Sentences with phrase «endemic populations»

She has over 25 years of experience in global health across research, public health, and philanthropic sectors, with focus on strategy, global health product development, and the introduction and scale - up of tools and strategies resulting in impact on endemic populations.

Underwater Marine Photographer David Fleetham reports on the huge endemic population of fish in Maui.

Underwater Marine Photographer David Fleetham shares his views on the huge endemic population of fish in Maui.

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Sub-Saharan Africa, a region of endemic poverty, has 11 % of the world's population, 24 % of the world's burden of disease, and less than 5 % of its health workforce, said Gottlieb.

The PPP 2016 flagbearer noted that, about 53 % of the Ghanaian population is into agriculture, yet that is where poverty is endemic.

«In the 1950's, the Brazilian health agencies added chloroquine into cooking salt and distributed it to the population in endemic areas as an effective way of spreading the inexpensive anti-malarial drug as a prophylactic on a wide scale.

«Their data show alarming declines in population and geographic ranges of endemic Hawaiian honeycreepers on the island of Kauai,» she says.

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

For example, the once - abundant Echinopsis pampana, endemic to the puna desert of Peru, has been collected illegally for the ornamental plant trade at such high rates that at least 50 % of the population has disappeared in the last 15 years.

It produces a watery diarrhea, which can cause life - threatening dehydration in infants or other vulnerable populations in endemic countries.

«We must face the possibility that Ebola will become endemic among the human population of West Africa, a prospect that has never previously been contemplated,» says author Christl Donnelly of Imperial College London (New England Journal of Medicine, doi.org/vvw).

Six months after the World Health Organization (WHO) was notified of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, its experts have released a new study warning that the situation is quickly growing worse and that Ebola may even «become endemic among the human population of West Africa, a prospect that has never previously been contemplated.»

The human influenza virus H1N1 that caused the 2009 flu pandemic, and H9N2, an avian influenza virus that is endemic in bird populations in Asia, are close cousins — close enough that they can swap genes if they find themselves in the same cell, resulting in new viruses that are a patchwork of the parent strains.

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).

Authors of the study titled «Genetic evidence of fragmented populations and inbreeding in the Colombian endemic Dahl's toad - headed turtle» are: Natalia Gallego - García and Susana Caballero of the Universidad de los Andes; Mario Vargas - Ramírez of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia; and Germán Forero - Medina of WCS and TSA.

In many areas of the world, dengue has now become endemic, meaning that the virus exists at low levels year - round, and infections occur annually during the rainy season when mosquito populations increase rapidly.

Mark Davis from Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, points out that 86 per cent of the extinctions ascribed to invasive species occurred on islands, where endemic species have small populations and are poorly adapted for predators or environmental changes.

Descendants of the genetically diverse hybrid population colonized the lake and, within the evolutionarily short period of several thousand years, diverged to form around 500 new (endemic) cichlid species, with a wide variety of ecological specializations.

According to expert at one point in time, our endemic birds had lost much of their population then rose back in numbers, meaning that in the actual the gene pool is less diverse that it used to be, creating a genetic bottle neck.

The primary output of the project will be an open access data resource with companion publications on genomic diversity and population genetics that together provide a detailed description of P. falciparum genome variation across the major malaria endemic regions.

A once obscure infection, dengue now threatens 40 percent of the world's population and has become endemic in Mexico.

These species are prevalent across most regions in which malaria is endemic and are often undetectable by light microscopy, rendering their study in human populations difficult.

Study of endemic non-infectious and infectious diseases in relation to the population genetics and human genome diversity in Sudan, including the role of disease in shaping the current ethno - geographical picture of the area

Atherosclerosis is endemic in our population in part because the average person's LDL level is up around 130, approximately twice the normal physiologic level.

It was not an epidemic but an endemic disease; it didn't come in waves or explode through a population, its presence was constant, pervasive, and persistent.

It is closely related to feline panleukopenia virus and mink enteritis virus, and is considered endemic to nearly all populations of domesticated and wild dogs.

Heartworm disease (HWD), caused by the mosquito - borne nematode Dirofilaria immitis, is endemic in most areas of the United States, including urban areas where most of the U.S. population (about 80 %) lives.

We know that if we look at statistics, less than two - thirds of pets leave veterinary hospitals in areas where heartworm is endemic, common, without sufficient heartworm protection to protect either the entire pet population in the house or pets for the entire transmission season.

The use of this vaccine could be considered for cats entering a population of cats where infection is known to be endemic.

History of recent introduction of a high risk dog into the shelter population, such as a dog from a canine influenza endemic area or a racing track

All of these characteristics are endemic to deeply inbred populations, and are showing up with increased frequency in the Kennel Club.

Vaccination is preferable, and probably essential in areas where rabies is endemic in the wild animal population.

There are more than 60 known species of wild orchids, as well as endemic and migrating bird and butterfly populations.

On March 5, 2004, four of the six subspecies of island fox endemic to the California Channel Islands were listed as endangered following catastrophic population declines of over 90 percent, due primarily to predation by golden eagles on the northern Channel Islands and a canine distemper outbreak on Santa Catalina Island.

Each island population is recognized as a separate endemic or unique subspecies.

Small populations of island endemic taxa are often at risk of extirpation or extinction due to their reduced genetic diversity and increased susceptibility to genetic drift, disease, and climate change, especially in conjunction with over-exploitation, habitat loss, and predation or competition from invasive species [4 — 7].

Six endemic species Saint Lucia has six endemic species, one of which is the islands national bird, the Saint Lucia Parrot (Amazona Veriscolor), a species that recovered from dangerously low population numbers in the early 1980s.

In the late 1990s, endemic island fox populations on San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz and Santa Catalina islands — four of the six Channel Islands they inhabit — plummeted by over 90 percent to catastrophic levels.

endemic infection a sustained, relatively stable, pattern of infection within a specified population

With regard to human health, endemic can refer to a disease or agent present or usually prevalent in a population or geographical area at all times.

The stronger presence of this species, bound to become a new apex predator of arctic seas, will likely affect populations of endemic arctic marine mammals such as the narwhal, bowhead, and beluga whales.

Habitat loss alone may be a good predictor of extinctions of threatened and endemic species in biodiversity hotspots, but this takes no account of pervasive synergistic effects of hunting, wildfires and other anthropogenic impacts on isolated populations which may lead to much higher extinction rates compared to predictions from unqualified SAR models alone.

«People are not actively managing these populations, but because species in this environment are adapted to human disturbance, endemic species do better as a result of human interaction.

«isolated from population centers, mostly uninhabited» and supporting «endemic, depleted, migratory, endangered and threatened species of fish, giant clams, crabs, marine mammals, sea turtles, seabirds, migratory shorebirds and corals that are rapidly vanishing elsewhere in the world.»