Sentences with phrase «global pandemic»

Still, emerging diseases usually don't become global pandemics, and climate change is only one factor in an extremely complicated, extremely mobile 21st - century disease landscape.

Directed by Stefan Ruzowitsky (Deadfall), Patient Zero sees «an unprecedented global pandemic of a super strain of rabies resulting in the -LSB-...]

One has only to look back a few years to the 2003 scare over SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), which ended up causing about 774 deaths worldwide, for a recent measure of the potential for global pandemic panic.

We can not stop global pandemics until billions of people gain access to better health care, and we can not address climate change or scarcer resources until billions gain access to greener energy and sustainable livelihoods.

They like the fact that researchers are frantically searching for cures for cancer, and Alzheimer's and dreaded viruses galore, and working to prevent the next global pandemic, and trying to keep the environment safe from threats, whether in our backyards or far away.

A LAB reconstruction of the 1918 flu virus, cause of the deadliest global pandemic ever recorded, is showing frightening similarities with H5N1, the bird flu that killed dozens of people across east Asia last year.

Each studio was assigned a NuVu coach with deep content expertise — such as a physician knowledgeable about global pandemics — plus regular classroom teachers to help manage the learning experience.

STOPPING GLOBAL PANDEMICS BEFORE THEY START With Michael T. Osterholm of the University of Minnesota; Moncef Slaoui of GlaxoSmithKline; and Bryan Walsh of Time — Report by Katie Fehrenbacher — Video: The Current Model For Fighting Pandemics Is Broken — Video: Two Things That Help New Vaccines Gain Trust — Video of the entire session

An international team of scientists have designed a new generation of universal flu vaccines to protect against future global pandemics that could kill millions.

The security and global pandemic concerns of the 21st century have also encouraged the rapid growth of monitoring for infectious disease and bioterror agents.

Gostin: The risk of a deadly global pandemic over the long term is actually quite high.

If the new global pandemic thriller «Contagion» was directed by anybody else, it would have had an enormous -LSB-...]

Patient Zero An uprecedented global pandemic of a super strain of rabies has turned the majority of humankind into highly intelligent, streamlined killers known as «The Infected».

Military officials are taking the sudden, sweeping global pandemic seriously as they look for vulnerabilities in this rapid outbreak thought to be either viral or bacterial.

Carriers captures the sobering desperation of humankind in the midst of a highly contagious global pandemic.

Days Gone looks like a shooter with a story - driven narrative about a lost soul's path to hope after a devastating global pandemic.

«While international agencies have been spending their funds in controlling infectious diseases, evidence of non-communicable [chronic] diseases reveals an alarming global pandemic and associated fatalities» (Strong et al, 2005)

Stefan Ruzowitzky is directing the thriller about «an unprecedented global pandemic that causes the evolution of a new species.

Overcrowded pig and poultry farms are reservoirs for global pandemics; animals raised in them are pumped full of antibiotics, spurring the rise of drug - resistant superbugs.

Now, researchers say, they have found that bats in China are carrying a closely related virus — one that can directly infect human cells and could potentially cause the next global pandemic.

I don't worry about global warming or global pandemics or saving whales.

China generates 35 per cent of world economic growth and is at the heart of solutions to climate change, global pandemics and global poverty.

Using a fictional «zombie virus» to illustrate how quickly an illness can become a global pandemic is an exercise in the mathematical principle of epidemiology.

Sociologist and theologian Elaine Storkey, author of Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women, explains that a global pandemic affects women regardless of culture, region or country, or even to particular groups of women in a society.

• The emergence of new global challenges like climate change, global pandemics, or global terrorism, which require international responses.

Our Charity is heartened to see that preventing infections is now seen as a top priority in healthcare, and that it is acknowledged that no - one is immune from the global pandemic of hospital and community acquired infections that can cause so much suffering to those who are unfortunate enough to succumb to disease caused by infections, and the heartache of those families that have lost a loved one.

The entire amphibian class is currently afflicted by a global pandemic that is accelerating extinction at an alarming rate.

Proponents counter that the threat of a global pandemic, were this mutated strain to arise in nature, is far greater than the threat of bioterrorism.

A vaccine that could bring an end to this global pandemic is needed desperately, yet no candidate vaccine has ever performed well in clinical trials.

Indeed, the pessimists among them talk about the planet being on the brink of a «global pandemic» of wildfires as a vast tinderbox of flammable shrubs and dead vegetation accumulates in forests, brush and grassland.

Ahead of the Summer Olympic Games in London four years ago, researchers reported that physical inactivity was a global pandemic that required urgent action.

If Asian bird flu mutates into a form that spreads easily between humans, an outbreak of just 40 infected people would be enough to cause a global pandemic.

In contrast to some initial studies that had suggested that H7N9 poses an imminent risk of a global pandemic, the new research found, based on analyses of virus samples from the Chinese outbreak, that H7N9 is still mainly adapted for infecting birds, not humans.

If the latter were true, and H7N9 could now spread from human to human, the Chinese outbreak might be the start of a global pandemic.

Tuberculosis continues to be a global pandemic, second only to AIDS as the greatest single - agent killer in the world.

The UC San Diego report is part of a special journal supplement featuring a variety of studies examining aspects of the «global pandemic of falsified medicines.»

If Asian bird flu mutates into a form that spreads easily between humans, an outbreak in just 40 people would be enough to cause a global pandemic

Outbreaks of two deadly viruses captured the world's attention in 2013, but neither turned into the global pandemic expected to strike one of these years.

Despite the surge, the World Health Organization (WHO) hasn't yet raised its pandemic alert level to indicate that a global pandemic is under way.

Researchers in Germany have developed a transgenic mouse that could help scientists identify new influenza virus strains with the potential to cause a global pandemic.

We aim to develop a globally - effective HIV vaccine which, in combination with other proven prevention strategies, would enable us not only to protect our Warfighters from HIV, but would be critical in the control of the global pandemic.

Organisers of the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) 2016, held in Manchester this summer (July 24 - 27), have announced fourteen topical sessions which feature some of the programme's best speakers tackling areas such as doping in elite sport, global pandemics and cyber security.

We aim to develop a globally - effective HIV vaccine which, in combination with other proven prevention strategies, would enable us not only to protect our Troops from HIV, but could also help curb the global pandemic.

When Proto launched its inaugural issue in 2005, researchers were anxiously watching a new flu virus called H5N1, which many were concerned might lead to a global pandemic.