Sentences with phrase «during the epidemic of»

During an epidemic of the plague, in complete disregard of his own safety, he gave directions for the care of the sick and the burial of the dead, sold his plate to aid the sufferers, and had his tapestries made into clothing for the destitute.

He even compared it to the AIDS activism in the gay community during the epidemic of the 1980s.

The researchers compared a strain of Zika isolated from a patient in Cambodia in 2010 with three Zika strains collected from patients who contracted the virus in Venezuela, Samoa and Martinique during the epidemic of 2015 — 2016.

Not exact matches

During President Donald Trump's «major briefing» on the opioid epidemic Tuesday, he said it was «a problem the likes of which we have never seen.»

Sales of the startup's eggless mayo boomed during 2015's avian bird flu epidemic — an incident that revealed much about the fragile nature of Earth's reliance on animals for food.

When our son came of age during the height of Florida's pill mill epidemic, Oxycontin and similar pain pills flooded the halls of our middle schools and high schools, offering cheap, quick escapes for teens struggling to find themselves.

43 The Prayer Book uses it only of bishops; in monastic usage the tide «Father» for abbots, or for older, professed, or ordained members of the monastic family generally is ancient; in modern times it gradually spread, through the active missionary orders doubtless, to the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland; the heroic ministry of Charles Lowder and other priests during the cholera epidemic of 1866 in London seems to have started the common use of «Father» for nonmonastic Anglicans.

The origin of Aromatique dates back to 1828 when it was conceived as a remedy during an epidemic in Germany's Thuringia region.

Perhaps the loss of the Stanley Cup playoffs for the second time in history — the 1919 final between Montreal and Seattle was canceled because of a flu epidemic — will cause a modicum of outrage, but certainly there has been little of the visceral fan anger that flared during the 1994 baseball strike.

The Pelicans, who in their first year of play in 1870, as amateurs, lost to the Cincinnati Red Stockings 51 - 1, in 1887 issued first rain check in professional baseball (existing custom had been to take a fan's word for it that he had suffered from a rain - out), stoutly continued to play during raging yellow fever epidemic of 1905, stumbled on even when their home park was sold out from under them for a motel site in 1958.

New federal statistics show an epidemic of twins among IVF patients, and two babies come with added risk during pregnancy.

So, during the celiac epidemic, you had a lot of babies suddenly getting a lot of gluten around 6 months of age — much of it coming not from solid foods but from formula.

The median age of diagnosis during the epidemic was just about a year old.

During; the current cholera epidemic in Latin America, remarkably, less than 1 per cent of those affected have died, thanks to a decade or more of control of diarrhoeal disease (CDD) training and preparation.

During the 1990s» crack cocaine and AIDS epidemic, there was a sharp increase of lower - income grandparents who became the primary caregivers of their grandchildren.

Students as communicators During a recent epidemic of diarrhoea in our state the Indian Medical Association obtained a donation of two tons of glucose, plastic packing material and printed instructions.

Her remit may be broad, but it also covers some of the most important tasks facing this government, including dealing with the knife crime epidemic, tackling modern slavery — a cause championed by Theresa May during her own time at the Home Office and in Downing Street — and leading on the forthcoming Domestic Abuse Bill.

Governor David Paterson, Assembly Speaker Leader Sheldon Silver, and Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith (all Democrats) reached an agreement behind closed doors to repeal much of what is left of the draconian drug laws that govern the state — ones that were passed in the seventies during a heroin epidemic in urban areas and are commonly called the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo told residents of opioid addiction - ravaged Staten Island that he considered the present - day heroin epidemic worse than the crack epidemic that tore through predominantly nonwhite New York neighborhoods during the 1980s.

It was just last week that the American Medical Association suggested that the restriction, instituted during the early days of the AIDS epidemic in 1983, was out of date and discriminatory.

Olatoye was grilled on a host of issues during the meeting, including the recent apartment ceiling collapse in Brooklyn's Weeksville Gardens complex — which displaced a family of six — and an epidemic of faulty heating equipment that has left some residents in the cold.

Cuomo told residents of opioid addiction - ravaged Staten Island that he considered the present - day heroin epidemic worse than the crack epidemic that tore through predominantly nonwhite New York neighborhoods during the 1980s.

Escalating his criticism of Clinton's debate performances, Trump came to a state battling a drug epidemic (New Hampshire) and suggested without any evidence that his opponent had been on drugs during their second debate.

----------------------------- Governor Cuomo & the State Legislature will begin the 2018 session tackling social issues & terrorism threats, tainted drinking water & the heroin epidemic, Cuomo commented about those issues during the State of the State address:

During the early weeks and months of 2016, the epidemic was claiming so many lives that county officials projected more than 500 people would die that year.

