Sentences with phrase «deadly virus outbreaks»

It was blamed for deadly virus outbreaks in Africa and rising coffee prices around the world.

A deadly virus outbreak, an approaching storm, political upheaval, a police investigation, a public health emergency — travel warnings throw our impending trips into unfamiliar territory.

Not exact matches

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.

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...

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».

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.

Viruses in bats may have mixed and matched genes to create the virus that gave rise to the deadly SARS outbreak in 2003, a new study suggests.

«If Nigeria can control an outbreak caused by such a deadly and highly contagious virus from the start, any country in the world can do the same,» WHO wrote.

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

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.

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.

An antibody from a man who survived infection from the 1995 outbreak shows potent effect against deadly virus

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.

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.

«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.

In the first excerpt from his 2012 memoir No Time to Lose, Piot recalled identifying a new virus behind a deadly outbreak in Zaire in 1976 — the debut of Ebola virus.

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).

Outbreaks of two deadly viruses captured the world's attention in 2013, but neither turned into the global pandemic expected to strike one of these years.

In an outbreak that occurred a few weeks before the index case, and was later recognised as Hendra, two horses died, as did their owner — some 13 months after being infected with the deadly virus.

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.

It is designed to protect against Ebola Zaire — the strain that caused the massive West African outbreak — and Ebola Sudan, a slightly less frequently seen, but almost as deadly, strain, and the related Marburg virus.

Last June, in the early days of the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa, a team of researchers sequenced the genome of the deadly virus at unprecedented scale and speed.

«Mr. Nyenswah who heads Liberia Incidence Management Team during the Ebola outbreak confirmed that the reported case of the deadly Ebola virus was only detected from specimen taken from the corpse of a dead body.

Following a deadly 2007 outbreak of a new strain of Ebola virus in the Bundibugyo region of Uganda, MUWRP developed a strong interest in creating a vaccine that cut across subtypes of the virus.

«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.

«Senegal reopened on Monday its land border with Guinea, the Interior Ministry said, five months after closing transport links in August to prevent the spread of the worst outbreak on record of the deadly Ebola virus.

«US President Barack Obama has announced new support measures that will be put in place to help combat the deadly Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa.

It is September 1998 and the action centres on the ill - fated Raccoon City and the horrific consequences of the deadly T - virus outbreak, developed at the Umbrella facility.

Here, the iconoclastic director has fashioned another international mindbender, although the focus this go - round is on the medical community's attempt to allay the public's fears about a fictional outbreak of a deadly virus bubbling into a global pandemic.

Outbreak Warner Bros., 1995 Tag line: This animal carries a deadly virus... and the greatest medical crisis in the world is about to happen.

The murder investigation coincides with a deadly flu virus outbreak, resulting in the university being quarantined from the outside world.

The state found similar problems in the past three years — plus outbreaks of a potentially deadly virus and puppies sold too young — at the chain's other four stores.

The first signal of a possible Central Florida outbreak of the deadly parvo virus may have been around Memorial Day.