Sentences with phrase «caused outbreaks of diseases»

This in turn caused outbreaks of diseases such as measles.

This sometimes causes outbreaks of diseases such as Cholera in which 1000s of people die, and commonly introduces toxic algae which can cause massive kills of aquatic life.

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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.

For a century and a half, epidemiology has been an effective strategy for tracing the root causes of infectious disease outbreaks — as John Snow demonstrated in 1854, when he painstakingly mapped cases of cholera in London and eventually traced them to a single contaminated well and water pump in the Soho district of the city.

The significant increase in the insect - borne diseases was due in part to the outbreak of Zika, the mosquito - borne disease that can cause severe birth defects.

The outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa in 2014, and the worldwide panic it caused, served as a wake - up call: We as a human race are still extremely vulnerable to fast - spreading, infectious diseases.

Speaking at the time, Sir Leslie Turnberg, Chairman of the UK Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) commented: ³ The vital importance of infectious disease surveillance is clear from the global increase in infectious diseases and the looming threat of antibiotic resistance... The effectiveness of the PHLS is beyond question, and the astonishingly swift identification of the cause of the recent outbreak of salmonellosis from powdered baby milk undoubtedly saved many babies from becoming ill.

Although the City's testing methods did not allow it to determine whether detected organisms were alive or capable of causing disease, no waterborne disease outbreaks were reported.

In New York City, the five cooling towers suspected of causing the outbreak were cleaned by July 29, before the disease had even peaked, and once that was completed, the number of new cases began to decline.

«This summer's outbreak of Legionnaires» disease caused concern in communities across the state, and today we are moving forward to help prevent future outbreaks and keep our neighborhoods safe,» Mr. Cuomo said in a statement.

In the study, a tipping point represented the point at which vaccine coverage declines dramatically due to spreading fear, which could cause large disease outbreaks due to a loss of population immunity.

Collins and his colleagues exposed one culture of Escherichia coli — some strains of which colonize the human and animal gut; others of which are notorious for causing disease outbreaks — to increasing amounts of an antibiotic over time.

The latest outbreak of the Ebola family was discovered in July 2008 as the Philippine Department of Agriculture was investigating «blue ear disease» in pigs, a respiratory condition that causes their ears to turn blue from lack of oxygen.

Resurgent outbreaks of infectious diseases are sickening thousands, and the causes are societal

«Because the bacterium that causes TB can lie dormant in someone's lung for months or even years before it causes disease, we had no way of knowing whether a TB case we have just diagnosed was a recent infection — suggesting the outbreak is still going on — or whether the person was infected years ago.»

CDC has investigators in Mexico helping to sort out why that outbreak has apparently caused so many more cases of severe disease.

A new study suggests that an aggressive reef competitor — the Threespot Damselfish — may have impeded the recovery of Caribbean long - spined sea urchin populations after a mysterious disease outbreak caused a massive die - off of these animals over three decades ago.

Given the symptoms of the disease and the rate of death, «C. novyi makes perfect sense» as the cause for the Glasgow outbreak, says Martin Hugh - Jones, a veterinary epidemiologist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

«Many chemotherapy drugs leave a small amount of cancer stem cells that cause a renewed outbreak of the disease after a few years.

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.

In the 1960s, scientists in Taiwan traced an outbreak of blackfoot disease, caused when dying blood cells lead to gangrene, to arsenic - contaminated well water.

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.

Waterborne diseases are a major cause of illness in developing countries and are responsible for sporadic and localised outbreaks of disease in the developed world.

They searched through 60 years of scientific and newspaper reports to determine two things: first, whether the pathogens cause visible disease symptoms or death in wildlife, and second, whether human outbreaks were preceded or accompanied by evidence of the disease in animals.

Polio is back and close to home — this time in the Netherlands, where a new outbreak has killed one baby and caused at least 22 cases of the disease.

Researchers do not yet know whether the virus is the sole trigger of the disease or whether it has an accomplice, but they agree it is a primary cause of the outbreak.

