Sentences with phrase «fever outbreaks»

The study, published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, provides evidence that China may be at increased risk for more frequent and severe dengue fever outbreaks similar to the 2014 outbreak in Guangdong Province that sickened more than 40,000 people.

They mapped the genomes of 36 strains collected from patients who died in rheumatic fever outbreaks across the U.S. in the last 73 years.

«In parts of Africa where there are Rift valley fever outbreaks, miscarriages in humans have until now never been linked to this particular viral infection,» says Magnus Evander, professor of Virology at Umeå University and co-author of the study.

To see if the concept held — and whether Sydenham chorea even caused OCD — Swedo and her partner at NIMH, psychiatrist Henrietta Leonard, conducted a retrospective study in 1989 of three sites in the United States that had rheumatic fever outbreaks: Salt Lake City, the Ohio River Valley and Walden, Penn..

Researchers have previously used environmental measures to map areas most at risk of yellow fever outbreaks.

This would allow the facilitation of early interventions in emerging yellow fever outbreaks — which is key to prevent large scale outbreaks.»

These shortages have coincided with some of the largest yellow fever outbreaks in half a century.

A yellow fever outbreak in Brazil led to leaders calling for a country - wide vaccination campaign this week.

Dr. Luke Blackburn was a respected medical doctor and philanthropist until he allegedly attempted to create a yellow fever outbreak targeting Northern civilians and soldiers during the Civil War.

Several Brazilian clubs are on alert for a dengue fever outbreak that has affected several players, including several from some of the top teams in the country.

Eniola said, «Media reports attributing the decision to relocate the camp to Lassa fever outbreak was wrong.»

DUTSE — Jigawa State Government has confirmed the death of one person as a result of Lassa fever outbreak and 26 others persons who had contact with the decease were at present under surveillance.

In addition, the honourable minister of health has directed Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) to include Zika virus diagnosis as part of ongoing effort to manage Lassa Fever outbreak in the country.

The Lassa fever outbreak is gradually holding sway across the nation just as efforts are being put in place by the federal government to limit its spread, hence, to curtail it.

The Ebonyi Government, on Saturday, blamed the Federal Government for its poor response to the Lassa fever outbreak, which was reported in the state...

The Ebonyi Government, on Saturday, blamed the Federal Government for its poor response to the Lassa fever outbreak, which was reported in the state since Jan. 14.

Public and private schools in Ebonyi shut on Jan. 18 to check the spread of Lassa fever outbreak in the state have reopened.

Travel Alert: Brazil - Ongoing Yellow Fever Outbreak The CDC has issued a Level 2 Travel Alert because of an ongoing yellow fever outbreak in Brazil.

Brazil has been battling an unusually high number of yellow fever cases since December 2016, with at least 326 confirmed cases, including 220 deaths, and hundreds of additional cases under investigation — making it Brazil's worst yellow fever outbreak among humans in decades according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The last reported yellow fever outbreak in North America was in New Orleans in 1905.

The yellow fever outbreak in Uganda is unrelated to the outbreak in Angola.

During the yellow fever outbreak this year, public health clinics in Belém, Brazil, vaccinated hundreds of people daily.

Under the intensity of these mystical moonbeams, a spring fever outbreak could get pandemic as pairings everywhere become more permanent.

A spring fever outbreak could become pandemic and pairings more permanent.

Not exact matches

The cross-border fatality conjures up bad memories of another hemorrhagic fever, Ebola, which freely crossed borders in the horrific 2014 West African outbreak.

What do an Olympic outbreak of norovirus in Pyeongchang, a death from Lassa fever in Guinea, and a severe eruption of flu in the United States have in common?

The shot to protect against yellow fever had been a recommendation for Americans visiting Brazil and other South American countries, but raising the travel advisory to a level two alert reflects the danger of the current outbreak.

Early in his career, he implemented a quarantine to shut down a cholera epidemic and he later led another that successfully stopped an outbreak of yellow fever in the Mississippi River Valley.

The state coordinator debunked reports that attributed the decision to relocate the camp due to outbreak of Lassa fever.

«We have recorded seven new cases of Lassa fever across the country and the cholera outbreak in Kwara state has also fizzled out.

The Nigerian Senate during its plenary session on Thursday discussed the continuous outbreak of Lassa fever in Nigeria.

Osun Government on Saturday dispelled speculations of outbreak of lassa fever in the state.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has said the current outbreak of Lassa fever has affected 15 states with 105 laboratory confirmed cases, three probable...

The Abia State government says it is aware of the reported outbreak of Lassa Fever at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Umuahia.

By Festus Ahon ASABA — DELTA State Government, yesterday, allayed fears over the outbreak of Lassa fever in the state, assuring that as at...

KINSHASA (Reuters)- A person in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who died of a hemorrhagic fever has tested positive for the Ebola virus, signaling the start of a new outbreak, the DRC Health Ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

But the Director of the Ghana Public Health Service, Dr. Badu Sarkodie, later assured Ghanaians his outfit was prepared to contain lassa fever should there be an outbreak in the country.

Adewole added that Lassa fever has been a current outbreak in the country, stressing that Nigeria has battled with series of outbreaks in the past few months.

Bauchi State Commissioner for Health, Zuwaira Hassan, on Friday, confirmed that 14 people died in the state following outbreak of cholera and Lassa fever.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has said the current outbreak of Lassa fever has affected 15 states with 105 laboratory confirmed cases, three probable cases and 31 deaths.

Adamawa Ministry of Health, on Monday said one person has died from the outbreak of Lassa fever in the state.

The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki noted that with Lassa Fever, Cholera and Meningitis outbreak in parts of the country, there was a need for increased coordination and funding for regular and specialized healthcare in the 2017 budget.

The fight against Lassa fever on campuses takes a newer dimension, CHARLES ABAH reports Authorities of the various universities in the country have deployed various strategies, including the use of cats, in order to prevent an outbreak of Lassa fever on campuses, findings by our correspondents reveal.

Dr Kabir Getso, Kano State Commissioner for Health, said on Monday in Kano that the state had recorded three confirmed cases of Lassa fever since the outbreak in December, 2015.

Brazil recently experienced its worst outbreak of yellow fever in decades, with 792 confirmed cases.

Late last week Texas public health officials confirmed a new wave of dengue fever has cropped up in the southernmost tip of Texas, marking the first outbreak the state has seen since 2005.

«A large urban outbreak of yellow fever virus in a tropical megacity is a terrifying prospect,» said Ebel.

From April to September 2007, the largest outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever since 2003 unfolded in the Kasaï Occidental province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The current Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, which has claimed more than 2000 lives, has highlighted the need for a deeper understanding of the molecular biology of the virus that could be critical in the development of vaccines or antiviral drugs to treat or prevent Ebola hemorrhagic fever.

To stop the outbreak from moving across international borders, the WHO recommends that all countries should be prepared to detect and manage Ebola cases, and to manage travelers originating from known Ebola - infected areas who arrive with unexplained fever.