Sentences with phrase «flu outbreaks»

They were concerned about stories they had seen or read in the local news about dog flu outbreaks.

As animal experts around the country amplify their warnings about dog flu outbreaks, pet owners are scrambling to understand the illness and learn how they can protect their pets.

A: Dog Flu outbreaks occur relatively frequently.

Pet care facility owners and veterinarians participated in a roundtable discussion about the devastating Dog Flu outbreaks they experienced, and why vaccination requirements are important to them.

We also know that pharmaceutical companies and the vets who hold patents on canine influenza have a keen interest in the number of reports on dog flu outbreaks.

They were concerned about stories they had seen or read in the news about dog flu outbreaks.

Well, people were already pretty scared of the recent swine flu outbreaks in 2009 and vets and vaccine manufacturers were eager to prey on pet owners» fears and cash in when canine influenza (dog flu) hit at the same time.

Ultimately, these tests may help guard against H5N1 bird flu outbreaks.

More coverage is spent on school budgets, crime and flu outbreaks, the report notes, than education policy issues.

At Google's offices, he sees this at work and reveals just how Google can predict flu outbreaks, even before hospitals have begun to need to respond to them.

Future pandemic flu outbreaks would be ranked, like hurricanes, on a scale of 1 to 5, and school closures of up to three months would be recommended for more severe outbreaks, according to a planning guide released jointly last week by the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Though early in the season, the Centers for Disease Control has already alerted more than a dozen states, many in the South and Southwest, of local flu outbreaks.

Google Earth — the company's interactive map — is already be used to track avian flu outbreaks and mutations [link needs Google Earth application].

A new service from the web giant warns of flu outbreaks as related searches increase in frequency - it could one day warn of new infectious diseases

Even though using social media to predict sexually transmitted disease will never be perfect, if the analysis is carefully carried out it «can provide a lot of information,» says Alessandro Vespignani at Northeastern University, Boston, who was one of the authors of a prominent paper on Google Flu Trends, which used a similar method in an attempt to predict flu outbreaks.

They show that seasonal flu outbreaks originate in warm, humid areas of the south and southeastern U.S. and move northward, away from the coasts.

At temperatures up to about 24 °C, drier climates encourage flu outbreaks, as seen in North America.

Some researchers thought that meant climate just isn't that important a factor in tropical flu outbreaks.

Now, using mathematical techniques created for studying fluctuating fish populations, a team of researchers has shown that both temperature and humidity influence the timing of flu outbreaks all over the world — a finding that could lead to new ways to fight the virus.

If this idea turns out to have merit, then it might help fight winter flu outbreaks by, say, simply putting humidifiers in schools, homes for the elderly, and hospitals.

One study from Taiwan tracked avian flu outbreaks downwind of Asian dust storms and found that the flu virus might be transported long - distance by air spiked with the dust.

Focusing on flu outbreaks in the U.S. between 2003 and 2008, Justin Ortiz from the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington and colleagues from CDC and PATH, a Seattle - based nonprofit health organization, found that Google Flu Trends deviated greatest from CDC surveillance figures for laboratory - confirmed flu rates during the 2003 — 2004 flu season, which saw a high number of flu - related deaths in children and, as a result, was a hot topic in the media.

Based on this information, the researchers nailed down when and where the next flu outbreaks were likely to occur.

Previous efforts to forecast flu outbreaks via the Internet — including studies that used Twitter and Wikipedia records and a project called Google Flu Trends — have scanned specifically for flu - related words.

For their next steps, the researchers are consulting with colleagues to determine if patients being treated with Accolate and Singulair are less likely to develop influenza pneumonia during flu outbreaks.

We get flu outbreaks every year, but these are viruses we have developed an immunity to.

Since 2007, avian flu outbreaks have diminished in poultry and in people in Indonesia and the investigators found that the the rate of infection in pigs has similarly dropped.

Normal seasonal flu outbreaks have only one peak of infection — the number of cases starts very low, increases to a maximum, then decreases to a very low level, and remains at a low level until the next flu season.

These findings improve understanding of the mechanisms that make flu outbreaks so difficult to prevent, and inform efforts to design more effective flu vaccines that are less easily thwarted by continual mutation.

Albright's team found that blood relatives of flu victims were more likely to die than non-relatives — even during different flu outbreaks — and the risk was greater the more closely related they were.

After 1919, the descendants of the H1N1 virus continue to circulate and cause seasonal flu outbreaks in humans — and pigs.

The emergence of the new H1N1 flu strain has demonstrated the effectiveness of existing systems to watch for human flu outbreaks while also proving a long - standing theory that pigs could serve as mixing vessels for a pandemic virus.

They chose the H5 and H7 subtypes because they have been the cause of recent bird flu outbreaks and have pandemic potential.

The researchers picked the H1 and H3 subtypes because they have been the major cause of human seasonal flu outbreaks since 1918.

Researchers used Twitter searches for nonflu words associated with behavior to predict flu outbreaks two weeks in advance.

P.S. 68 in Wakefield closed today along with four other schools on suspicions of swine flu outbreaks.

Elderberries have strong antiviral properties and have been shown to shorten the duration of cold and flu outbreaks in research.

Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, meanwhile, tapped the agency to run a hyper - local UK campaign which combined sales data with external data around search behaviour, social media and weather to forecast pollen count rises or flu outbreaks.

It has been a pretty good tool for predicting flu outbreaks in the past, even if they were a bit off this year.

What it does: This bacteria was mistakenly believed to be the culprit behind flu outbreaks back when it was first discovered in 1892.

One of the world's richest men is worried that too much regulation will stop the world from controlling a major flu outbreak.

«As our business is involved with sending people overseas we needed to ensure that we are diversified across many countries and regions to avoid the risks of things like flu outbreak, terrorist attacks, war in the region, government unrest, natural disasters, etc.,» says David.

Flu season can last through May, and H3N2 — the viral strain that's propped up most often during the ongoing flu outbreak — is a particularly nasty one, according to public health experts.

It seems like nothing at all will be done on the country's most urgent public health crisis, just as the White House did nothing about the severe flu outbreak over the winter or about the blackouts in Puerto Rico.

but this is a scheme to scrapNHS direct with its nurses and give the service to a call centre what would happened in the swine flu outbreak without nhs direct what would happen this weekend without nhs direct the patients willsimply turn up at A&E The Tories talked about changing (ie devolving to ambulance trusts) not scrapping

Dr. Daines gives listeners an update on the swine flu outbreak and discusses where the virus has been found in New York.

But it began to take on new urgency for some lawmakers following the flu outbreak in January.

BASC is urging its members and the wider shooting community to plan ahead and follow the advice endorsed by government after Defra confirmed a bird «flu outbreak at a third site in Lancashire.

«I am directing the Department of Health to work with local providers to help protect our communities from this flu outbreak, and I urge all New Yorkers to visit local health centers and get vaccinated as soon as possible.»

There is a new issue on Governor Paterson's plate — the swine flu outbreak.