Sentences with phrase «in response to outbreaks»

In response to outbreaks of snout fever and canine flu, dog - hating Mayor Kobayashi (modelled on the great Japanese screen actor Toshiro Mifune and voiced by co-writer Kunichi Nomura) banishes the mutts of Megasaki City to Trash Island, starting with his own household's loyal Spots.

In 2003, the government approved use of an injectable vaccine only in response to outbreaks.

The current eLife study provides an update on a study published in 2014 that created a zoonotic niche map used to define areas of environmental suitability for Ebola in response to the outbreak.

Learn how to prevent distemper outbreaks in an animal shelter, how to recognize the disease in its earliest stages, and what to do in response to an outbreak.

In a free Maddie's Fund ® webcast, Sandra Newbury, DVM, Director of the University of Wisconsin Shelter Medicine Program, will help shelters understand how to prevent distemper outbreaks, how to recognize the disease in its earliest stages, and what to do in response to an outbreak.

In response to the outbreak, the company introduced a new set of food handling policies in hopes of preventing similar problems in the future.

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Meanwhile, Christian Aid has said it was scaling up its response to the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.

The charges were brought against the company in response to the Food Authority's investigation into a salmonella outbreak in 10 aged care facilities on the South Coast and ACT between January and March 2015.

Tony Abbott has rejected a complete crackdown on food testing and labelling in response to the hepatitis A outbreak from imported berries, saying it was the responsibility of business «not to poison their customers».

As a man with a penchant for war zone tourism, Levy has trotted the globe in response to each new outbreak of conflict; ostensibly in order to attract public attention to the issue (and, arguably, to himself); each time proclaiming his solution to the crisis within a few weeks of arrival.

Perhaps more importantly, the outbreak of war in former Yugoslavia, and what was widely regarded as the EU's confused, divided and often impotent response to it, not only illustrated the weakness of the EU's political present, but also indicated that regional conflicts had replaced large - scale territorial war as the principal security threat.

Fueling speculation that he will run, Diaz was critical of the de Blasio administration's response to the Legionnaires» disease outbreak in the South Bronx last summer, and his campaign has started soliciting contributions that are the maximum a person can accept for a mayoral run.

Cuomo drew de Blasio's ire last week when, in a seeming criticism of the city's response to the outbreak, said that «we're taking matters into our own hands» and ordered state inspection teams into the Bronx.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, facing criticism that their political infighting could damage their response to the Legionnaires» outbreak in the Bronx, agreed to craft joint regulations for responding to the disease that has killed 12 and infected more than 100.

The Ebonyi Government, on Saturday, blamed the Federal Government for its poor response to the Lassa fever outbreak, which was reported in the state...

A report has strongly criticised the World Health Organization's response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

The Ebonyi Government, on Saturday, blamed the Federal Government for its poor response to the Lassa fever outbreak, which was reported in the state since Jan. 14.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, facing criticism that their political infighting could damage their response to the Legionnaires» outbreak in the Bronx, agreed Tuesday to craft joint regulations for responding to the disease that has killed 12 and infected more than 100.

The city's response to the deadly outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the South Bronx became the subject of the latest clash between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Scott Stringer, as Mr. Stringer accused the city of having had a «laid - back attitude» toward the disease when the first fatalities began to appear late last month.

5Zika vaccine: Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who has been highly critical of the federal response to the outbreak of the Zika virus, used his emergency powers Thursday to direct $ 25 million in state money toward helping to develop a vaccine.

Though residents in the South Bronx have expressed frustration over the city's response to the outbreak and their borough president, Ruben Diaz Jr., criticized Mr. de Blasio for not seeking federal help to handle Legionnaires», officials said the number of diagnosed cases has been on the decline since late July.

In August, Diaz Jr. reportedly phoned Cuomo, with whom he has had a long - standing relationship, asking him to help with a Legionnaires» Disease outbreak that claimed more than ten lives because he felt the de Blasio administration's response was not effective.

There was no widespread outbreak of panic across the United States in response to Orson Welles» 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells» The War of the Worlds.

Speakers included Dimitri Prybylski of the U.S. - based Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Namibia office, who was involved in coordinating the international response to the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa; Markus Theobald of the EU Delegation to Namibia in Windhoek; and Pierguido Sarti, Italian science attaché to South Africa, Namibia, and other southern African countries.

In response to the Ebola Zaire outbreak, several of these vaccines have been fast tracked for human use.

