Sentences with phrase «emerging diseases»

The results suggest an urgent need for management recommendations to reduce the threat of emerging diseases to our wild and managed bees.

These labs would bolster surveillance and help contain emerging diseases in developing countries.

To better manage emerging diseases — and to detect them before they spread globally — the agency is now working with dozens of countries to boost diagnostic and testing capabilities.

The way we live today is so different from how humans lived just a few centuries ago, our risk of emerging diseases is probably different as well.

«The only way to prevent emerging diseases from coming to the US is to stop them in their tracks in the countries where they arise,» he says.

As emerging diseases migrate to new areas, they encounter new species, making outbreaks even more difficult to manage.

«There is no doubt in my mind that climate change will have a major impact on the spread of infectious diseases,» writes Edward Holmes, a scientist whose work focuses on emerging diseases at Sydney Medical School in Australia, in an email to Pacific Standard.

It could also work for other rapidly emerging diseases with a high death toll and limited treatment options such as SARS or viral haemorrhagic fevers that might be used as bioweapons, adds Menon.

The majority of emerging diseases come from wildlife,» said Katherine Smith, who is also a senior consultant at Wildlife Trust.

The UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine has shaped the field of veterinary medicine, from developing dynamic education programs to uncovering solutions for emerging diseases of animals and humans to sharing knowledge with communities worldwide.

Analysis of clinical samples from suspected Lassa fever cases in Sierra Leone showed that about two - thirds of the patients had been exposed to other emerging diseases, and nearly nine percent tested positive for Ebola virus.

In addition to paying close attention to recent research on this potentially emerging disease in humans in the United States, we can play an active role in controlling mosquitoes and reducing chances of people and pets being bitten by Aedes mosquitoes through eliminating breeding sites, using repellents, and reducing exposure.

We are also becoming increasingly aware of potentially new and emerging diseases such as feline heartworm disease, and feline infectious anemia (known as feline mycoplasma and / or feline Bartonella), which are often transmitted by parasites such as fleas / ticks and mosquitoes.

To be better prepared next time, the UK needs a plan that identifies top emerging disease threats and outlines courses of action, the report says.

The identification of MERTK gene as a cause of Swedish Vallhund PRA is the result of a decade - long project that first described the newly emerged disease in September 2014 in A Novel Form of Progressive Retinal Atrophy in Swedish Vallhund Dogs, PLoS ONE 9 (9): e106610.

By August of 1999 I'm doing research in emerging diseases at the University of California, Irvine, and I'm invited to a meeting in Albany, New York, where we learned about an outbreak of what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] said was St. Louis encephalitis virus [SLE].

Fascinated by emerging diseases, he covered outbreaks on four continents, including the 2001 anthrax letters, the global outbreak of SARS in 2003, and the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

«We're not winning the war against emerging disease right now, so we need to try something different.»

It's important to be aware of emerging disease risks during the fall months, which can include equine influenza virus and equine herpesvirus.

As with many emerging diseases, the misinformation about Zika started circulating almost as quickly as the disease itself.

Can big data and genomic virus sequencing help us track emerging diseases, contain their spread and ultimately find antidotes for the next unknown pathology?

«Whether we can predict emerging diseases is a whole other question,» Ford says, especially as their vectors or risk factors might take time to assess.

The surveillance app provides researchers real - time information and the ability to spot emerging diseases across borders including in nations that have limited infrastructure, or where there is a lack of transparency by governments.

The best countermeasures to bioterrorism, Franz says, are the same ones already used to combat infectious disease: «Supporting the public - health system is crucial because it would be very hard to tell emerging disease from bioterrorism.»

He hopes officials will use HealthMap to keep tabs on future emerging diseases before they rage out of control.

«Antibodies against deadly emerging disease MERS discovered.»

«Bd is the first emerging disease shown to cause the decline or extinction of scores of populations of amphibians not otherwise threatened around the world,» Goldberg said.

Mariette: You raise a fascinating area of what some people have looked at the moral responsibilities that we have as well, especially around emerging diseases or fast - moving diseases and the need to understand them scientifically, where we know for a fact, as you've said, we can mitigate some symptoms, but we're also trying to gather data so that we make sure our therapeutics are very sound.

Held at MSU Denver, the conference will welcome a variety of speakers and panelists to discuss the issue in detail, with a special emphasis on water as well as new emerging diseases.

«Our goal is to catch emerging diseases in the early stages so that we can contain them.»

Underpinning research: Novel approaches to (re --RRB- emerging disease detection and outbreak response using the COMPARE analytical framework WP leader: Ron Fouchier, EMC (2) [email protected] co-leader: Mark Woolhouse, UEDIN (11) [email protected] Objectives: 1.

Health & Science At the 69th World Health Assembly in Geneva on Monday, the head of the World Health Organization Margaret Chan said emerging diseases, climate change, new global transportation networks, and the failure of «more and more» antibiotics make the planet ripe for the next pandemic.

NC State Veterinary Medicine diagnostic laboratories serve veterinarians, scientists, educators, companion animal owners, and the livestock and poultry industry by identifying and monitoring emerging diseases, genetic disorders and developing new diagnostic methods.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OiE) recognizes that, «Most of the recent emerging diseases have an animal origin, and almost all of them have zoonotic [Ed.: the ability to pass from animals to humans] potential.»

Protect the economic viability of agricultural animal industries through participation in foreign animal and emerging disease response

Given the rapidity with which feline health crises can develop, we recognize the importance of making funds available to investigate emerging diseases / issues in a timely manner.

The world is full of terrifying emerging diseases, food shortages, climate change leading to flooding and drought, the re-appearance of once - controlled diseases due to war and poverty, the collapse of the world economy and turmoil in the US health care system... it goes on and on, although I will, mercifully, cut it short there and ask one simple question.

I believe the massive increase of vaccines in cats is responsible for hyperthyroidism as well as many other recently emerging diseases.

As we wait for answers on the source of the current H1N1 influenza outbreak, TED looks below the surface with a short interview with global health and emerging disease expert Laurie Garrett.

Still, emerging diseases usually don't become global pandemics, and climate change is only one factor in an extremely complicated, extremely mobile 21st - century disease landscape.

«Natural disasters can create a niche for emerging diseases to come out and affect more people.»

«Horses, like humans, are vulnerable to new outbreaks of prevalent illnesses such as equine influenza virus and Streptococcus equi as well as to emerging diseases such as Hendra virus,» said Dr. Paul Lunn, Ph.D., MRCVS, Dip.

Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVAX), a small - cap clinical - stage vaccine company that focuses on therapies for both known and newly emerging diseases, has lost some support from a Wall Street analyst.

These screenings are usually accompanied by an individualized risk assessment of your dog's environment — where you live, emerging disease risks in our community, your pet's interaction with other pets and wildlife, travel plans, and other lifestyle considerations.