Sentences with phrase «emerging infectious disease»

Public preferences for interventions to prevent emerging infectious disease threats: a discrete choice experiment

Via:: ScienceDaily: New Report Details Historic Mass Extinction Of Amphibians; Humans Worsen Spread Of Deadly Emerging Infectious Disease (news website)

If you want to see what a lost public - health opportunity looks like and don't mind experiencing a wave of frustration, please read «Dengue, Urbanization and Globalization: The Unholy Trinity of the 21st Century,» a chilling 2011 paper by Duane J. Gubler, professor and founding director of the emerging infectious disease program at the Duke - NUS Medical School in Singapore.

The best news is that our bat colleagues did not squander years arguing about the real and obvious effects of a mysterious emerging infectious disease — as we amphibian biologists did do.

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Canine Influenza is a newly emerging infectious disease caused by a «flu» virus.

Given the urgency associated with emerging infectious disease, it is always our goal to respond as quickly as possible with effective solutions,» said Shelley Stanford, DVM, Group Director, Companion Animal Division Veterinary Professional Services, Zoetis.

Canine Influenza Virus Canine Influenza is a newly emerging infectious disease caused by a «flu» virus.

Canine influenza is a newly emerging infectious disease caused by a «flu» virus.

Breitschwerdt EB, Maggi RG, Chomel BB, Lappin MR. Bartonellosis: An emerging infectious disease of zoonotic importance to animals and to human beings.

Breitschwerdt Bartonellosis: one health perspectives for an emerging infectious disease.

Breitschwerdt EB, Maggi RG, Chomel BB, Lappin MR. Bartonellosis: an emerging infectious disease of zoonotic importance to animals and human beings.

Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans and the risk of a second amphibian pandemic Chytridiomycosis, an emerging infectious disease (EID) caused by two fungal pathogens, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis... AmphibiaWeb

In a 2016 paper in Emerging Infectious Disease, Strle and his colleagues showed that some strains of B. burgdorferi cause a much stronger immune response than others.

«The Army was able to move so quickly in developing, manufacturing and testing a Zika vaccine because of its extensive experience with this vaccine platform and long standing investments in the understanding and mitigation of flaviviruses, like yellow fever, dating back to the founding of WRAIR,» said Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad, Zika program co-lead and associate director for Emerging Infectious Disease Threats at WRAIR's MHRP.

North American bats are also plagued with white - nose syndrome, an emerging infectious disease that's decimating their numbers.

Maldonado hopes her work brings more awareness to the often overlooked disease, which she calls an emerging infectious disease in the U.S..

The vaccines are easily and rapidly manufactured so that they could potentially be widely available very quickly in the face of an emerging infectious disease.

The Zika pandemic is likely to serve as a roadmap for addressing future emerging infectious disease challenges, the authors conclude.

«We're not ready for another emerging infectious disease that may disproportionately affect pregnant women or their fetuses or babies,» she says.

The perspective concludes that modern vaccine technology and improved surveillance in developing countries ultimately can help us better prepare for emerging infectious disease threats.

Diagnostics, vaccines and new drugs could vastly improve the way future Ebola outbreaks manifest in Africa, according to emerging infectious disease expert Jeremy Farrar.

«There's an emerging infectious disease laboratory fellowship and an American Society for Microbiology laboratory fellowship, which generally last one to two years,» she adds.

This pattern of cross-infection from animals to humans is par for the course in emerging infectious disease.

Jeremy Farrar is an emerging infectious disease expert and the director of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable health foundation.

EPIDEMICS • Transportation officials and public health experts are pilot testing a Web site that calculates the risk that passengers coming off any given flight are carrying an emerging infectious disease.

Pandemic preparedness is not only critical because of the threat of a future pandemic or an outbreak of an emerging infectious disease, but also because school preparedness for all types of disasters, including biological events, is mandated by the U.S. Department of Education.

The dramatic rise in emerging infectious disease outbreaks of international concern has created an unprecedented challenge for the global community.