MB - 003 and ZMAb were early formulations used in proof - of - principle trials that led to the more advanced formulation, ZMapp, currently in development and authorized for compassionate use in the West African Ebola outbreak response.

SHEA and CDC collaborated in 2016 to form the Outbreak Response Training Program to guide healthcare epidemiologists in how to maximize their facilities» preparedness and response efforts to combat outbreaks such as Ebola, Zika, pandemic influenza, and other infectious dResponse Training Program to guide healthcare epidemiologists in how to maximize their facilities» preparedness and response efforts to combat outbreaks such as Ebola, Zika, pandemic influenza, and other infectious dresponse efforts to combat outbreaks such as Ebola, Zika, pandemic influenza, and other infectious diseases.

To operationalize the guidance, SHEA will conduct an outbreak response workshop in January, develop and post toolkits based on the recommendations, and provide online training modules and webinars.

«We are building a model for prevention and response should this type of outbreak happen in other communities in the U.S. I would like nothing better than to tell you this unprecedented HIV epidemic will never happen anywhere else.

«New document guides hospitals in responding to infectious disease outbreaks: Healthcare epidemiologists play key role in emergency preparedness and response.»

The ZPIV vaccine candidate was developed by WRAIR as part of the US Department of Defense response to the 2015 - 2016 outbreak of Zika virus in the Americas, and it was advanced to a Phase 1 trial in November 2016.

Last year, Nigeria's northern Zamfara state temporarily banned mining in the state as part of its emergency response to the outbreak of deaths.

A scale - up of the Ebola response is needed at «three to four times» what is currently in place and would take at least $ 600 million and perhaps a lot more to contain it, David Nabarro, head of the U.N. response to the Ebola outbreak, told reporters on Wednesday.

The hard - learned lessons from earlier Ebola outbreaks — early case identification, communicating how to protect oneself and tracking all people who may have been exposed — are challenging to apply in this epidemic, which is hobbled by poor health infrastructure, the massive scale of the outbreak and little funding to mount a comprehensive response.

«If we study humans before, during, and after the plague, we should see how the human genome responded to these repeated outbreaks and the response in bacteria,» Poinar says.

These findings are among the many insights published this month in a special section of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene — AJTMH and PAHO: Commemorating the 3rd Anniversary of the Cholera Outbreak in Haiti: Invited Papers documenting the public health response to the largest national cholera outbreak in modern Outbreak in Haiti: Invited Papers documenting the public health response to the largest national cholera outbreak in modern outbreak in modern history.

MIT engineers have developed a new type of easily customizable vaccine that can be manufactured in one week, allowing it to be rapidly deployed in response to disease outbreaks.

A new type of easily customizable vaccine can be manufactured in one week, allowing it to be rapidly deployed in response to disease outbreaks, say researchers.

The intense global focus on the disease also was instrumental in accelerating the first meeting of the World Health assembly in 1947 in response to a cholera outbreak in Egypt.

Indeed, in response to the latest E. coli outbreak in the United States, the government is now considering a requirement that all fruit juices be pasteurized.

That remoteness makes the response more difficult — but it's also reason to be confident that this outbreak can be contained, Leroy says, because infected people won't travel as much as they do in West Africa.

Recent developments in surveillance technology could enable a swifter, more effective response to potentially deadly outbreaks of disease, a study has found.

They reviewed reports on the recent Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa and say better preparedness and a faster, more coordinated response could have prevented most of the 11,000 deaths directly attributed to Ebola and also the broader economic, social, and health crises that ensued.

They found that shortcomings in the response to Ebola highlight the need to adopt state - of - the - art techniques to detect and monitor potential infectious disease outbreaks anywhere in the world.

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Interestingly, the outbreak strain grew at a normal pace in cultured human white blood cells, apparently by subverting the immune response to its benefit.

But Geisbert, in an e-mail, notes that there are «no current plans to test this in nonhuman primates» and there has been «no official request from any agency» though he and Heinz «are both willing and ready to do whatever is needed to support the outbreak response.»

The WHO filovirus clinical working group, convened in response to the current outbreak, discussed the evidence on convalescents» serum at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, at the end of July, says Bausch, who is part of the group.

Hewlett published the definitive account of the local response to such outbreaks in central Africa in the late 1990s and early 2000s: «Ebola, Culture and Politics: The Anthropology of an Emerging Disease.»

The Chinese team has now applied this approach to understanding the spread of disease and demonstrated that there are four main outcomes one might see with a pandemic in today's world all affected by the government response to the outbreak, the provision of healthcare, the isolation of patients and availability of treatments of the given disease.