Sentences with phrase «how outbreaks of viruses»

I want my students to develop an understanding of how outbreaks of viruses and disease continue to drive scientists» understanding of a disease.

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To show just how rapidly Zika gained a foothold in the Americas, we created a GIF displaying all of the places that the Zika virus has spread through local transmission since the start of the outbreak:

Although Zika's path was documented starting in 2015 through records of human cases, less was known about how the virus spread so silently before detection, or how outbreaks in different parts of Central and South America were connected.

Researchers studied the structure of proteins from one strain of the H7N9 virus that caused the outbreak and tested how strongly one of the proteins bound to molecules on the surfaces of bird and human cells.

Thus, there is limited knowledge about the extent and mechanisms of transmission during the current outbreak in the Americas and even less about how the virus is circulating in Asia.

In the past two years, genetic sequence information of the flu - virus protein hemagglutinin from only two influenza strains from India has been deposited into publicly available influenza databases, making it difficult to determine exactly which strain is causing the new outbreak, and how it differs from previous strains.

The most recent outbreak in 2014 has illustrated the lack of understanding of viral pathogenesis and highlighted the need for increased study of how the Ebola virus replicates.

Fifteen months after the 1999 outbreak of West Nile virus in New York City, which sickened 62 mostly elderly people and killed seven, scientists are still hard pressed to predict how abundant the virus will eventually become or how serious a public health threat it will pose.

For the paper, «Transmission dynamics and control of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Nigeria, July - September, 2014,» published today in Eurosurveillance, researchers used epidemic modeling to project the size of the outbreak in Nigeria if control interventions had been implemented during various time periods after the initial case and estimated how many cases had thus been prevented by early initiation of interventions.

Although we don't know how many health workers reported being ill and were assessed to decide if they needed to be tested, protocols for the management of possible exposure to the virus, and for the management of illness, may need reviewing and to be standardised across organisations that deploy staff to outbreaks.

A global team of researchers has sequenced and made publicly available more than 200 additional genomes from Ebola virus samples to capture the fullest picture yet of how the virus is transmitted and how it has changed over the course of the recent outbreak

And the virus can become genital herpes through physical contact, so no matter how tempting, best to lay off any kissing or intimacy while one of you has an outbreak.