During a naled campaign in Puerto Rico in the 1980s, farmers complained the chemical was hurting their bee population, according to emerging infectious disease expert Duane Gubler, who oversaw the program.

Over the last 50 years CSIRO has saved and will continue to save Australian agriculture billions of dollars in impacts and reduced environmental degradation from nationally important emerging infectious diseases.

Much else could be written about health in the Asian Century, including the need to implement a sophisticated surveillance and control system for emerging infectious diseases.

The memorandum of understanding identified four areas in the life sciences where AAAS and the Cuban Academy of Sciences will seek opportunities for sustained cooperation: emerging infectious diseases, brain disorders, cancer, and antimicrobial drug resistance.

It was clear that the Cubans are well positioned to detect emerging infectious diseases of concern to the United States, such as dengue and chikungunya, serious mosquito - borne viral diseases for which no vaccines exist.

No one know how many birds succumb each year to the wildlife trade since much of the trafficking is illegal, but within Southeast Asia alone, it is likely «in the order of tens of millions,» says Kelly Edmunds, a researcher at the University of East Anglia in England who investigates the emerging infectious diseases amongst bird sellers in Asia and was not involved in the study.

As someone who's been at the forefront of unraveling emerging infectious diseases and the mechanisms of pandemics, what keeps you up at night?

Morse is credited with creating the term emerging infectious diseases in the late 1980s to explain viruses that can exist for years in an animal host without causing illness.

Other key tasks will include implementing the White House's new plan to combat the opioid crisis as well as staying ahead of emerging infectious diseases.

Further, the materials required for the test do not require refrigeration and may be applicable in testing for other emerging infectious diseases.

«Test uses nanotechnology to quickly diagnose Zika virus: May be possible to use approach with other emerging infectious diseases.»

The lab was designed and constructed with French assistance as part of a 2004 cooperative agreement on the prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases.

Blood - sucking flies can act as «flying syringes» to detect emerging infectious diseases in wild animals before they spread to humans, according to research published in the journal eLife.

The rise of modern, deadly plagues such as AIDS and SARS is particularly devastating because the «golden age of immunization during the last half century gave us a sense of triumphalism about infectious diseases,» says Stephen S. Morse, a Columbia University biologist and cofounder of ProMed, a global program for monitoring emerging infectious diseases.

«Despite the delay in airborne precaution implementation, we suspect that high hand hygiene compliance, as a result of continuous implementation of proactive control measures against various viruses and multidrug - resistant organisms, protected frontline healthcare workers against many challenges of emerging infectious diseases.»

«Being able to track the duration of fevers and the return of fevers could help us learn more about an influenza season as it is emerging and possibly provide information about other infections, including new emerging infectious diseases,» Polgreen says.

Brownstein described HealthMap as «almost like the Wikipedia of emerging infectious diseases» in a March 2010 ScientificAmerican.com article.

Following the largest Ebola epidemic in history last year, which claimed the lives of more than 11,000 people in West Africa and ultimately spread to the U.S., public health officials remain concerned about healthcare workers contracting Ebola or other emerging infectious diseases such as SARS and pandemic influenza, says Rachael Jones, UIC associate professor of environmental and occupational and health sciences, one of four co-investigators at UIC.

Following the largest Ebola epidemic in history last year, which claimed the lives of more than 11,000 people in West Africa and ultimately spread to the U.S., public health officials remain concerned about healthcare workers contracting Ebola or other emerging infectious diseases such as SARS and pandemic influenza.

The University of Illinois at Chicago has been selected as one of six research centers in the U.S. to help develop a comprehensive new strategy to control Ebola and other emerging infectious diseases in health facilities.

Moreover, the region has seen new emerging infectious diseases such as the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, in which patients develop severe acute respiratory illness.

The UIC Epicenter for Prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections will study how healthcare workers can care for patients with emerging infectious diseases without putting themselves at risk.