Sentences with phrase «from epidemic disease»

So Nature published Pounds» more adamant connection to CO2 in «Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming».17 Embodying the forceful storyteller Pounds boldly stated, «we conclude with «very high confidence» (> 99 %, following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC) that large - scale warming is a key factor in the disappearances.

Pounds, J.A., et al., (2006) Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming.

«Up to 90 % of native South Americans died very quickly» after the conquest, mostly from epidemic disease, he says.

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and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

Systems science is an interdisciplinary field that studies how the interaction of factors produces outcomes — how the causes and consequences of events can, taken together, form the basis for everything from a disease epidemic, to a pattern of human behavior.

At times of epidemics, especially smallpox... some of our converts are exposed to great temptation to fall away from their Christian faith, and join their old heathen associates in offering to the Demon who is supposed to be the author of the disease.56

Though there have been many strides made towards ending the HIV / AIDS epidemic, such as the recent breakthrough of scientists using gene editing to remove HIV from the genome of T - cells, there is still much work to be done with over 1.2 million in the United States living with the disease.

Vaccines keep parents and children safe from preventable diseases, and help stop the spread of illnesses, such as the flu, that could turn into an epidemic or have...

The Swedish epidemic was a unique opportunity to try to tease apart feeding factors associated with celiac disease, and a retrospective case control study of Swedish kids revealed some patterns from the epidemic.

«Thanks to our aggressive public health initiatives that attack the disease from all angles, we are on track to meet our nation - leading goals and end the epidemic.»

Noninfectious diseases like allergies and asthma, already epidemic in America, are likely to get a boost from rising temperatures as well.

Deaths and cases of substance use disorders linked to opioid painkillers have risen to epidemic levels nationally, with more than 14,000 deaths from prescription opioids in 2014 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In the case of the avian flu epidemic that broke out in December 2003 and continued into the fall of 2004, 43 of the 44 people known to have contracted the disease appeared to have done so directly from animals.

Although 18th and 19th century archaeologists had discovered plenty of diseased remains at prehistoric sites in the Americas, they found no traces of the disease in European bones until a major epidemic hit Europe about 1500, just after Columbus returned from his 1493 voyage.

Modern living could be responsible for an «almost epidemic» increase in neurological brain disease, according to new research from Bournemouth University.

Public health efforts to prevent epidemics of infectious diseases typically rely on herd immunity: The more people in a community are vaccinated or otherwise protected from a disease, the less likely it is to be transmitted throughout the population.

A lice - borne typhus epidemic swept westward from Russia in the early 20th century, and by World War II, German troops in trenches on the Eastern Front were falling fast to the disease.

Diabetes is one of the world's fastest growing epidemics, with an estimated 225,000 people in Ireland alone suffering from the disease.

Ergot has played roles as a medicine, a toxin, and a hallucinogen; been implicated in everything from disease epidemics to the Salem witch trials; and more recently provided the hallucinogenic drug LSD.

From the creation of nanoparticles to the exploration of the Outer Space, from the attenuation of oil production to the zoonotic disease epidemics, human beings has achieved great scientific advancements, but are currently facing unprecedented challenFrom the creation of nanoparticles to the exploration of the Outer Space, from the attenuation of oil production to the zoonotic disease epidemics, human beings has achieved great scientific advancements, but are currently facing unprecedented challenfrom the attenuation of oil production to the zoonotic disease epidemics, human beings has achieved great scientific advancements, but are currently facing unprecedented challenges.

In the event of a disease epidemic, communities require targeted, consistent communications from trusted sources, according to graduate students who brought perspectives from their local communities to national stakeholders in emergency preparedness.

Three years after an Ebola epidemic swept across West Africa, researchers have found a clue to how the virus may live on in the eyes of survivors suffering from uveitis — one of the more serious and common complications of the disease.

He says that researchers could one day spare scores of lives and nip potential epidemics in the bud by whipping up a treatment within a month from natural antibodies that survivors developed against the threatening disease.

The best way to prevent a disease from turning into an epidemic is to closely monitor its development and put systems in place before it starts spreading rapidly through populations.

It was not immediately clear how the villagers from Korokpara had contracted Ebola but the area had resisted efforts to fight the disease in the initial epidemic.

«Tobacco smoking has now reached epidemic proportions in Asia and it is likely, with the maturation of this epidemic, and the lack of effective tobacco control efforts, smokers will continue to face an increased risk of death from cancer and other diseases.»

