Sentences with phrase «u.s. outbreaks of the disease»

A California whooping cough epidemic in 2010 was one of the worst U.S. outbreaks of the disease in the past several decades.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

Outbreaks of whooping cough, or pertussis, have occurred across the U.S. in recent years, especially where clusters of children have not been vaccinated against the disease.

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.

Pandemic preparedness is not only critical because of the threat of a future pandemic or an outbreak of an emerging infectious disease, but also because school preparedness for all types of disasters, including biological events, is mandated by the U.S. Department of Education.

In 2013, the U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed allowing some importation of beef after the agency concluded that Brazil now has the veterinary infrastructure in place to detect and eradicate an outbreak of foot - and - mouth disease.

W. Ian Lipkin, director of the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, led the scientific team that identified the first U.S. outbreak of West Nile virus in 1999.

Aug. 1, 2016: The CDC issues a travel warning that pregnant women should avoid a specific neighborhood in Miami, one of the first times the agency has done this because of a disease outbreak in the continental U.S.

«To our knowledge, this is the first documentation of an outbreak of childhood lead poisoning associated with artisanal gold mining,» the team, directed by lead experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wrote in the online edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Zika is not new to the U.S. Even as early as 2007, when the mosquito - borne disease had its first large outbreak in the Pacific island nation of Micronesia, the virus directly touched the U.S. — sickening one American traveler.

The Ebola virus outbreak entrenched in west Africa has become a real risk to the stability and security of society in the region, the top U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official said today after returning yesterday from a visit there.

It has been nearly 3 decades since a group of researchers led by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) coined the term «chronic fatigue syndrome» after an investigation of two outbreaks in the United States.

Although this is not the first major health crisis that HealthMap has covered — the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic was one of its largest efforts — the Ebola outbreak has pushed the site in new directions in an effort to provide information for a variety of institutions, including the WHO, the United Nations and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

By doing so, HealthMap provides a glimpse of potential disease outbreaks in local pockets, often before government and other health agencies such as the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) realize they are tdisease outbreaks in local pockets, often before government and other health agencies such as the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) realize they are tDisease Control and Prevention (CDC) realize they are threats.

While microbial forensics holds promise for unraveling disease outbreaks, the FBI's discovery also has political implications: The attacks originated in a U.S. Army lab, a fact that raises questions about security in light of the massive biodefense expansion under the Bush administration.

Other viral diseases spread by the same mosquitoes — including dengue and chikungunya — that have caused massive epidemics south of the U.S. border have triggered only small outbreaks in the United States.

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.

A team of epidemiologists and viral experts from the WHO and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta will attempt to reach the affected area, which is remote and plagued by civil war, early next week to collect more samples and look for the source of the outbreak.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is currently investigating a multi-state outbreak of listeriosis — a serious infection caused by the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes — that's linked to soft cheese.

Future pandemic flu outbreaks would be ranked, like hurricanes, on a scale of 1 to 5, and school closures of up to three months would be recommended for more severe outbreaks, according to a planning guide released jointly last week by the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As flu season continues to wreak havoc and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issuing dire predictions about the number of flu - related deaths likely before the outbreak... more

In addition to her impact teaching students all over the U.S. as well as globally, some of her notable achievements include groundbreaking work with community cats in the early 90s through Operation CatNip; advancing the field and credibility of shelter medicine through disease prevention, outbreak response and prioritizing lifesaving over euthanasia; and more recent projects like the Million Cat Challenge.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is currently investigating a multistate outbreak of bacterial infections linked to puppies from retail pet stores which has sickened 39 people.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA - APHIS), Ohio Department of Health and several other states to investigate a multi-state outbreak of human Campylobacter infections (campylobacteriosis) linked to puppies sold through Petland stores.

Imagine that the U.S. is preparing for the outbreak of an unusual Asian disease, which is expected to kill 600 people.

Heavy rain events may also pose a potential health risk; one recent study found that about half of all waterborne disease outbreaks in the U.S. (between 1948 and 1994) were linked to days of very heavy rain.

According to the U.S. National Assessment on the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, determining the role of weather in the incidence of waterborne disease outbreaks is a priority...

I thought that those of you who like to stay on top of the latest in the swine flu outbreak (which is not the same as rising above it) might like to know that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/cdcemergency.

Represented the United States in UNCITRAL Rules proceedings under NAFTA brought by Canadian cattle producers challenging the closure of the U.S. - Canada border to Canadian beef and cattle following a mad cow disease outbreak.

For example, when the outbreak of Mad Cow disease in the U.S. was resolved some years ago, China took a long time to lift a ban on U.S. imports, and in 2015 only executed a partial lift of the ban.