Sentences with phrase «disease endemic countries»

Many disease endemic countries (e.g. Brazil, China, and Thailand, etc.) now have sustainable tropical - disease research programmes.

Not exact matches

«There's a real desire coming out of the United States government, the UK government and others to see endemic domestic countries contribute more of their own capital towards fighting these diseases,» said Chambers.

The dangers of this must be emphasised because of the widespread use of feeding bottles in many developing countries where diarrhoeal diseases are endemic.

The event is to recognize and honour companies that have demonstrated a strong commitment to reducing the disease through innovative and sustainable programmes and have continually taken steps to demonstrate that malaria prevention is an important element of economic development, for malaria - endemic countries.

This highlights another problem: big pharma tends to be less interested in developing vaccines for diseases endemic to developing countries.

This candidate vaccine has the potential to have a significant impact on public health in view of the high disease burden in endemic countries.»

Since the push to eliminate the disease began in the late 1980s, the number of countries where polio is endemic has fallen from more than 125 to just 3: Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

«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.

A devastating cattle disease endemic in California's foothill country causes pregnant heifers to lose their fetuses in the third trimester, killing an estimated 5 % to 10 % of the state's annual beef calf «crop» — a loss of 45,000 to 90,000 animals.

There are experts in all countries with endemic plague who monitor the disease, with the help of the World Health Organization and sometimes the CDC.

Although there is an effective HBV vaccine, only around 50 percent of people in some countries where the disease is endemic are vaccinated.

Although we have been able to push back the disease with antibiotics, leprosy remains endemic in many developing countries today.

The results of the first trial of the effectiveness of a vaccine for dengue, a sometimes fatal disease endemic throughout most tropical countries, have engendered both enthusiasm and disappointment.

Research led by WorldPop, based at the University, examined and mapped the movement of the disease from endemic countries (those where malaria is regularly found in the population) to around 40 countries defined as being malaria - free or non-endemic (such as the UK).

This is difficult for any disease but is particularly challenging for diseases that are endemic in low - and middle - income countries with limited health systems and research infrastructure.

Our vision is a world where the burden caused by infectious diseases endemic in developing countries, such as malaria, dengue fever and pneumococcus, is substantially reduced through effective monitoring, control and, eventually, elimination.

In the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regulates importations of dogs and cats and these animals should not be imported from rabies - endemic countries until one month after they receive their rabies vaccination (given at 3 months of age).

At the present time, heartworm disease caused by the filarial helminth Dirofilaria immitis is not endemic in most of the European countries (Greeve et al., 1983; Schrey, 1996).

«Lyme disease is endemic in many parts of the country.

Beyond the issue of social irresponsibility that relates to importing stray animals into a country that has worked to solve its own stray animal problem for most of this century, a significant public health risk is posed by the mass importation of animals from countries where standards of veterinary medicine are not as high as they are in the US and where diseases and parasites that are not found here currently may be endemic.

The relocation of dogs, as with humanitarian efforts following natural disasters, can introduce heartworm disease to non endemic parts of the country.

Dr. Ron Schultz, our leading veterinary vaccine researcher does not recommend the use of Lyme disease vaccines on his own dogs despite living in a Lyme endemic part of the country in Wisconsin.

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.

«The authors analyzed malaria statistics that were collected in Finland from 1750 to 2008 via correlation analyses between malaria frequency per million people and all variables that have been used in similar studies throughout other parts of Europe,» including temperature data, animal husbandry, consolidation of land by redistribution and household size... report that «malaria was a common endemic disease in Finland in the 18th and 19th centuries and prevalent in the whole country,» and they say that «mortality during malaria epidemics usually varied between 0.85 and 3 %.»

A new report said that one - third of the 108 countries where malaria was endemic were on course to eradicate the disease within 10 years.

Overall economic conditions, endemic diseases, public health and sanitation standards, quality and capacity of medical facilities and different cultural attitudes toward personal health and safety are all factors that vary from one country to another.