Sentences with phrase «disease endemic area»

Long Island is a Lyme disease endemic area.

It's quite likely that ticks infected with Lyme disease spirochetes are present in other parks in Lyme disease endemic areas, too.»

Not exact matches

To track down the disease, Krause tested blood from people living in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, areas endemic for tick - borne disease.

Even among people in close contact with lepers, only a fraction seems to contract the disease, even in endemic areas.

The disease is endemic in Dhaka, which has 7 million densely packed residents and 12 million in its metropolitan area, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.

Surveillance in these endemic regions is crucial to controlling the disease and reducing the risk of re-introduction into rabies - free areas.

That means the decoy males, when released in disease - endemic areas, will have to know how to behave.

«Given the wide variation in the transmission of the disease — endemic areas, areas of low endemicity, hyperendemic areas, and sometimes these strata all occurring in the same country — we prefer to look at each country separately without aggregates over the entire continent,» Buj says.

So although it's an important weapon in endemic areas, the vaccine is risky in countries that are currently disease free.

Increased hurricanes, drought and torrential rainfall in endemic areas may push diseases into new regions as local economies and livelihoods are devastated.

Such people are vulnerable because they move into areas where a disease is endemic but they may lack immunity to it.

The disease also affects health care workers in endemic areas, who may lack the necessary equipment to maintain barrier nursing precautions that can keep the disease from spreading.

Because bartonellosis cases also spike a few months after rising temperatures are registered, there is time to spray for sand flies in endemic areas, said Nelson Solórzano, who heads the bartonellosis unit at the hospital in Caraz The best investment now, Wilson said, would be in setting up regional surveillance networks of climatologists, entomologists and experts in human, animal and even plant diseases.

This is of particular military relevance, as service members are often vaccinated against these diseases and then deployed to areas where Zika is increasingly becoming endemic.

Study of endemic non-infectious and infectious diseases in relation to the population genetics and human genome diversity in Sudan, including the role of disease in shaping the current ethno - geographical picture of the area

«[PAM] is highly lethal but very rare, even in areas where it's endemic,» says Stanley Deresinski, MD, a clinical professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at Stanford University.

Vaccination against Lyme disease is recommended for pets that live in endemic areas or that travel to areas where Lyme disease is prevalent.

While heartworm disease is not endemic to the area, our pets travel to areas where it is, and there are reports of heartworm disease in New York City.

In areas where Lyme disease is highly endemic, particularly the Northeastern, mid-Atlantic, and upper mid-western U.S., it is recommended to have your pet vaccinated against Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

As a result, veterinarians often recommend against the vaccine unless the disease is a problem in local areas or the dog will be traveling to a lepto - endemic area.

Did you know that cats can get heartworm disease if they enter highly endemic areas like the Gulf Coast?

Infectious disease expert Dr Richard Ford has also stated publicly that despite living in an endemic area, he would not vaccinate his dog.

The study, found at idexx.com/tickrisk, showed two key findings: 1) dogs with Ehrlichia antibodies in E. canis - endemic areas have a 300 percent increased risk of kidney disease; and 2) dogs with B. burgdorferi (the causative agent of Lyme disease) antibodies in Lyme - endemic areas have a 43 percent increased risk of kidney disease.

If you live in an area where the disease is endemic, talk to your veterinarian about your dog's risk level, the prevalence of the disease and whether vaccination is appropriate for your dog.

If you are in New Jersey, it is likely that your veterinarian doesn't see a lot of heartworm disease, compared to an endemic area like the Gulf coast or the Mississippi valley.

I have been practicing in a severely endemic area for heartworm disease since 1978.

Heartworm disease (HWD), caused by the mosquito - borne nematode Dirofilaria immitis, is endemic in most areas of the United States, including urban areas where most of the U.S. population (about 80 %) lives.

Importance in the dog of concentration tests for the diagnosis of heartworm disease in non endemic areas.

Technology changes, and diseases of interest change, and areas where diseases didn't used to be endemic but now are — that all changes,» she says.

Since then, it has been considered an endemic disease in the area, and has once again forced The Anti-Cruelty Society to close for dog adoptions for the next 3 - 4 weeks.

Differences in incidence of «e. canis infection varies in endemic areas according to season, vector density, awareness of disease, ability to identify disease, and stress of other related diseases.

Sarcoptic Mange is also commonly referred to as canine scabies, and it's a disease that's endemic to the Glen Cove area.

An important and probably best known example of a zoonotic viral disease from companion animals is rabies, which should be considered in the differential diagnosis of any patient presented with encephalitis in endemic areas.

We know that felines in heartworm endemic areas such as San Diego are also contracting the disease.

Daily removal of ticks may also help prevent a dog from becoming infected: it generally takes 24 hours for a tick to transmit Borrelia burgdorferi to its host.3 Vaccination is a second method to help reduce the risk of a dog developing Lyme disease.1, 2 Although you may not choose to vaccinate now, encourage new owners of adopted dogs living in endemic areas to see their veterinarian about vaccination.

Despite these controversies and despite the potential seriousness of the disease, the following points convince me that this vaccine is not a good one, even in endemic areas:

Both hikers and pet owners should be diligent in plague - endemic areas, especially after a wet spring season when the disease is likely to emerge.

Heartworm disease is diagnosed in all 50 United States, with endemic areas along the Atlantic and Gulf coast and along the Mississippi river.

According to a joint publication by the American Veterinary Medical Association and American Animal Hospital Association, which groups vaccines according to whether they are core (or highly recommended) or non-core (considered elective, unless the diseases are endemic in the area), dogs should receive four core vaccines, while cats should receive between four and five.

It just means that your immune system has been exposed (as most of us are during flu season and as most dogs are to Lyme disease in endemic areas) and is doing its» job.

Cases of reported feline and canine heartworm infection have increased after hurricanes hit the southeastern United States, sending the disease from endemic areas to all parts of the country.

Now a study in this week's edition of the journal Nature, «Climate Change and the Global Malaria Recession,» squarely concludes that the ongoing shrinkage of areas where the disease is endemic is many times more significant than any expansion of the potential malaria threat from climate change.

With regard to human health, endemic can refer to a disease or agent present or usually prevalent in a population or geographical area at all times.