Sentences with phrase «emerging infections»

But if we want to do anything about emerging infections, we have to do it as a public health and policy issue.

Tom Solomon, director of the United Kingdom's Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging Infections based at the University of Liverpool, says he is also considering a trial of the therapy in humans.

Jean - Paul Chretien of the Department of Defense's Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System suggests that the international community fund a system of labs modeled after U.S. military research laboratories.

More baseline data is needed for risk vs. benefit for emerging infections in different geographic locations, particularly in the context of other infections (such as malaria) that are associated with adverse birth outcomes.

The Zika diagnostics project in Brazil was brought underway by the DZIF through a fast track grant procedure in order to appropriately tackle the danger of emerging infections.

And though it's not a substitute for vaccines, hand washing is critical in preventing and controlling infectious disease, writes Joel C. Gaydos of the Defense Department's Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System in a commentary accompanying the report.

The bacterial isolates came from urine samples from two patients in Atlanta - area hospitals as part of the nationwide Multi-site Gram - Negative Surveillance Initiative, part of the CDC - funded Emerging Infections Program.

For this survey of global health, Science has joined forces with Science Translational Medicine, which examines vaccine development, strategies against emerging infections, progress in point - of - care diagnostics, and ways to promote mental health and neonatal health.

William Castell, chair of the Wellcome Trust, praised Farrar in a statement as «one of the foremost scientists of his generation, whose work — much of it funded by the Trust — has contributed to better understanding, surveillance, prevention and treatment of diseases including emerging infections, influenza, tuberculosis, typhoid and dengue.»

This work was supported by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Global Biosurveillance Technology Initiative, Global Emerging Infections System and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Peter Horby is a member of the International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC).

Only 20 % of countries are currently able to rapidly detect, respond to or prevent global health threats from emerging infections, like MERS and Ebola, according to CDC data.

Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses (RIZ), University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany.

Hoping it might shed light on the British culprit, Woodall broadcast a message last week on ProMED, an e-mail list about emerging infections he co-edits, asking veterinarians who remembered that outbreak to come forward.

A Case Study in Emerging Infections.

The laboratory testing site in Kenema is supported by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center - Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System.

What we would like to do is find the rules for these emerging infections, the rules for viral traffic.

Stephen Morse: When I suggested influenza in 1990 as a paradigm of an emerging infection, (Nobel laureate) Howard Temin, a mentor of mine, disagreed.

This work began as part of a biodefense grant from the National Institutes of Health, screening a library of 30,000 compounds for activity against the envelope of Nipah virus, an emerging infection first identified in 1999 in Malaysia.

Sagarin suggests we take cues from octopuses and other organisms in the natural world to make our responses to all kinds of threats — from sophisticated terrorist cells to emerging infections — more robust and adaptable.Sagarin is a research scientist at the University of Arizona's Institute of the Environment.

Gates, whose foundation focuses on global health, «asked me whether the AAV - mediated approach could be used in the context of a pandemic or emerging infection,» Wilson recalls.

The first known patient in the new incident was a 60 - year - old man from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, who died from pneumonia in July; his case was reported by Ali Mohamed Zaki of the Soliman Fakeeh Hospital in Jeddah on ProMED, an e-mail list about emerging infections, on 15 September.

Because avian influenza viruses have an important role in emerging infections, Thomas and colleagues tested whether exposure to different types of birds can elicit immune responses to avian influenza viruses in humans.

The agency plans to double the number of sites in the Emerging Infections Program — a research and surveillance network of labs, clinics, and state health departments — from 10 to 20.

From 2008 to 2014, she served as the co-Director of the Southeast Regional Center for Excellence in Emerging Infections and Biodefense (SERCEB).

«Bottom line, both Ebola and MERS are emerging infections that show us why it's so important for every country in the world to be prepared to find and stop health threats when and where they emerge,» Frieden says.