Sentences with phrase «deadly outbreaks of»

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.

Recent developments in surveillance technology could enable a swifter, more effective response to potentially deadly outbreaks of disease, a study has found.

Nine of the victims died, and others were critically ill, making this the deadliest outbreak of its kind in recent years.

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.

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 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).

«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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Statue of Balto The statue marks the Iditarod starting line but also pays tribute to the famed lead dog of the 1925 «serum run» to Nome that helped prevent a deadly diphtheria outbreak, upon which the race is based.

The «scary» findings show a discouraging lack of progress in cleaning the devices, despite more vigorous efforts in the wake of deadly superbug outbreaks, experts say.

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.

«Historically, nitrates have been used to help prevent the growth of certain bacteria that can cause an outbreak of botulism, a deadly food - borne illness, and to give cured meat a pink color,» the company says.

South African Minister of Health Doctor Aaron Motsoaledi has announced the cause of the country's deadly Listeria outbreak to be two unrelated batches of «polony» — a sausage made of pork and...

Unanderra wholesale bakery Betta Maid was shut down for seven hours on Wednesday and ordered to rectify hygiene and pest control issues as part of the investigation into the deadly salmonella outbreak which has struck Illawarra aged care centres.

This was around a decade after the end of Sierra Leone's civil war, and a year before the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus; needless to say, the resulting deaths seemed barely newsworthy.

From the ill - advised fight with Uber, to accusations of mishandling the critical outreach portion of an outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the Bronx, to his high profile spat with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to his misadventures at the Park Slope YMCA while a deadly standoff unfolded on Staten Island.

Former vice-president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has said that the fresh outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in DR Congo, «is a cause for concern and...

Scores more were wounded in the second outbreak of deadly violence in the border area in less than a month.

The risk to the public from the outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian bird flu in Suffolk is «negligible», environment secretary David Miliband has insisted.

Former vice-president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has said that the fresh outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in DR Congo, «is a cause for concern and immediate action».

This is the second time since Mr. de Blasio was elected mayor that he has had to manage the outbreak of a deadly disease.

Forty years ago, Peter Piot raced to the scene of an outbreak of an unknown deadly disease.

Many species of bats may spread the deadly virus, which has infected 20,171 people and killed 7,890 in the ongoing West African outbreak.

The deadly Escherichia coli outbreak in Germany last year, which sickened more than 4,000 people and killed more than 50, may be traceable to modern factory farming, which uses massive doses of antibiotics to curb animal infections, likely converting a normally benign microbe into an antibiotic - resistant killer.

In the meantime, Canada saw an outbreak of another deadly bird flu strain — H7N3 — in September.

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.

In Related News The U.S. suffered its deadliest foodborne illness outbreak since 1924: As of November, Listeria - laden cantaloupes had sickened 139 people and killed 29.

More than half of all outbreaks of Ebola Zaire, the deadliest variety of Ebola virus, have occurred here or in the neighboring DRC.

Rumor: West Nile virus was released by Plum Island before the 1999 outbreak on the East Coast the first appearance of the deadly illness in the U.S..

Scientists have completed work on a «hit list» of suspect animals which might be the natural reservoir of the deadly Ebola virus, just as a new outbreak is flaring up in Congo.

Recently an outbreak of cholera in Haiti brought public attention to this deadly disease.

With the recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa reviving interest in the first outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever 40 years ago, scientists led by Dr. Joel Breman of the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health have released a report highlighting lessons learned from the smaller, more quickly contained 1976 outbreak.

Named after the Ebola River Valley in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the first outbreak occurred, this deadly hemorrhagic fever is caused by a group of viruses (shown here) that belong to the genus Ebolavirus.

At least 66 people lost their lives, making it the deadliest human outbreak of inhalation anthrax ever.

As the Ebola outbreaks rages on in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO), desperate for a way to help infected people, is reconsidering a potential Ebola treatment tried as far back as 1976, after the first documented outbreak of the deadly viral disease: using the blood of people who have recovered from an infection to treat those still fighting the virus.

And it remains far from clear that bats are the hosts of the deadly zoonotic disease since two similar surveys of thousands of animals, including bats, at sites where human outbreaks occurred in the past failed to turn up any sign of Ebola virus.

An outbreak of anthrax which killed 68 people in the Russian town of Sverdlovsk in 1979 was almost certainly caused by a release of the deadly bacteria from a military research laboratory, pathologists revealed this week.

Cases of the deadly infectious disease went from over 250,000 during an outbreak in 1996 to just 80 confirmed cases in 2015 among countries that had not yet conducted mass immunization campaigns and among those unvaccinated, scientists at the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP) Closure Conference reported.

The plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, is one of the deadliest pathogens in human history, sparking three major pandemics: the Plague of Justinian, which struck the Roman Empire during the 6th and 8th centuries; the second plague pandemic, which first erupted in Europe in the mid-14th-century Black Death and continued to strike the continent in recurrent outbreaks until the mid-18th century; and the third plague pandemic, which emerged in China during the late 19th century.

Despite several turbulent episodes in her tenure — including criticism over FDA's minimal regulation of the compounding pharmacies responsible for a deadly 2012 outbreak of fungal meningitis — Hamburg's tenure prompted high praise from colleagues and fellow health officials.

The high mortality rate of the disease, estimated at around 60 % in the most recent outbreak, made it one of the most deadly infectious diseases in the world.

«This deadly and dreaded Ebola virus got ahead of us in a fast - moving outbreak as described by Dr. Nabarro that keeps delivering one surprise after another.