Sentences with phrase «about outbreaks of»

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«Over the last year there have been high - profile news stories about outbreaks of vaccine - preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough.

Newspapers have been filled in recent years with stories about outbreaks of MRSA and sports parents are asking us great questions.

At the precise time when our vaunted education comes to mature development we see all about us the outbreak of man's inhumanity to man in such fashion that our faith is shaken.

The public does not have to worry about an outbreak of Ebola in the city,» Office of Emergency Management Commissioner Joseph Esposito said.

The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) in Paris announced yesterday that it had been informed by Nigerian authorities about an outbreak of avian influenza in the northern state of Kaduna.

He said many experts learned about an outbreak of MERS in a Saudi hospital only when a paper on it appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Reports have recently surfaced about an outbreak of drug - resistant head lice in half of US states.

Based on the novel by Max Brooks, the film focuses on Lane — who, early on, hears about an outbreak of rabies on the television news.

No one in animal welfare or veterinary medicine can have missed the news about the outbreak of a new strain of canine influenza that hit Chicago and nearby communities in the last month.

Not exact matches

A grand jury has subpoenaed Chipotle Mexican Grill in an investigation of a norovirus outbreak, and the chain warned investors Wednesday the fallout from increased media attention about foodborne illness has hammered its sales.

«Consumer Reports is making this recommendation given the potentially fatal consequences of E. coli, the fact that there are still several unknowns about this outbreak, and that no type of romaine has been ruled definitively safe by government officials,» said James Rogers, the head of food safety at the non-profit-run magazine.

Swetlishoff says the outbreak has wiped out 80 % of the region's pine trees, and pine makes up about 40 % of the trees in interior B.C.

Peanut Corp. of America CEO Stewart Parnell testifying in Washington about salmonella outbreaks in peanut products that killed nine people in 2008.

The number of babies born with microcephaly in northeast Brazil, the country hardest hit by the Zika outbreak, has increased about 40-fold from baseline levels in the last six months, according to reports from Brazil's Ministry of Health.

Tory Agriculture Minister Gerry «wise cracker» Ritz made headlines after joking about that wacky listeria outbreak that has killed 19 Canadians, claiming the controversy was causing the government to suffer, «the death of a thousand cold cuts.»

Job growth has been solid for much of 2014, yet the stock market has been hammered over the past week over concerns about Europe's financial footing, the slowdown in China's economy and Ebola outbreaks across three continents.

Late last month, according to several sources, the U.S. Olympic Committee started telling members of Team USA who are concerned about the Zika virus outbreak that they can think about skipping this summer's olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.

Late last month, according to several sources, the U.S. Olympic Committee started telling members of Team USA who are concerned about the Zika virus outbreak that they can think about...

The movable - type printing press, for which Gutenberg is so well known, was invented in about 1450, 70 years before the outbreak of the Reformation.

The outbreak was detected in late October at the Langfield Pastoral Company, about 27 kilometres north - east of Young in south - west NSW.

Even before the beef scandal, Snow Brand Milk had been struggling to rebuild its image following an outbreak of food poisoning that made about 10,000 people ill in 2000.

Using a can of organic chickpeas tucked away in the pantry (for exactly this purpose), my hummus required significantly less time and effort it would have taken me to go to the store and buy pre-made hummus for about $ 2.50 from Sabra (which recently had a listeria outbreak), Cedar's or perhaps Trader Joe's is your go - to brand.

I'm guessing it's much higher than 50 %, which means that it's quite misleading to talk about how the * numbers * of vaccinated and non-vaccinated children catching measles in an outbreak are roughly equal.

My doctor was concerned about a recent outbreak of hepatitis and persuaded me to not get a blood transfusion, even though I lost enough blood that it took six months of taking iron pills to get my blood iron level back to the normal range.

Public health responses to this outbreak consisted of notifying shareholders about the outbreak on three occasions and requiring the dairy to provide additional written notification about the outbreak at milk distribution points.