Because of this, people who have contracted the cholera which is endemic to much of the Third World, or people who have suffered from the worldwide epidemic now raging from Africa to South America, have no immunity to the new disease.

«West Africa will see much more suffering and many more deaths during childbirth and from malaria, tuberculosis, HIV — AIDS, enteric and respiratory illnesses, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and mental health during and after the Ebola epidemic,» they write.

In Oklahoma, farm workers are mixing manure from swine sick with the disease, known as Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv), into the food of healthy animals to build their immunity.

When a disease changes from just something that's going around to a true epidemic, there's usually a tipping point, Lum explains.

Using real - time data from Wikipedia and social media, Sara del Valle and her team from Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a global disease - forecasting system that will improve the way we respond to epidemics.

For the study, the team analyzed viral genomic sequences from 232 patient samples collected over the 7 - month spread of the disease in Sierra Leone, along with 86 genome sequences reported earlier in the epidemic.

With miniscule financial resources the group is successfully carrying out cutting - edge epidemiological research and has identified the predominant MSV genotypes that will confront MSV - resistant transgenics in different parts of the continent, has worked out the rates and pathways of virus spread throughout the continent and defined the specific regions within the continent that appear to be the cradles from which almost all new maize streak disease epidemics emerge.

RENO, Nev. - The search for answers to protect Central American frogs from extinction is also giving scientists clues on how to predict and respond to emerging diseases and epidemics in humans, plants and other wildlife.

An international effort to analyze the entire database of Ebola virus genomes from the 2013 — 2016 West African epidemic reveals insights into factors that sped or slowed the rampage and calls for using real - time sequencing and data - sharing to contain future viral disease outbreaks.

We found that both epidemics were the result of intercontinental introductions of seventh pandemic El Tor V. cholerae and that at least seven lineages local to the Americas are associated with disease that differs epidemiologically from epidemic cholera.

TUESDAY, April 25, 2017 (HealthDay News)-- America's prescription drug abuse epidemic may be even more deadly than expected, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests.

The microbiome is a newly discovered organ we need to support for sure, and from the current disease epidemics, we are obviously not doing a very good job.

Resolving the Coronary Artery Disease Epidemic through Plant - Based Nutrition Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD From the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Preventive Cardiology 2001; 4: 171 - 177

Decades of research by Dr. Loren Cordain and others demonstrate that hunter - gatherers typically were virtually free (though not completely) from the chronic diseases and health conditions that are epidemic in Western society.

In contrast, the Standard American Diet, customary in Western cultures where non-communicable chronic diseases reach epidemic levels, has an omega - 6 to omega - 3 fatty acid ratio ranging from 10:1 to 25:1

In fact, the hygiene hypothesis, embraced by many scientists, purports that the reason that autoimmune diseases and atopic disorders (eczema, allergies, asthma) are epidemic in the Western world while virtually absent from developing nations is the hyper - sanitized, antibiotic - ridden society in which we live, which has decimated our gut microflora and thus obliterated their beneficial effects on our immune systems (after all, 70 % of our immune system resides within our gut)(Vighi et al., 2008).

In contrast, the Standard American Diet, customary in Western cultures where non-communicable chronic diseases reach epidemic levels, has an omega - 6 to omega - 3 fatty acid ratio ranging from 10:1 to 25:1 (Simopoulos, 1991).

IFM is more determined than ever to help clinicians and patients alike develop the nutritional, environmental, social, and lifestyle strategies that, over time, will move us away from reacting to the chronic disease epidemic and toward a preventive, patient - empowered healthcare system focused on optimum wellness, not just freedom from symptoms.

They had the vision of bringing to clinical medicine the emerging evidence and insights that would enable it to move from the drug - based model of fighting infectious diseases that worked so well in the 20th century to a systems - oriented, patient - focused clinical model designed to reverse the growing chronic disease epidemic.

Thus, our current society is designed to produce an epidemic of people suffering from diabetes, obesity, and chronic diseases.

There is an enormous amount of misinformation circulating from seemingly knowledgeable sources about this epidemic disease.

This switch from base - to acid - forming diets may help explain our modern epidemic of kidney disease.

The reason I'm going into all this detail is that I'm hoping to empower both those suffering from the disease and those treating sufferers so as to better understand dietary interventions to prevent and treat the epidemic.

«Here in Germany we are suffering from an epidemic of autoimmune thyroid disease due to the government's huge campaign to iodize our salt and water.