The Oneida County Health Department overcame numerous obstacles including an evolving epidemic and the pressure to deliver medications that were sometimes in short supply in its efforts to protect the public health during the H1N1 influenza pandemic, according to a letter from Dr. Richard F. Daines, Commissioner of Health for the State of New... Read more

This past winter, they reached epidemic proportions when the majority of the city's 400,000 NYCHA residents found themselves without heat or hot water during the coldest days of the season.

State Cites Oneida County Health for H1N1 Response The Oneida County Health Department overcame numerous obstacles including an evolving epidemic and the pressure to deliver medications that were sometimes in short supply in its efforts to protect the public health during the H1N1 influenza pandemic, according to a letter from Dr. Richard F. Daines, Commissioner of Health for the State of New York.

And when during the SARS epidemic, the minister of health went on television and lied to the country and to the world about the situation.

Ingmar Bergman's famous 1957 movie The Seventh Seal takes place during the 14th century, when Europe is in the midst of a major epidemic of the bubonic plague — the Black Death — which ultimately killed about half the population.

The WHO's declaration of a global public health emergency is the third ever made under international regulations enacted in 2007; the first came in 2009 during the H1N1 influenza epidemic and the second in May, warning of the potential for international spread of the polio virus.

[During] the avian flu epidemic in Southeast Asia -LSB-, for example,] important papers on the threatening nature of the disease «went unnoticed because they were published in Chinese - language journals,»» Montgomery notes in the book, quoting an article by David Cyranoski in Nature.

His reports have originated from Timbuktu, the South Pole, the Galapagos Islands, Beijing during the SARS epidemic, the center of Greenland, the Amazon rain forest, the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro (for a story on tuberculosis) and Japan to cover the nuclear aftermath of the 2011 tsunami.

In this slide show, reporter Merrill Goozner documents what he saw during his investigation of the TB epidemic in Russia.

We identified a determinant of fitness in a foreign dominant (PR - 2B) DENV serotype 2 (DENV - 2) clade, which emerged during the 1994 epidemic in Puerto Rico and replaced an endemic (PR - 1) DENV - 2 clade.

The model successfully mimicked the changing patterns of TB in the UK, including the changes seen after TB controls were reduced during the foot - and - mouth epidemic of 2002.

One of the most critical aspects of the AIDS epidemic is also one of the least researched and most poorly understood — the mechanisms by which HIV spreads during sex.

In the Middle Ages it sometimes killed thousands of people during epidemics when ergot - infected rye bread was more common.

This, say the researchers, shows that media coverage is a powerful tool to help halt the spread of disease during an epidemic.

Another consideration is that this study was conducted during the height of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and «Fearbola» epidemic in the United States.

This can inform and accelerate the development of new vaccines, especially important during outbreaks and epidemics when clinical testing of vaccine candidates need to be fast tracked.

Some focused on the power of social media to reach broad swaths of people during an epidemic, relating its perks — messages can be disseminated quickly and concisely and are easily and widely shared — and its pitfalls — social media can foster rumors, and its reach doesn't include everyone.

At their January orientation, the 14 fellows of the Class of 2015, inspired by misinformation surrounding the Ebola virus, opted to focus on how cities can prepare to communicate during a widespread disease epidemic.

But this month, researchers reported that the instruments passed an important field test, conducting on - the - spot sequencing of viruses isolated from patients during last year's Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

«Prolonged drought over Mesoamerica during the early Colonial era may have interacted with epidemic disease to contribute to the catastrophic depopulation of Aztec Mexico in the aftermath of the [Spanish] conquest,» states the study.

«But, premenopausal women on certain kinds of birth control or post-menopausal women on hormone replacement may be better protected during seasonal influenza epidemics,» she says.

Asleep By Molly Caldwell Crosby (Penguin Group) Crosby's harrowing account traces seven case histories during the early - 1900s epidemic of encephalitis lethargica, a sleeping sickness.

«During the past three years of armed conflict, Yemenis have been continuously exposed to serious harm and trauma, including air strikes, threats and attacks from armed groups, forced disappearances, torture, a cholera epidemic, and food and job insecurity,» said Farea Al - Muslimi, a prominent Yemeni scholar and chairman of the Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies.

The research and public - health networks established during the SARS epidemic — and the body of coronavirus research that followed — puts scientists today in a much stronger position to understand the latest virus and to develop countermeasures such as drugs and vaccines, should they be required.

To test the reliability of alternative data streams, researchers tracked and analyzed reports from public health authorities and reputable media outlets posted via social media or their websites during the 2014 - 2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa and the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outbreak in South Korea.