Sentences with phrase «devastating outbreak of»

But the sudden and devastating outbreak of parvo was because the feline panleukopenia virus (FPV) that had long been present in dog vaccines mutated to a form that could jump species and infect dogs!

Chan is used to crises; as Hong Kong, China's Director of Health, she fought devastating outbreaks of bird flu and SARS before taking WHO's top job in 2006.

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Over the past decade, B.C. has experienced a devastating mountain pine beetle outbreak, which has destroyed 16.3 million hectares of forest.

This was the most severe influenza outbreak of the twentieth century and, in terms of total numbers of deaths, possibly the most devastating epidemic in human history.

«This was devastating to our school and I am surprised and somewhat angered to learn that it, maybe, could have been prevented,» said Supt. James Rabbitt of the Laraway School District, where the outbreak occurred.

Cuomo says these outbreaks and closures devastate tourism, a large part of New York's economy.

The mountain pine beetle overall devastates ecosystems, affecting about 3.4 million acres of forest in Colorado since the outbreak started in 1996

The authors note, «The devastating loss of human life from the Ebola outbreak of 2014 must not be in vain.

From fish in a British lake to lions and corals, many plants and animals have suffered devastating disease outbreaks because of human activity, says Michael Le Page

A lack of natural immunity leads to devastating outbreaks for many South American species, especially howler monkeys.

As a result, people in rural areas sometimes shoot monkeys or leave poisoned fruit around, adding dozens of casualties to an already devastating outbreak.

Aside from inflicting devastating natural disasters on often vulnerable communities, climate change can also spur outbreaks of infectious diseases like Zika, malaria and dengue fever, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

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.

A 1995 outbreak of two migratory moth species — beet armyworm (Spodoptera exigua) and cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni)-- devastated cotton crops in Texas» Lower Rio Grande Valley.

Some of the biggest outbreaks in history — including the 1974 Super Outbreak, as well as the devastating 2011 season — occurred during La Niña years.

In the mid-19th century, grafts of American grape species salvaged Europe's vineyards during the Great Wine Blight, a devastating phylloxera outbreak centered in France that affected much of the continent.

«If an outbreak occurred tomorrow, it would be devastating,» warns Neil Ferguson from Imperial College London, UK, who led one of the studies.

An earlier study, conducted in Guinea near the end of the devastating West African Ebola outbreak, showed the vaccine from Merck, which is given in a single shot, rapidly generated protection against the virus.

Finally, we would like to recognize all of the CNPRC husbandry, management, pathology, research, and veterinary staff who worked diligently to provide excellent care for the titi monkey colony devastated by the outbreak.

The Zika outbreak sweeping across the Americas has coincided with a surge of devastating birth defects, but links between these defects and infection by the virus have not been firmly established.

An official in the West Africa country that has been devastated by the worst ever outbreak of the virus urged calm, insisting that health workers had the means to contain the latest outbreak.

Publications are considered the currency of science, but the admonition to «publish or perish» took on a new meaning in the midst of such a devastating outbreak.

Furthermore, research shows that excessive nutrients arriving on the Great Barrier Reef trigger harmful crown - of - thorns outbreaks, which can devastate vast areas of the reef.

The Ebola outbreak in Liberia spread first into Lofa, once one of the most devastated places in the 14 - year civil war.

Hahn was devastated by the outbreak of World War II.

In May of 2013, two Central Oklahoma towns were devastated when an outbreak of tornadoes struck the state.

It is difficult to quantify the risk of anaplasmosis in any given herd in any given time of year, but when an outbreak occurs, it can result in devastating consequences for a cow / calf herd.

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A key player in this role of diagnosing exotic and economically devastating diseases is the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) under Veterinary Services, and the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN), which respond to animal disease outbreaks such as HPAI, which are amongst the programs that the AVMA is advocating for sufficient funding.

A devastating viral outbreak has claimed the lives of Sgt James Heller's family and transformed him into a Prototype.

Welcome to the unforgiving world of Dying Light, where a city devastated by a deadly outbreak has become a battleground.

Yet the authors marshal clear examples of ecological disasters that have already had serious effects on human society: the collapse of cod fisheries in the North Atlantic, for instance, and the outbreaks of mountain pine beetles that are devastating forests in the West.

If that sounds like something out of a big - budget science fiction blockbuster about a devastating CDC outbreak, that should tell you how serious the situation is.

While Arkansas is not normally included within the limits of the infamous Tornado Alley, the state has suffered many devastating tornado outbreaks.

2010 also brought history's most trying tests of nature and mankind with BP's catastrophic Gulf oil spill, the Chilean mine collapse, and devastating earthquakes, outbreak of cholera, and alleged corruption in Haiti to name a few.