Sentences with phrase «global health emergency»
The emergence of artemisinin resistance (ART - R) in Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites, recently reported in Cambodia and Thailand, has become one of the most pressing global health emergencies.
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The WHO is responsible for coordinating global health emergencies, but the legislative body that oversees it has repeatedly voted to emphasize noncommunicable diseases such as heart disease and cancer rather than infectious diseases.
Such overuse of antibiotics in farm animals has led to the rise of drug - resistant «superbugs», which the World Health Organization has declared a «global health emergency».
The results could provide insights into the Zika virus» recent emergence as a global health emergency, and also point to inhibitors of the protein p53 as potential leads for drugs that could protect brain cells from cell death.
The World Health Organization will decide whether to declare the outbreak a global health emergency
In February, the World Health Organization's declaration of a global health emergency confirmed what doctors in Brazil had suspected for months: The mosquito - borne Zika virus had exploded in the South American country.
Although the World Health Organization ended its global health emergency on Zika last November, the virus could still make a comeback as temperatures get warmer and mosquito season ramps up.
Among the committee's recommendations: establish a Global Health Emergency Corps and a $ 100 million emergency fund, simplify the six phases WHO agonized over when trying to describe the escalating outbreak (possibly just baseline, alert phase, pandemic), and create advance agreements for vaccine distribution and delivery.
In 1993, resurging levels of tuberculosis due to this antibiotic resistance led the World Health Organization to declare it a global health emergency.
«I hope the critical importance of a global health emergency takes precedence over a political conflict,» says Robert Newman, director of the WHO's Global Malaria Programme.
PULLMAN, Wash. — How can a slow - flying insect tinier than a paper clip and as light as a Kleenex tissue be to blame for the global health emergency declared this week?
«Since Zika virus has emerged as a global health emergency, most research has focused on the virus and its effects on humans.
Today, Time announced the Ebola Fighters, the doctors and nurses in Liberia working the front lines of the global health emergency, as Person of the Year.
The virus, which has now spread to 60 countries and can also be transmitted through sex, was in February declared a global health emergency.