Sentences with phrase «controls disease outbreaks»

Wolfe has devoted his life to fighting worldwide disease pandemics with an early - warning system that predicts and controls disease outbreaks before they kill millions.

«Conflicts subverting improved health conditions in Eastern Mediterranean Region: New study finds «immediate need» to rebuild health systems to control disease outbreaks.»

The chief advantage of ZUVA is in its ability to aid the design of disinfection systems to ensure the most perfect solution possible for effectively controlling disease outbreaks, and the economic optimization features allow the lowest cost components to be selected for the installation that produces the highest possible kill rates.

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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.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 31 more people have fallen ill in an E. coli outbreak tied to romaine lettuce, USA Today reports.

The Center for Disease Control has reported the first death from an E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce.

The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said that the number of school - related outbreaks reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doubled over the last decade, and generally increased an average of 10 percent per year.

The outbreak has seen some countries urging couples not to get pregnant, while the US Centers for Disease Control has warned pregnant women to avoid travelling to 22 affected nations, including Brazil which has reported more than 4000 cases of the virus since October 2015.

«Investigation is still ongoing and our partners are working with us on this reported outbreak» while the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control team in Bayelsa State would give support,» the statement said.

In addition, the honourable minister of health has directed Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) to include Zika virus diagnosis as part of ongoing effort to manage Lassa Fever outbreak in the country.

An outbreak in a Miami suburb prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue an unprecedented travel warning where they urged pregnant women and their partners not to travel to the area — the first time the agency has discouraged travel to an American neighborhood.

A day after Gov. Andrew Cuomo rolled out new statewide rules for the cooling towers that spawned the deadly outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the Bronx, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed off on the city's portion of the «joint» regulations on the potentially infectious air conditioning units — declaring it a «huge undertaking» because no such controls ever existed before.

News outlets have raised repeated questions about why the outbreak wasn't identified earlier, why the city didn't have better standards for dealing with it, and why Dr. Bassett didn't enlist help from the Centers for Disease Control.

The Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, has appealed to Nigerians to remain calm as his agency was working hard to control the outbreak of monkeypox in BayelsaControl, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, has appealed to Nigerians to remain calm as his agency was working hard to control the outbreak of monkeypox in Bayelsacontrol the outbreak of monkeypox in Bayelsa State.

Getso said the State Ministry of Health had taken several control measures to check the outbreak of the disease.

Public health is a field that spans many areas, from disease prevention, outbreak control, and health promotion to epidemiology, environmental health, health care, health policy, and even bioterrorism.

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.

Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization are the organizations we think of first when it comes to containing a pandemic, the greatest asset in any surveillance network is always going to be your local health department, where the signs of an outbreak are going to be registered first.

In the modern world, humans wield considerable control over their environment — even over the diseases they face, as several recent outbreaks attest.

The agency has partnered with the Mexican Secretariat of Health to establish the Border Infectious Disease Surveillance network to identify and control outbreaks early.

With that in mind, Sarah Valway and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and at several other institutions were called to examine a suspected TB outbreak in rural Tennessee in May 1995.

A communications expert in disaster readiness at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Daigle created last year's cheeky Zombie Apocalypse campaign, designed to teach the social media generation how to survive natural disasters and uncontained infectious outbreaks.

Concurrent infections of typhoid and Shigella dysentery have complicated tracking the outbreak, according to Pierre Rollin, a virologist with the Centers for Disease Control, which responded to the outbreak, along with the local ministry of health, the WHO, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and Doctors Without Borders.

The announcement comes amid a debate over the use of experimental drugs in the outbreak: a leading epidemiologist hopes the announcement will shift international focus toward relying on basic public health measures to control the disease.

Swift action by Malaysian and international public - health authorities, including the Centers for Disease Control, kept the Nipah outbreak under control for severalControl, kept the Nipah outbreak under control for severalcontrol for several years.

«This response has been the most complex outbreak response for CDC,» said Ben Beard, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Vector - Borne Diseases, in an email.

A new expert guidance document for hospitals to use in preparing for and containing outbreaks was published by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, with the support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Europe does not have a similar real - time tracking system, although Denis Coulombier of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control says that the existing European surveillance system has worked reasonably well during this outbreak.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, introduced a rapid - surveillance platform called PulseNet following an outbreak of a different EHEC strain, called O157: H7, in 1993.

For the study, Dorevitch and colleagues estimated the number of recreational waterborne illnesses using data from two large epidemiological studies as well as reports of water - borne disease outbreaks from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, disease outbreaks from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.

«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.

Infectious disease experts say the outbreak underscores one lesson of the Ebola epidemic of 2 years ago: As cities burgeon and populations become more mobile, once - isolated diseases are increasingly likely to reach cities, where they can race out of control.

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.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans to release a detailed report that says some older people have antibodies that react to the novel H1N1 virus behind the swine flu outbreak.

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.

Outbreaks of chikungunya have occurred in numerous areas, including Africa, Asia, the Caribbean islands, and as of September 2015 more than 7,000 cases have been reported in Mexico, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In research outlined in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, scientists at the University of British Columbia and the B.C. Centre for Disease Control used genetic sequencing to trace the 2010 measles outbreak, linking it back to an influx of visitors during the Winter Olympics.

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.

To evaluate the vaccine, Bradley Perkins and other epidemiologists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta confirmed and tracked an outbreak in Gregg County, Texas, over 19 months.

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.

With cases rapidly mounting in four West African countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) today declared the Ebola outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), a designation that allows the agency to issue recommendations for travel restrictions but also sends a strong message that more resources need to be mobilized to bring the viral disease under control.

While information about a potential outbreak typically goes from a physician, to a county level health office, to a state office and ultimately the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HealthMap.org strives to discover outbreaks more quickly by drawing information from a variety of sources.

«And they hated the mass slaughter of the foot and mouth outbreak in 2001 in the UK,» he adds, referring to the policy used instead of vaccines to control the disease.

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.

His methods earned him some fame with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when he and others found the origin of the 2009 swine flu outbreak.

Helen cut her infectious diseases teeth during Toronto's SARS outbreak in 2003 and spent the summer of 2004 embedded at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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.

For the paper, «Transmission dynamics and control of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Nigeria, July - September, 2014,» published today in Eurosurveillance, researchers used epidemic modeling to project the size of the outbreak in Nigeria if control interventions had been implemented during various time periods after the initial case and estimated how many cases had thus been prevented by early initiation of interventions.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials are now investigating whether jalapeño peppers (as well as closely related serrano peppers) may be linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak first reported in April.