In fact, he says, the study of sewage and river water samples from Japan demonstrates the relative safety of the vaccine - derived virus: Although virulent vaccine - derived viruses in the environment «are actually a pretty common event,» he says, «we don't see outbreaks» of vaccine - caused disease, even in areas where vaccination coverage is relatively low.

During every recent human outbreak of the Ebola virus — which often causes victims to bleed to death — gorilla carcasses have turned up in nearby forests, but scientists were uncertain about the extent of the disease's impact.

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.

Environmental changes cause stress to our biodiversity, increasing the chances of disease outbreaks, extinctions, waves of invasive species and other environmental problems that can occur in stressed ecosystems.

We're thinking that rhinovirus C might be a major, missed cause of disease outbreaks in chimps in the wild,» Goldberg notes.

Scientists have shown that the first appearance of wheat stem rust disease in the U.K. in nearly 60 years, which occurred in 2013, was caused by the same virulent fungal strain responsible for recent wheat stem rust outbreaks in Ethiopia, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden.

Scientists do not know if the emergence of disease outbreaks is due to the introduction of novel pathogens or due to changes in existing pathogens that may be caused by deteriorating environmental impacts and / or reduced host resistance.

The outbreak regions closest to the United States of leishmaniasis, the disease caused by the parasite, have come within roughly 300 miles of the border.

The April 2009 H1N1 outbreak at a Queens, New York, high school was widespread but did not cause severe disease, according to an analysis conducted by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The frequent occurrence of disease outbreaks in humans caused by group A Streptococcus (GAS) is an on - going public health threat.

Periodic outbreaks of the disease in sub-Saharan Africa, including an epidemic between 2013 and 2016, caused major loss of life and serious economic disruption in the three countries where it occurred: Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

Periodic outbreaks of the disease in sub-Saharan Africa caused major loss of life and serious economic disruption.

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.

In particular, these handouts cover the following specific content about tuberculosis in South Africa: Case study of one communicable disease, such as malaria or tuberculosis, at a country scale, either an LIDC or EDC, including: o environmental and human causes of the disease o prevalence, incidence and patterns of the disease o socio - economic impacts of the disease o direct and indirect strategies used by government and international agencies to mitigate against the disease and respond to outbreaks.

While the shortage of rural veterinarians may cause animal owners to wait longer for care, Dr. Major said he's concerned about what would happen if there was an outbreak of a serious animal - borne illness such as mad cow or foot and mouth disease.

They're a powerful source of experience, knowledge, training and insight that can guide animal shelters to improvements in every area of animal care, including those that cause the most ill - will with community members: low adoption rates, disease outbreaks and poor conditions in the shelter.

CIV is a severe and highly contagious respiratory infection that has caused many serious disease outbreaks in 38 states across the country.1 The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) granted Zoetis a license for this vaccine in June 2017.

Your misguided and ignorant beliefs are what cause outbreaks of previously controlled diseases.

In April 2004, a group of researchers at the University of Florida reported that preliminary findings suggested equine influenza virus had jumped the species barrier to dogs and caused a respiratory tract disease outbreak, killing eight Greyhounds in January 2004 at a track in Jacksonville, Fla..

In spring 2015, canine influenza made national headlines when it was identified as the cause of a respiratory disease outbreak in Chicago - area humane shelters.

This bill: AB 1780 would require the State Public Health Officer to investigate reports of out - of - state outbreaks of communicable diseases caused by contact with a dog or cat to determine the extent, source, and location of the disease and the probable impact it would have on California.

Yet another reason to be extremely wary of adopting a puppy from a pet store: over the past year, there has been an outbreak of Campylobacteriosis (an infectious disease caused by the Campylobacter bacteria) in 12 states, stemming from Petland store locations.

Learn how to define an outbreak, what common types of diseases cause outbreaks in shelters, the shelter's ideal response to an outbreak, and more!

In March 2015 a different strain of influenza of avian - origin H3N2 caused a widespread outbreak of respiratory disease in pet dogs and dogs in shelters.