Sentences with phrase «endemic diseases in»

Study the characteristics and distributions of endemic diseases in China and their prevention

Also hindering the response to the disease: symptoms of other endemic diseases in the region like malaria and typhoid may initially appear similar to Ebola.

Since then, it has been considered an endemic disease in the area, and has once again forced The Anti-Cruelty Society to close for dog adoptions for the next 3 - 4 weeks.

We really need to apologise for the acronym soup though — it is an endemic disease in satellite discussions.

«The authors analyzed malaria statistics that were collected in Finland from 1750 to 2008 via correlation analyses between malaria frequency per million people and all variables that have been used in similar studies throughout other parts of Europe,» including temperature data, animal husbandry, consolidation of land by redistribution and household size... report that «malaria was a common endemic disease in Finland in the 18th and 19th centuries and prevalent in the whole country,» and they say that «mortality during malaria epidemics usually varied between 0.85 and 3 %.»

Not exact matches

The disease exists in every industry, but Rory says it's epidemic and endemic in restaurants — owners terminally inflicted with the belief that they must be the one making the sauce, greeting the guests at the door, doing the inventory.

Disease becomes endemic and epidemic in the form of AIDS; one can join all - out efforts to rid the world of AIDS.

Individuals who carry sickle cell trait (the unexpressed mutation of sickle cell anemia) are more likely to survive malaria and therefore, the trait is actually protective against a disease that is endemic in many parts of the world.

The dangers of this must be emphasised because of the widespread use of feeding bottles in many developing countries where diarrhoeal diseases are endemic.

They cite plenty of evidence: In the Northeast, where Lyme is endemic, the disease is spread by nymphs (the tick's juvenile form) of Ixodes scapularis, commonly known as blacklegged ticks.

To track down the disease, Krause tested blood from people living in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, areas endemic for tick - borne disease.

This highlights another problem: big pharma tends to be less interested in developing vaccines for diseases endemic to developing countries.

This candidate vaccine has the potential to have a significant impact on public health in view of the high disease burden in endemic countries.»

Even among people in close contact with lepers, only a fraction seems to contract the disease, even in endemic areas.

It's quite likely that ticks infected with Lyme disease spirochetes are present in other parks in Lyme disease endemic areas, too.»

Although some regions such as Western Europe are free from rabies, the disease is still endemic in many parts of the world.

He thinks that, like HIV, the disease was at some point in the past endemic to a circumscribed population.

The disease is endemic in Dhaka, which has 7 million densely packed residents and 12 million in its metropolitan area, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.

Surveillance in these endemic regions is crucial to controlling the disease and reducing the risk of re-introduction into rabies - free areas.

The true test will come in places like Vietnam, Brazil, and Thailand, where the disease is endemic.

In nine of the 70 Nubian mummies — taken from graves stretching as far back as A.D. 550 — mitochondrial DNA of the parasite was discovered, proving the disease was endemic at least that far back.

That means the decoy males, when released in disease - endemic areas, will have to know how to behave.

Since the push to eliminate the disease began in the late 1980s, the number of countries where polio is endemic has fallen from more than 125 to just 3: Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

If a foreign disease (one that's not endemic to the U.S., such as foot - and - mouth disease) is detected, the saliva sample in question is helicoptered to Plum Island for analysis, where one person has permission to receive it.

«Given the wide variation in the transmission of the disease — endemic areas, areas of low endemicity, hyperendemic areas, and sometimes these strata all occurring in the same country — we prefer to look at each country separately without aggregates over the entire continent,» Buj says.

The effect of seasonality in pathogen transmission on vaccination strategies was investigated under several types of disease scenarios, including an endemic case and a new outbreak case.

So although it's an important weapon in endemic areas, the vaccine is risky in countries that are currently disease free.

A devastating cattle disease endemic in California's foothill country causes pregnant heifers to lose their fetuses in the third trimester, killing an estimated 5 % to 10 % of the state's annual beef calf «crop» — a loss of 45,000 to 90,000 animals.

