Sentences with phrase «deadly outbreak»
"Deadly outbreak" refers to a sudden occurrence of a dangerous and highly contagious disease or infection that spreads rapidly and leads to a large number of deaths. Full definition
Recent developments in surveillance technology could enable a swifter, more effective response to potentially deadly outbreaks of disease, a study has found.
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Having studied deadly outbreaks in many corners of the world, Peters says, «I don't know one that has left me with such a feeling of danger.»
Foodborne illness is an escalating problem, with deadly outbreaks making news on a regular basis.
Will recent deadly outbreaks change this dynamic?
This lull followed a very active and deadly strong La Nina of 2010/11, which like the strong La Nina of 1973/74 produced record setting and very deadly outbreaks of tornadoes.
It's responsible for everything from dysentery to deadly outbreaks of food poisoning.
Even more dramatically, former Peanut Corporation of America owner, Stewart Parnell, was sentenced to 28 years in prison for his role in a deadly outbreak of salmonella poisoning.
Nine of the victims died, and others were critically ill, making this the deadliest outbreak of its kind in recent years.
In the stand for example, where two cities in America are pitted against each other after a deadly outbreak kills the majority of the population.
The ongoing feud between de Blasio and Cuomo has not abated as the city deals with the deadliest outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in its history.
All three men have been critical of de Blasio's tenure, with Stringer conducting stinging audits of the city's shelter system, Kelly making an unfounded accusation that the city was cooking crime statistics and Diaz questioning the mayor's management and leadership during a deadly outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in The Bronx.
In City Hall's Blue Room, Mr. de Blasio was sitting alongside Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett, and other top officials to outline legislation to create a system that would register, inspect and clean the cooling towers atop buildings across the city — which were ground zero for a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the South Bronx that has now killed 12 people.
The city's response to the deadly outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the South Bronx became the subject of the latest clash between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Scott Stringer, as Mr. Stringer accused the city of having had a «laid - back attitude» toward the disease when the first fatalities began to appear late last month.
Why is a deadly outbreak only occurring now and only in the South Bronx?
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.
«This is the deadliest outbreak of a foodborne disease that we've identified in more than a decade,» Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC, said at a news conference today.
Pass it on: An outbreak of listeriosis linked to contaminated cantaloupes is the deadliest outbreak of foodborne illness in a decade.
The government of Yemen has suspended a request for cholera vaccine to fight the deadly outbreak that since 27 April has infected a reported 320,199 Yemenis and killed 1742.
When cholera spread through London's Soho district in 1854, Snow plotted a map of the deadly outbreak and found that everyone who fell ill had used water from a centrally placed public well that was contaminated by nearby sewers and cesspools.
Mutant strains of influenza or cholera remain prime candidates for another deadly outbreak.
Since then, the virus — now named for the river where it appeared — has re-emerged unpredictably, mostly in Central Africa but sometimes farther afield, causing small but deadly outbreaks in a village or two.
But in a 14 February panel discussion at the AAAS Annual Meeting, scientists and health care experts tempered optimism and instead focused on the lessons this deadly outbreak had taught their organizations about how to confront and counter Ebola and other, potentially even more devastating, diseases.
The same disease caused a deadly outbreak 26 years ago when more than 700 dead bottlenose dolphins were found from New Jersey to Florida between June 1987 and May 1988.
«Humans have been responding to deadly outbreaks for thousands of years,» Hewlett notes.
The Marburg virus is to blame for the deadly outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
HEALTH officials in Asia and beyond are becoming increasingly alarmed about a deadly outbreak of encephalitis in Malaysia.
We used the Virochip, a microarray designed to detect all viruses, to identify a new species of adenovirus (TMAdV, or titi monkey adenovirus) that caused a deadly outbreak in a colony of New World titi monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC), and also infected a human researcher.
Here we applied the Virochip, a pan-viral microarray, to identify a novel adenovirus (TMAdV, titi monkey adenovirus) as the cause of a deadly outbreak in a closed colony of New World monkeys (titi monkeys; Callicebus cupreus) at the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC).
Beginning in May of 2009, a deadly outbreak of fulminant pneumonia and hepatitis occurred in a closed colony of New World titi monkeys of the Callicebus genus at the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC).
«President Obama will announce that he is bringing home most of the U.S. troops deployed to West Africa to fight a deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus by April 30, the White House announced on Tuesday.
He plays Travis, who along with his parents, Paul and Sarah (Joel Edgerton and Carmen Ejogo, respectively), holes himself in a woods - nestled house after a deadly outbreak begins sweeping the nation.
Shia LeBeouf is outstanding as Gabriel Drummer, a Marine searching for his son in a near future ravaged by some manner of deadly outbreak.
Historically, it's been difficult for scientists to pinpoint where a deadly outbreak begins.
Director Steven Soderbergh's big - budget thriller about the global spread of a mysterious illness stumbles by focusing too much on public policy and science and to little on the human drama as civilians and government officials race to stop the deadly outbreak.
During a deadly outbreak on a newly colonized planet, a lieutenant risks all to save his young daughter.
Trauma surgeon Grace Samuels is deployed to Afghanistan, helping soldiers overcome disease and combat injuries... But a deadly outbreak of anthrax is killing the people she cares most about Deadly Strain (Biological Response Team) by Julie Rowe
During and after World War II the Shiba nearly became extinct because of food shortages and a deadly outbreak of distemper.
1993 — Dr. Martin Hugh - Jones, professor, was part of an American and Russian team of scientists that solved the mystery of a deadly outbreak of anthrax in 1979 in Sverdlovsk, Siberia.
Pathologist Dr. Patricia Pesavento worked with the shelter medicine team to identify the bacteria that caused a deadly outbreak of strep zoo at a Las Vegas shelter.
It is believed that a dog taken in by Stray Rescue was previously exposed to an infected raccoon, likely starting the deadly outbreak at the shelter.
Lake County Animal Services hopes to reopen its doors for stray critters Monday following a deadly outbreak of parvovirus that forced the killing of 16 dogs.
Ever thought taking on the role of a secret government agent, running around a post-apocalyptic New York as you investigate the cause of the deadly outbreak that killed thousands, in - between dealing with wandering, violent gangs?
Welcome to the unforgiving world of Dying Light, where a city devastated by a deadly outbreak has become a battleground.
The story, or rather what little there is of it, continues on from the previous entry; a deadly outbreak of creatures known as Zeds, created by a big evil Bio-Tech Firm, has now spread beyond Europe, resulting in a global collapse of communication systems and governing bodies.
Techland today released the first - ever trailer for Dying Light, their new first - person survival action game, set in a city devastated by a deadly outbreak.
Over the summer, a deadly outbreak of Legionnaire's disease at the J.W. Marriott in Chicago's South Loop infected at least 10 people.