Sentences with phrase «disease outbreaks before»

Red Flags Medical Conditions — To stop disease outbreaks before they start, shelter staff should look for symptoms of infectious disease in individual animals during daily rounds.

Wolfe has devoted his life to fighting worldwide disease pandemics with an early - warning system that predicts and controls disease outbreaks before they kill millions.

«Genomics has been used to monitor infectious disease outbreaks before, but this is the first time it's ever been possible to declare a complicated outbreak of TB over,» said Gardy.

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In New York City, the five cooling towers suspected of causing the outbreak were cleaned by July 29, before the disease had even peaked, and once that was completed, the number of new cases began to decline.

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.

«We found that in each of the regions we could analyze, Zika virus circulated undetected for many months, up to a year or longer, before the first locally transmitted cases were reported,» says Bronwyn MacInnis, an infectious disease geneticist at the Broad Institute, in Cambridge, Mass. «This means the outbreak in these regions was under way much earlier than previously thought.»

«Because the bacterium that causes TB can lie dormant in someone's lung for months or even years before it causes disease, we had no way of knowing whether a TB case we have just diagnosed was a recent infection — suggesting the outbreak is still going on — or whether the person was infected years ago.»

To understand why the long - spined urchins have not returned to the reef more than 30 years later, Scripps scientists Katie Cramer and Dick Norris analyzed the amount of fossilized urchin spines that accumulated in reef sediment layers over the past 3,000 years to paint a picture of life on the reef before it was altered from the disease outbreak and human activities such as fishing and pollution.

Networking the devices could allow health authorities to save lives by spotting disease outbreaks earlier than ever before

By doing so, HealthMap provides a glimpse of potential disease outbreaks in local pockets, often before government and other health agencies such as the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) realize they are tdisease outbreaks in local pockets, often before government and other health agencies such as the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) realize they are tDisease Control and Prevention (CDC) realize they are threats.

Internet chatter about a disease that was sickening and killing people in China made its way to the WHO before Chinese authorities eventually disclosed the existence of an outbreak that had been raging for several months.

Preventing a future crisis like Ebola requires better diagnostic tools and disease surveillance networks so that outbreaks can be identified and stopped before they get out of hand.

The agent belongs to the coronavirus group, which includes several common cold viruses but also the virus that causes SARS, a severe disease that killed more than 700 people during a fast - moving global outbreak in 2002 and 2003 before it was contained.

Throughout their analysis of plague in prairie dogs, they concluded that such diseases may «smolder» unnoticed in a population for years, rather than jump from species to species immediately before an outbreak.

The last outbreaks occurred in 2009 and 2010 in Key West — before that, the disease hadn't struck Florida in more than 70 years.

As flu season continues to wreak havoc and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issuing dire predictions about the number of flu - related deaths likely before the outbreak... more

Hepworth's use of elm relates to the size of the sculpture as, before the outbreak of Dutch Elm Disease in Britain in the 1970s, it was the largest indigenous wood available to the sculptor, growing to a diameter of up to 8 feet.

I've traveled to many supposedly «unsafe» countries either just before or just after International incidents, or during disease outbreaks or to countries that are supposedly unsafe and dangerous for travelers for whatever reason.