Sentences with phrase «eradication efforts»

We asked the Carter Center's Guinea worm disease expert Kelly Callahan, who has been involved in eradication efforts for 12 years.

A more hopeful finding comes from eradication efforts by Hansen's team in Oregon.

«Stepan's history of eradication efforts gives you a good sense of how involved the work can get, how many different kinds of approaches have been tried without success, and how much we've learned from our failures,» he writes, though he also warns that, while extremely valuable, it is far from a page turner.

The discovery raises concerns that mutations to resist existing medications could spread worldwide, making global eradication efforts even more difficult.

As part of the full flea eradication effort, you should also wash all pet bedding and spray any outdoor patio or garden areas that your pets frequent.

And there are numerous examples from eradication efforts on uninhabited islands suggesting that feral cats can reproduce successfully without any handouts at all.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization announced on 14 October in Rome that a 16 - year eradication effort has succeeded and fieldwork has ended.

USDA's Wildlife Services kill an additional 175,000 (mostly non-native birds), and is responsible for much of the state's feral cat eradication effort — the largest in the country.

A massive rat eradication effort took place in the 1990s and was successful — getting rid of the egg - eating pests brought back burrowing seabird numbers.

But while rat eradication efforts have worked on some islands around the world, many such attempts have failed.

Evidence for the presence of the Asian tiger mosquito prior to eradication efforts included surveys of insects with black - light traps and anecdotal observations from bitten researchers.

An icy blast of winter at Lake George expected to last at least through Christmas may be the start of the lake's best defense against an invasive clam that has defied man - made eradication efforts.

Some weightier recommendations are sure to make you smarter and better informed, but will that tome on disease eradication efforts or memoir of a dying doctor bring a smile to your lips?

CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on how the polio eradication effort was an important tool in fighting the outbreak

Cultivation of coca, cocaine's base ingredient, is also booming in Colombia for a variety of reasons, including decreased eradication efforts and increased economic incentives.

Meanwhile, liars will not report full meltdowns, green plants will continue to be considered an enemy worthy of military and monetary eradication efforts world wide and CNN will decide there is more money in tabloid journalism than real unbiased news reporting.

Yet another green benefit of legalizing marijuana would be an end to the destructive eradication efforts employed by law enforcement at bust sites, where the crop and the land they are rooted in are sometimes subjected to harsh chemical herbicides for expedited removal.

It still kills some 600,000 people each year and has outwitted eradication efforts, having developed resistance to previously popular drugs and, thus far, eluded vaccine - induced immunity.

As global eradication efforts ramp up in Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, funding shortfalls threaten gains in Africa and Asia

The research has important implications for rhododendron eradication efforts.

Moving targets Though the disease ebbs and flows year to year, the West Nile virus is here to stay, barring some drastic eradication effort.

Although scientists have not come up with a specific cost for Brazilian peppertree eradication efforts, the South Florida Water Management District estimates it spends $ 1.7 million per year to control the invasive tree.

The prevalence of the animals in daily life in many countries makes them an important factor in how to approach eradication efforts, she said.

He often warns about the threat of epidemics and exotic mosquitoes; when the Asian bush mosquito (Aedes japonicus) showed up in the Netherlands, for instance, Knols said it might be able to transmit Zika, and, if so, a major door - to - door eradication effort would be called for.

The disease, treatable with a one - time dose of penicillin or, as part of the renewed eradication effort, the antibiotic azithromycin, has experienced a significant resurgence in the past two decades.

The results suggest that managers may need to simultaneously eliminate more than one predator to save rare animals from extinction, he adds; eradication efforts frequently focus on only one species.

A study at the University of North Carolina found that gene deletion poses a threat to Malaria eradication efforts.

Such a system would support the World Health Organization's DOTS program, which was established to guide TB eradication efforts by emphasizing, among other factors, the role of quality - assured technology, standardized treatment, and enhanced recording and reporting [4].

If ART - R is not effectively contained, its spread from South - East Asia could undermine antimalarial treatment globally, jeopardizing eradication efforts and causing a massive death toll.

«Successful» eradication efforts require both extraordinary resources and profound cruelty.

[2] As a result of «a multi-year eradication effort that began in 2001,» [2] birds have begun to return.

Instead, he focused on the positive impact of Arkaba's other eradication efforts.

«But Anacapa is a small island, so if they do a concerted eradication effort it could well work there.»

Recognizing the linkage between the potential impacts of climate change and development, mitigation and adaptation strategies should be pursued as part of development and poverty eradication efforts.

After some escaped and defied an aggressive eradication effort, he moved to France, where his main legacy was illustrations of astronomical phenomena like eclipses.

This massive annual eradication effort stands in sharp contrast to farmers across the globe continuing to legally produce industrial hemp for export to the United States.

U.N. releases a new report showing a five percent increase in global hunger from 2015 to 2016 despite eradication efforts.

As part of the total flea eradication effort, you should also wash all pet bedding and spray any outdoor patio or garden areas that your pets frequent.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced on 14 October in Rome that a 16 - year eradication effort has succeeded and fieldwork has ended.

Eradication efforts take time.

Where there is adequate food and shelter — and island eradication efforts have demonstrated rather dramatically just how little human assistance the domestic cat requires in this regard — there will very likely be cats.