Sentences with phrase «respiratory syndrome outbreak»

To test the reliability of alternative data streams, researchers tracked and analyzed reports from public health authorities and reputable media outlets posted via social media or their websites during the 2014 - 2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa and the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outbreak in South Korea.

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Deals in the secondary market, as represented by Midland's 35 key housing estates, hit a low of 41 per week, 40 per cent fewer than in the first quarter of 2003 during the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome.

The South Korea outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS, is the largest yet seen outside the Middle East.

Previous studies of MERS outbreaks in early 2014 estimated the infective potential at between 2 and 6.7 in Saudi Arabia, similar to the numbers for severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which has an infective potential of between 2 and 4.

The Federal Aviation Administration established the center in 2004 under a Congressional directive to study air quality problems in airline cabins in the wake of the previous year's severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Asia, which later spread to more than two dozen countries in North America, South America and Europe.

In the last 10 years, outbreaks of potentially pandemic influenza, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, Ebola, and Zika have threatened populations around the world.

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS - CoV) infections have led to an ongoing outbreak in humans, which was fueled by multiple zoonotic MERS - CoV introductions from dromedary camels.

A researcher from the Pasteur Institute Korea in Seoul brought samples taken during the country's outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome on an intercontinental flight last year without the appropriate paperwork, hoping to get them studied at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

Outbreaks of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) raise questions about the prevalence and evolution of the MERS coronavirus (CoV) in its animal reservoir.

A team of infectious disease experts from the University of Edinburgh and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute reviewed the global response to recent outbreaks, including Ebola, swine flu and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

Currently six coronaviruses are known to cause disease in people, but so far only two of them — SARS - CoV and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus — have caused large outbreaks of fatal illness in people.

Last winter's outbreak of SARS — severe acute respiratory syndrome — triggered an unprecedented emergency medical response worldwide.

Yesterday, director Li Liming of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resigned, along with several lower - ranking officials, after a report by a panel of experts blamed China's most recent outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome on a series of flaws at the CDC's National Institute of Virology in southern Beijing.

Sharing has been a touchy topic in previous outbreaks and epidemics, including severe acute respiratory syndrome, Middle East respiratory syndrome, and Ebola.

However, the ability to treat outbreaks of other infectious viruses which are airborne, such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) would be challenging,» said Lowe.

For the second time since the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was brought under control in July, a scientist studying the virus has accidentally become infected with it.

Hospital outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus.

South Korea has closed schools and canceled some public events amid concerns that an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome, known as MERS, could become a pandemic.

In 2003, DNA sequencing at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre in Toronto and at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta showed that the virus causing an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in China was a new variant of coronavirus.

These included Lassa virus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, Marburg virus, and multiple variants of Ebola virus, including the Makona strain causing the most recent outbreak in West Africa.

The South Korean government launched the stimulus spending after an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome cut heavily into tourism and consumer spending in the second quarter.

That's mostly due to an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome that began in May.

The dominant share of this segment can be attributed to the increasing porcine population, growing awareness about animal vaccination, and outbreaks of porcine diseases such as PRRS (Porcine Reproductive & Respiratory Syndrome), swine influenza, and Auzeszkys Disease (AD).

Recently, the outbreak of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) in 2002 - 2003, the Bird Flu in 2008, and the Swine Flu in 2009 served to demonstrate the quick - spreading power of the influenza virus through the convenience and ubiquity of global air travel.