Sentences with phrase «global outbreak»

In an update to an analysis first published in June 2005, Bufe and colleague David Perkins, a USGS geophysicist also in Denver, argue that the most recent round of large temblors may mark the beginning of a new global outbreak of megaquakes.

In response to outbreaks like H1N1 and Ebola, the importance of the The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network has grown.

JOHANNESBURG, March 19 - Tiger Brands has closed its factory in Pretoria after listeria was detected at the plant as South Africa faces the worst global outbreak of the disease that has killed 180 people since January 2017.

«Because this was the first global outbreak of Zika virus, virtually everyone in the United States (and globally) had not been infected and was therefore susceptible to infection.»

The report comes on the heels of fears that the H5N1 flu virus currently circulating among birds in Southeast Asia and Africa may be the precursor to a deadly global outbreak or pandemic.

But the case is a grim reminder, experts say, that the very researchers fighting SARS could unleash its next global outbreak.

The agent belongs to the coronavirus group, which includes several common cold viruses but also the virus that causes SARS, a severe disease that killed more than 700 people during a fast - moving global outbreak in 2002 and 2003 before it was contained.

Because the immune system mounts an inadequate protective response against HIV, an HIV vaccine most likely will not be as effective as proven vaccines used to control or end global outbreaks, such as yellow fever and polio vaccines, which are nearly 100 percent effective.

Pandemics — global outbreaks of disease across countries and continents — have been a feature of human history for centuries: as inexplicable and frightening as the contagion in Emily Shultz's novel The Blondes, where women with blonde hair are turned into crazed maniacs.

Contagion Steven Soderbergh skillfully deploys an all - star cast in this taut pandemic thriller — made extra-terrifying by a global outbreak scenario too plausible for comfort.

The discovery has significant implications for our ability to control the global outbreak of new and re-emerging infections such as the Ebola and Zika viruses.

The wave — more than a month after the last reported case, a 73 - year - old man from Abu Dhabi who died in Munich on 26 March — has sparked fresh worries that the virus might start spreading between humans and trigger a global outbreak.

Fascinated by emerging diseases, he covered outbreaks on four continents, including the 2001 anthrax letters, the global outbreak of SARS in 2003, and the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

For comparison, its relative, SARS - CoV, killed less than 10 percent of people infected during a 2002 - 03 global outbreak.

This pilot study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and supported by the European Mobile Laboratory, a partner of the (WHO) Emerging and Dangerous Pathogens Laboratory Network and the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network.

Soderbergh applies his brainier brand of filmmaking to the global outbreak thriller genre, and the result is a hugely gripping blockbuster that never talks down to its audience.

The vehicle's January release just happened to coincide with a global outbreak.

This five volume manga series explores where the global outbreak that left the world infected with the C - virus originated.

The team monitored and responded to outbreaks of wildlife - originating diseases, such as the saiga antelope die - off in Kazakhstan and global outbreaks of avian influenza.

You forgot to mention the hysteria of global cooling in the 80s and the fact that we should have had a global outbreak of the bird flu by now.