Sentences with phrase «first outbreak of the disease»

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The first weeks of college can be tough, but there's been an outbreak of college kids getting hand, foot, and mouth disease and it's strange, because it's something that usually affects children.

The government's claim to have swiftly contained the first outbreak of foot and mouth disease has been cast into doubt.

Rumours emerged Wednesday that the first case of the disease has been recorded in Accra, a month after the Ghana Health Service issued a public health alert warning Ghanaians of a possible outbreak in the country.

Stringer has hit de Blasio intermittently through the first three years of his mayoralty, for everything from his handling of the universal prekindergarten program to his response to last summer's Legionnaire's disease outbreak.

The city's response to the deadly outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the South Bronx became the subject of the latest clash between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Scott Stringer, as Mr. Stringer accused the city of having had a «laid - back attitude» toward the disease when the first fatalities began to appear late last month.

Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization are the organizations we think of first when it comes to containing a pandemic, the greatest asset in any surveillance network is always going to be your local health department, where the signs of an outbreak are going to be registered first.

W. Ian Lipkin, director of the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, led the scientific team that identified the first U.S. outbreak of West Nile virus in 1999.

«We found that in each of the regions we could analyze, Zika virus circulated undetected for many months, up to a year or longer, before the first locally transmitted cases were reported,» says Bronwyn MacInnis, an infectious disease geneticist at the Broad Institute, in Cambridge, Mass. «This means the outbreak in these regions was under way much earlier than previously thought.»

Aug. 1, 2016: The CDC issues a travel warning that pregnant women should avoid a specific neighborhood in Miami, one of the first times the agency has done this because of a disease outbreak in the continental U.S.

«To our knowledge, this is the first documentation of an outbreak of childhood lead poisoning associated with artisanal gold mining,» the team, directed by lead experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wrote in the online edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Zika is not new to the U.S. Even as early as 2007, when the mosquito - borne disease had its first large outbreak in the Pacific island nation of Micronesia, the virus directly touched the U.S. — sickening one American traveler.

First, they tried to see if they could predict outbreaks of contagious disease.

«Genomics has been used to monitor infectious disease outbreaks before, but this is the first time it's ever been possible to declare a complicated outbreak of TB over,» said Gardy.

What if the virus first jumped from an infected pig in the United States to a migrant Mexican who returned home to Mexico, which then had an explosive outbreak of the disease?

The intense global focus on the disease also was instrumental in accelerating the first meeting of the World Health assembly in 1947 in response to a cholera outbreak in Egypt.

Although this is not the first major health crisis that HealthMap has covered — the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic was one of its largest efforts — the Ebola outbreak has pushed the site in new directions in an effort to provide information for a variety of institutions, including the WHO, the United Nations and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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These new regulations required for the first time that WHO member countries report disease outbreaks that might cross their borders and also stipulated that they provide WHO with scientific rationales if they independently take actions that impede traffic or trade, like restricting travel or banning the importation of pigs.

As the Ebola outbreaks rages on in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO), desperate for a way to help infected people, is reconsidering a potential Ebola treatment tried as far back as 1976, after the first documented outbreak of the deadly viral disease: using the blood of people who have recovered from an infection to treat those still fighting the virus.

During the first outbreak, no one knew what kind of disease it was nor how to treat it, he said.

They searched through 60 years of scientific and newspaper reports to determine two things: first, whether the pathogens cause visible disease symptoms or death in wildlife, and second, whether human outbreaks were preceded or accompanied by evidence of the disease in animals.

The first outbreak in Britain of the bee disease varroasis, now taking a hold in southwest England, has prompted the government to waive its lengthy vetting arrangements for the licensing of new agrochemicals.

The number of schoolchildren not vaccinated against childhood diseases in Texas is growing rapidly, which means that the state may see its first measles outbreaks in the winter or spring of 2018, Hotez predicted in a recent article in PLOS Medicine.

Close disease surveillance and targeted use of anti-viral drugs could be enough to keep a small outbreak of avian flu from becoming the first influenza pandemic in 36 years, according to a new...

Scientists have shown that the first appearance of wheat stem rust disease in the U.K. in nearly 60 years, which occurred in 2013, was caused by the same virulent fungal strain responsible for recent wheat stem rust outbreaks in Ethiopia, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden.

In developing countries like Uganda, where floods, food and water shortages, outbreaks of disease, the effects of HIV / AIDS, and internal conflicts occur, the funding of scientific research [will not be the first priority].

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While at first blush it may seem like a shelter is saving money by waiting to vaccinate only adoptable animals, in reality this practice sets a program up for major outbreaks of disease.

The first human outbreak of Lyme disease was identified in Lyme, Connecticut in 1975.

The first outbreak was in racing greyhounds in Florida, but the disease has quickly spread across the country, and has now been diagnosed in 34 states and the District of Columbia.

By Julie Lux, editor, goodnewsforpets.com First it was Mad Cow Disease and this year, concern over the outbreak of Foot...

The pattern of a sudden increase in the prevalence of acute respiratory disease, severity of illness, or a lack of response to antibiotic therapy is one of the first warning signs of a CIV outbreak.

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As you all are aware that during the first 5 years of child which have very high risk, India is having very high mortality rates and new diseases outbreak keep happening in oversaturated urban indian cities with poor healthcare facilities.