Sentences with phrase «current outbreaks»

Alessandro Vespignani of Indiana University has calculated the chance the virus will emigrate, using a model that combines detailed travel data, incubation times and the rate of increase of the epidemic, with a range of hypothetical, random travel events (PLoS Current Outbreaks, doi.org/vvd).

The map shown at the White House press briefing came from another paper, published online 16 March in PLOS Current Outbreaks.

The shot to protect against yellow fever had been a recommendation for Americans visiting Brazil and other South American countries, but raising the travel advisory to a level two alert reflects the danger of the current outbreak.

With 1,118 reported cases and a death toll at 41, the current outbreak of the West Nile virus is the biggest in U.S. history and also its fastest, with last...

School officials have their hands full with the current outbreak of the flu, but measures taken to prevent the spread of the illness appear to be working the Rochester City School District and suburban schools.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has said the current outbreak of Lassa fever has affected 15 states with 105 laboratory confirmed cases, three probable...

As the current outbreak tapers off, we now look to how to prevent these outbreaks in the future, and this groundbreaking legislation provides the tools needed to safeguard our communities.

World authorities are fighting to limit the effects of the virus, but 103 people have already died in Mexico, where the current outbreak took place, with 1,600 people infected.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole in a presentation before the Senate Committee on Health in Abuja last week Thursday explained that the current outbreak began in a village in Niger State sometime in August 2015, but patients were not treated properly due to the ignorance of the villagers.

Yet it was found to be contaminated and is thought to be one of the five that may have contributed to the current outbreak.

Adewole added that Lassa fever has been a current outbreak in the country, stressing that Nigeria has battled with series of outbreaks in the past few months.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has said the current outbreak of Lassa fever has affected 15 states with 105 laboratory confirmed cases, three probable cases and 31 deaths.

As part of the study, EcoHealth Alliance's modeling team mapped the geographic distribution of all known bat hosts for these viruses, and found that Guinea and Liberia lie within the expected range of Zaire Ebola — the strain responsible for the current outbreak.

By 6 August, 932 people had died in the current outbreak, most in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

The current outbreak started in February 2014 in Guinea, West Africa (3) and spread into Liberia in March, Sierra Leone in May, and Nigeria in late July.

A rapid, specific, sensitive, and inexpensive method has been developed that detects RNA from a Zika virus strain associated with the current outbreak.

This virus is responsible for the current outbreak in West Africa.

During the current outbreak in West Africa, Ebola virus has not mutated faster than historically observed.

The authors analyzed changes in the viral sequence and conclude that the current outbreak probably resulted from the spread of the virus from central Africa in the past decade.

«So while a lot of the efforts are focused on the current outbreak, I think part of it is actually trying to lay a foundation for the infrastructure so that something like this doesn't recur in the near future.»

The current outbreak of sea star wasting syndrome was first reported in June 2013 along the coast of Washington by researchers from Olympic National Park.

While the current outbreak increases the scientists» focus on vaccines and therapeutics, they emphasize the generalizability of their work.

In the current outbreak, there has been only one instance of local Zika virus transmission in the country (a case of apparent sexual contact with an infected individual in Texas).

In Brazil, the quest to stop the current outbreak continues.

Although the risk of sexual transmission has been well publicized during the current outbreak, few scientists have reported success in isolating Zika virus from the semen of infected males, said Atkinson.

He includes sections on the history of the virus and the current outbreak, as well as the latest developments.

For the new study, researchers in Diamond's laboratory, led by first author Helen Lazear, PhD, now at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tested five strains of the Zika virus in the mice: the original strain acquired from Uganda in 1947; three strains that circulated in Senegal in the 1980s; and the French Polynesian strain, which caused infections in 2013 and is nearly identical to the strain causing the current outbreak.

The finding of virus in the brain could also be important, since the most devastating impact of the current outbreak in Brazil appears to be children of infected mothers born with microcephaly — abnormally small heads and, in some cases, incomplete brain development.

Thus, there is limited knowledge about the extent and mechanisms of transmission during the current outbreak in the Americas and even less about how the virus is circulating in Asia.

Sasisekharan points out that more surveillance is needed to determine whether these mutations are present in the strain that is causing the current outbreak, which is most prevalent in the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan and has infected more than 20,000 people so far.

The fragment has seven mutations compared with genomes from the current outbreak in Guinea, but only four mutations compared with the strain that caused the first known Ebola outbreak in 1976, also in the DRC, which was then named Zaire.

The study, published in this month's edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases, demonstrates that Ebola virus has been circulating in the region since at least 2006 — well before the current outbreak.

* The Ebola Files: Science and Science Translational Medicine have made a collection of research and news articles on the Ebola virus and the current outbreak freely available to researchers and the general public.

«Things have clearly changed,» adds virologist Robert Garry of Tulane University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, who a few weeks ago had resigned himself — grudgingly, like many scientists — to the idea that no Ebola drugs or vaccines would be available during the current outbreak.

Given Ebola's horrendous fatality rate — well over 50 % in the current outbreak — doctors would give the real treatment to anybody who meets certain eligibility criteria, he says, and see whether the case fatality rate drops.

The WHO filovirus clinical working group, convened in response to the current outbreak, discussed the evidence on convalescents» serum at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, at the end of July, says Bausch, who is part of the group.

The current outbreak started in neighboring Angola in December of last year and later spread to the DRC.

Today's pledge does not cover sharing of physical samples, which has been flagged as an issue in the current outbreak.

In fact, it came as a surprise to many in Britain that people can catch the disease — including Paul Stamper, the first confirmed patient during the current outbreak.

Researchers and health officials still do not even know whether bat - to - bat transmission, bat - to - human transmission or bat - to - other animal - to - human transmission is responsible for the beginning of the current outbreak.

Although Brazil is the only country to report a spike in microcephaly during the current outbreak, French Polynesia in 2014 saw a rise in this rare disorder concurrent with viral spread, Chan said.

The researchers then used both the March and June sequences and the October and November sequences to re-estimate an average virus mutation rate for the current outbreak.

To further characterize the sequence of the virus in the current outbreak, Feldmann and colleagues analyzed samples a couple months older and further into the outbreak than those analyzed in March and June of 2014.

Chiu pointed to a number of serious and unexpected animal - to - human disease transmissions over the last 10 years, including SARS in 2003, the H1N1 influenza in 2009, and the current outbreak of H7N9 avian influenza, which already has resulted in more than 20 deaths in China.

«The point is critically important for the current outbreak,» says Callahan, who believes proper care will drive reported case fatality rates of as high as 75 % «down into the low 40 % range.»

Menge doesn't think overabundance played a role in the current outbreak among 13 sea star populations that he follows on the coast of Oregon.

Until the current outbreak, mathematical epidemiologists had rarely modeled the spread of the virus

Scientists are hoping that the current outbreak will turn out to be unusual in that respect as well.

There are, however, ways to protect both livestock and humans from an anthrax infection, and the current outbreak is likely to end quickly, said George Stewart, a medical bacteriologist at the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine.

The change in the clinical symptoms has delayed diagnosis and enabled the disease to spread more widely in the current outbreak.