«I myself grew up in a poor family in Northeast Thailand where the disease is endemic,» he says, «And when I started working with communities in my province, I found that the liver fluke problems still persisted with nearly three - quarters prevalence in certain villages, despite over 30 years of Thai government campaigns against the parasite.»

«The findings from this trial are very encouraging to those of us who have spent many years working on vaccine candidates to protect against dengue, a disease that is a significant burden in much of the world and is now endemic in Puerto Rico,» said Stephen Whitehead, Ph.D., of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

Because diseases can be endemic to specific regions of the world, these genes exist in thousands of versions, known as alleles.

There are experts in all countries with endemic plague who monitor the disease, with the help of the World Health Organization and sometimes the CDC.

The citrus disease huanglongbing (HLB) is endemic in Florida, where it is estimated that more than 80 % of citrus trees are currently infected.

Still, the U.S. situation has improved, mainly because of more vigilance and better infection control techniques in hospitals where drug - resistant bacteria can be endemic, says John Quale, an infectious disease specialist at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn.

Although there is an effective HBV vaccine, only around 50 percent of people in some countries where the disease is endemic are vaccinated.

Little data or public awareness Since there is a dearth of data, it is hard to distinguish to what extent neglected tropical diseases are actually endemic in the United States or are brought by travelers and immigrants.

Increased hurricanes, drought and torrential rainfall in endemic areas may push diseases into new regions as local economies and livelihoods are devastated.

The disease, which has no cure or vaccine, has been seen in travelers returning to the United States from endemic regions in 2006 and may find a new home here, since many infected don't show any signs.

Shortly after the first encephalitis cases emerged, a team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lab in Fort Collins concluded from antibody tests that the culprit was St. Louis encephalitis, a disease that is endemic in the southern United Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lab in Fort Collins concluded from antibody tests that the culprit was St. Louis encephalitis, a disease that is endemic in the southern United disease that is endemic in the southern United States.

Some breeders are now turning to native grasses in the hopes that they will have better defenses against endemic diseases and thus may re-quire smaller amounts of pesticide.

Although we have been able to push back the disease with antibiotics, leprosy remains endemic in many developing countries today.

Although endemic in Europe for centuries, the sheep disease known as scrapie achieved notoriety only during the 1980s, when it was apparently transmitted to cows in Britain via infected sheep remains in cattle feed, thereby causing mad cow disease.

The disease also affects health care workers in endemic areas, who may lack the necessary equipment to maintain barrier nursing precautions that can keep the disease from spreading.

In northeastern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming, the disease is endemic.

Nearly $ 1 billion in grants will be used to meet urgent needs in Southeast Asia, where the disease is endemic, and other regions at risk, especially Africa.

Because bartonellosis cases also spike a few months after rising temperatures are registered, there is time to spray for sand flies in endemic areas, said Nelson Solórzano, who heads the bartonellosis unit at the hospital in Caraz The best investment now, Wilson said, would be in setting up regional surveillance networks of climatologists, entomologists and experts in human, animal and even plant diseases.

Research led by WorldPop, based at the University, examined and mapped the movement of the disease from endemic countries (those where malaria is regularly found in the population) to around 40 countries defined as being malaria - free or non-endemic (such as the UK).

All the patients with transthyretin amyloidosis had early - stage familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy, 35 with the majority enrolled in Portugal and Sweden, where the disease is endemic.6 The most common mutation in participants was V30M.6 - 8 Healthy volunteers had no known TTR mutation.

Although schistosomiasis is not contracted in the United States or Europe, the World Health Organization reports that this neglected tropical disease is endemic primarily in Africa, but is also found in South America, the Middle East, and Asia.

«The cattle disease is officially eradicated in the U.S. and Western Europe, but it is endemic in other parts of the world.»