So far, we know very little about the media in the numerous new democracies around the world except sporadic outbreaks of anger from NGOs specialised in media freedom.

I know that parents and other schools are getting nervous about the possibility of further outbreak of swine flu in their respective schools.

About 80 per cent of the Anlo Beach town is currently covered in water, and NADMO fears the insanitary conditions in the area could cause a cholera outbreak in the midst of the flood.

«We have the best health department in the country, and the best health commissioner in the country, and what you have seen in each of these outbreaks is a calm, cool - headed, fact - based way of communicating with the public and reassuring New Yorkers about what steps they need to take to get the resources they need,» Mr. Johnson said,

Today, the mayor got testy when asked about criticism from a hotel that sources in his administration told the New York Times was likely the source of the outbreak.

Do expect further outbreaks of sledgehammer irony when Tories who have been frothing themselves puce about the Human Rights Act for years rely on it to plead their case against retrospective rulings in court.

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In order to facilitate such a comparative study, there is a need to develop methods for integrating data about events, specific localities, historical trajectories, and social conditions that precipitate acute outbreaks of destructive violence, which includes damage to cultural heritage.

If you have Rocky Ford cantaloupes from Jensen Farms, the farm suspected as the source of the outbreak, or you are in doubt about where your cantaloupes are from, you should throw them out, Frieden said.

About 85 % of the target population was vaccinated, estimates Seth Berkley, who heads GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance in Geneva — enough to temper outbreaks but not prevent them.

The mountain pine beetle overall devastates ecosystems, affecting about 3.4 million acres of forest in Colorado since the outbreak started in 1996

Although Zika's path was documented starting in 2015 through records of human cases, less was known about how the virus spread so silently before detection, or how outbreaks in different parts of Central and South America were connected.

«Social media data have been suggested as a way to track the spread of a disease in a population, but there is a problem that in an emerging outbreak people also use social media to express concern about the situation,» explains study team leader Sherry Towers of ASU's Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center.

The thousands of skeletons originally interred from the mid-16th through 18th centuries at the Bedlam burial ground are expected to provide researchers with unparalleled information about a formative time for London that included the English Civil Wars, Restoration, the last major plague outbreak and The Great London Fire of 1666.

The site is a potpourri of useful material: audio files telling the story of Snow's investigations; an exhaustive collection of Snow's original writing; a vast library of articles written about Snow's legacy; annotated maps of London, including Snow's famous map of the Soho outbreak; short biographies of the major figures in Snow's life; excerpts from books that mention him; dozens of photographs, including images of Snow and landmarks in London related to his life; modern - day scientific explanations of the cholera bacteria; and much more.

After an outbreak reminiscent of the early 1950s, neurologists worry about what's coming this summer.

In reality, only about 20 percent of Hutu men, an estimated 200,000, seriously injured or killed at least one person during the genocidal outbreak, estimates Rwanda genocide researcher Omar McDoom of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

In the past, Meadow says, our knowledge about the skin microbiome came from medical studies attempting to retrace the steps of a single pathogen, for example through a hospital during an outbreak.

As the outbreak in West Africa worsened, debates intensified among scientists, government officials, and company executives about bringing some of these unapproved products to Africa on a so - called compassionate use basis — after all, «something is better than nothing,» Ollman Saphire says.

The epicenter of the outbreak, the densely forested region at the intersection of these countries» porous borders, is home to about one million people, Frieden said.

Spanish colonists wrote at the time that outbreaks of zahuatl occurred in 1520 and 1531 and, typical of smallpox, lasted about a year.

About three - quarters of kids aged 7 to 10 who caught pertussis in Washington State — a major hot spot of outbreaks in 2012 — had been fully vaccinated.

Since official pronouncements about an outbreak often lag weeks behind its spread, HealthMap's gauge of epidemic news online may prove valuable as a predictive tool.

As a result of outbreaks of violence in the nation's schools, concerns have grown about school safety and the overall well - being of students.