Sentences with phrase «deadly outbreaks of disease»
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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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.
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.
This is the second time since Mr. de Blasio was elected mayor that he has had to manage the outbreak of a deadly disease.
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.
Forty years ago, Peter Piot raced to the scene of an outbreak of an unknown deadly disease.
«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.
Recently an outbreak of cholera in Haiti brought public attention to this deadly disease.
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.
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 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.
By collaborating with NHS doctors, geneticists have shown that sequencing can have extremely important applications in healthcare today, halting an outbreak of a potentially deadly disease.»
Steven Soderbergh's action - thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
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 Julideadly outbreak of anthrax is killing the people she cares most about Deadly Strain (Biological Response Team) by JuliDeadly Strain (Biological Response Team) by Julie Rowe
The answer is not to stop administering vaccinations since that would potentially allow for outbreaks of infectious diseases in cats and can be a public health concern for deadly diseases like rabies.
Cities throughout Asia that have purged street dogs have repeatedly suffered the consequences of leaving the dogs» ecological niche open to invasion by rats, as triggered the plague outbreak of 1994 in Surat, India, or monkeys, street pigs, or other animals who carry diseases as deadly as rabies but harder to eradicate.
Wednesday, April 25th, 2018 - When a deadly avian flu outbreak threatened the nation's poultry industry in 2015, Purdue Veterinary Medicine faculty member Pat Wakenell was at the forefront of efforts to contain the spread of the disease.
DayZ is a free mod for ARMA II, placing you in the position of one of the few who have survived a deadly disease outbreak.
Floods are the second deadliest of all weather - related hazards in the United States.57, 58 Elevated waterborne disease outbreaks have been reported in the weeks following heavy rainfall, 59 although other variables may affect these associations.60 Populations living in damp indoor environments experience increased prevalence of asthma and other upper respiratory tract symptoms.61
A lack of safe drinking water and sanitation results in frequent and sometimes deadly diseases such as diarrhea and outbreaks of malaria and cholera.
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.
Recent new stories and rumors about vaccines have led to outbreaks of deadly diseases once assumed to be eliminated.