to a worldwide flu epidemic.

Vaccines keep parents and children safe from preventable diseases, and help stop the spread of illnesses, such as the flu, that could turn into an epidemic or have...

It is the story of a 15 - year - old who is orphaned and then becomes one of the only people to survive a flu - type epidemic across the world.

The flu epidemic is hitting the corruption trial of Governor Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, with proceedings delayed for a day and a half because a key defense attorney has come down with the virus.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has declared a public health emergency for New York State because of the flu epidemic.

The flu epidemic is hitting the corruption trial of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, with proceedings delayed for a day and a half because a key defense attorney has come down with the virus.

If you look at the UK risk register it includes a range of threats from flu epidemics to cyber attacks and natural disasters, as well as the more conventional threats.

Cuomo today signed an executive order to combat the flu epidemic in New York, allowing pharmacists to administer flu vaccines to children ages 2 to 18 to increase access and convenience for those seeking the vaccine as the number of reported cases across the state continues to rise.

Expanding on New York State's previously announced actions to combat the flu epidemic, the Governor also directed the New York State Department of Health to take the following steps:

«As flu diagnoses and hospitalizations continue to increase to epidemic proportions, this administration is doing everything in its power to protect New Yorkers from this especially durable strain of influenza,» Governor Cuomo said.

They discuss the obesity epidemic, the implementation of health care exchanges, hydrofracking's potential health impacts, and flu shots.

As part of an effort to fight the epidemic, Gov. Cuomo signed an executive order allowing pharmacists to give children flu vaccinations.

In the case of the avian flu epidemic that broke out in December 2003 and continued into the fall of 2004, 43 of the 44 people known to have contracted the disease appeared to have done so directly from animals.

As the first few cases of the northern hemisphere's annual flu epidemic are trickling in this week, scientists may finally know why winter is flu season.

The «Spanish flu» epidemic of 1918 kills at least 50 million people worldwide.

She's Margaret Hamburg, 53, the New York City health commissioner in the 1990s and later an official at the Department of Health and Human Services, where she specialized in bioterrorism and planning a response to a potential flu epidemic.

This flu season is turning out to be one of the worse since the 2009 «swine flu» epidemic, CDC officials said last week.

Two articles, one published in Eurosurveillance in 2014 about the Ebola virus and one published in Nature in 2006 about the transmission of the flu virus, showed that closing borders merely delayed the epidemic peak by a few weeks and did not decisively reduce the number of people infected.

[During] the avian flu epidemic in Southeast Asia -LSB-, for example,] important papers on the threatening nature of the disease «went unnoticed because they were published in Chinese - language journals,»» Montgomery notes in the book, quoting an article by David Cyranoski in Nature.

As the centenary of the great flu epidemic looms, we are right to be pessimistic — especially with H7N9 bird flu virus quietly circulating in China

Such information is increasingly being used for predictions, such as the likely location of flu epidemics, election results and so on.

The approach Kawaoka and his colleagues used involved techniques commonly employed in virology for the past 30 years and enabled his group to assemble the 2014 flu virus before the onset of the epidemic.

The device detected influenza A, one of the primary causes of moderate to severe flu epidemics, with 70 percent accuracy.

The prospect that Americans will receive the swine flu vaccine in time to protect them from this second wave of the U.S. epidemic continues to dim.

«There is always a flu epidemic somewhere, and that seeds the annual temperate - zone flu seasons,» says Bahl, but the breeding ground is not confined to east Asia (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1109314108).

Christakis and Fowler report online today in PLoS ONE that students in the friend group showed signs of the flu between 14 and 69 days before the epidemic peaked in the control group of randomly selected undergraduates.

The biggest ever analysis of flu strains shows the world's annual epidemic comes from the constant reservoir of bugs that follow the rainy season around East Asia

What can you do when there's an epidemic of flu sweeping the country and the CDC has warned that the flu vaccine may not be as effective as in other years for this year's strain of the virus?

A few weeks ago, Washington state health officials declared that we've reached «epidemic» flu levels, and in King County the number of ER flu cases is the highest it's been in five years.

Vitamin C: If you haven't noticed, we are in a bit of a flu epidemic right now.

Your own strong immune system is your best ally and defense in the face of a flu epidemic.

When we first meet them, they're lamenting their predicament as outcasts from human society — ejected by the dog - hating authorities after an epidemic of canine flu — and tussling over a sack of maggot - infested food which drops from the sky.

The setting is a future Japan, where a canine flu epidemic sees all of Megasaki's dogs exiled to Trash Island by cat - devoted Mayor Kobayashi.

About five years ago, I came across a newspaper article that listed the five most deadly plagues of all time and the 1918 flu epidemic was one of them.

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.