Sentences with phrase «human epidemic of»

For example, in 2009, there was a human epidemic of «H1N1» virus.

Originally written in 1951, Alan W. Watts» thoughts about how to resolve, once and for all, the twin human epidemic of insecurity and anxiety are particularly relevant as technology forces humanity to move faster and faster.

Hidden Hitchhikers — Parasites — Researchers believe that parasitic developments in humans may be partly responsible for the human epidemics of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.

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Calling the crisis a «national shame and a human tragedy,» Trump said ending the epidemic «will require the resolve of our entire country.»

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.

President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national emergency after a recommendation by his commission on the matter, just two days after Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price said the United States would not do so.

Secretary Alex M. Azar II of the Department of Health and Human Services began a multiagency news conference on the flu epidemic by addressing the Florida shootings.

And these books don't serve up blind patriotism nor are they revisionist in scope — the stories put a human face on some of our most tragic moments and failures as a nation like Japanese internment, the plight of home children, residential schools, flu epidemics, wars, child labour, the Halifax explosion, the Acadian expulsion, and so on.

Child abuse calls for all of us as a human race to find a solution to such a terrible epidemic.

Though most, if not all, humans are guilty of thinking judgmental and hypocritical thoughts, those making up roughly 60 % 0f the population who are truly ignorant, narrowminded, with lack of a personal identity (easily manipulated by peers) tend to go to the extreme of blowing the horn of self - righteousness by pointing out the flaws in other groups instead of focusing on their own flaws, which is an increased epidemic in this day in age especially in the age groups of 15 to 33.

The African aid's epidemic is just God's way of clearing away the sinners to them, the prejudged, the cursed, the afflicted, the gays, all just a problem of human waste to them, and yet they fight tooth and nail to save a few centimeters of cell's on some person they don't knows uterine wall.

This was the most severe influenza outbreak of the twentieth century and, in terms of total numbers of deaths, possibly the most devastating epidemic in human history.

She has the powers to «guard the boundaries of her territory, to protect all those inside these boundaries against disease in humans and cattle, particularly epidemic disease, and to bring rain for those who worship her.»

Whether the totalitarian governments collapse or change their ways and whether the change comes soon or late, the epidemic of purges and the spreading disaffection of once enthusiastic followers reinforce the old lesson that power in itself is no cure for man's ills, and that human institutions are not equal to the task of assuring human salvation.

Some of the specific stimuli of my sober reflections have been the histories of the fiendishly diverse injustices, cruelties, tyrannies and butcheries human beings have inflicted on one another — in particular the long, appalling story of Jewish suffering at the hands of Christian Europe with its insane climax under the Nazis; Camus's searing reflections on our blood - soaked century; accounts of the horrors of plagues and epidemics at whose complete mercy human beings for so long existed; and insights of depth psychology into the character and influence of the unconscious, childhood and repression in our behavior.

Religious leaders today have the awesome task of helping to lead people through what may well become the most deadly epidemic in human history.

Selective breeding of humans for specific attributes would ultimately lead to less diversity and leave the population more susceptible to epidemics for example.

And on the subject of public health, it is worth exploding the number one myth of anti-GM lobbyists that the antibiotic resistance genes carried by some GM crops might lead to devastating human epidemics if transferred to bacteria.

Indeed, I argue that the cultural dismantling of the three basic components of normal human infant sleep i.e. sleep position (on the back for breastfeeding which was changed to prone sleep), feeding method (from breastfeeding to formula or cows milk, bottle feeding) and infant sleep location (from next to the mother within sensory range to nighttime separation, a separate room) fostered and promoted the SIDS epidemic which is was limited to the industrialized, western world.

The adoption of the prone infant sleep position, bottle rather than breast feeding, and infants sleeping separate from their parents each proved to be independent risks for SIDS meaning... the dismantling of the human pattern of back sleep, with breastfeeding, with sleeping next to others caused the «SIDS» epidemic unique to the Western world and a loss of possibly as many as 600,000 babies.

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I think that medicalized birth practices resulting in inter-generational deprivation of our basic human rights has been a major contributor epidemics of diabetes and obesity and mental health problems.

Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon, Chairwoman of the Health and Human Services Committee, led an important discussion on Thursday to address the growing heroin and opioid epidemic facing the community.

«Women's rights are human rights — no exceptions,» Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, also the main advocate for accelerated, comprehensive and coordinated global action on the HIV / AIDS epidemic, has said.

So I walked a few short blocks to Old County Hall where the Health and Human Services Committee was gaveled in at 9:45 a.m.. Although I am not a member of this particular committee, I wanted to sit in because the issue of the heroin / opioid epidemic was being discussed.

It is our hope that these additional deputies are another step towards addressing the heroin epidemic,» said Legislator Lynne Dixon, Chairwoman of the Health and Human Services Committee.

After the first human case of SARS was recorded in 2002 in Guangdong Province in southern China, a global epidemic of the disease sickened more than 8,000 people and killed 774 in 2003.

Authors discuss the changing views of human rights in the context of the HIV / AIDS epidemic and propose further development of the right to health by increased practice, evidence, and action.

An international network for monitoring the flow of viruses from animals to humans might help scientists head off global epidemics

She's Margaret Hamburg, 53, the New York City health commissioner in the 1990s and later an official at the Department of Health and Human Services, where she specialized in bioterrorism and planning a response to a potential flu epidemic.

Thus, in contrast to some previous EVD outbreaks (14), continued human - reservoir exposure is unlikely to have contributed to the growth of this epidemic in areas represented by available sequence data.

The cause of devastating human epidemics throughout history, yellow fever is still rife in tropical South America and Africa.

The virus has caused 1,564 reported human infections to date in several epidemic waves (SN: 3/22/14, p. 32), and 39 percent of people infected have died.

The human outbreaks consisted of multiple simultaneous epidemics caused by different viral strains, and each epidemic resulted from the handling of a distinct gorilla, chimpanzee, or duiker carcass.

Heroin is one part of the opioid epidemic gripping the nation, claiming almost 13,000 lives in 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The results suggest that drugs capable of targeting similar molecular pathways in human fat cells could one day become major tools for fighting the growing worldwide epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes, according to senior investigator Shingo Kajimura, PhD, an assistant professor of cell and tissue biology in UCSF's School of Dentistry.

Sabeti stresses that her team only has a «circumstantial» case about the timing of the mutation and the epidemic's explosion, but her group and an independent team that published the second study have amassed what she calls «compelling evidence» that for the first time links a mutation in the virus to a preference for human cells.

«Since it's impossible to predict which of these agents will cause the next epidemic, it would be ideal to develop a single therapy that could treat or prevent infection caused by any known ebolavirus,» says study co-leader Zachary A. Bornholdt, Ph.D., director of antibody discovery at Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Inc. «Our discovery and characterization of broadly neutralizing human antibodies is an important step toward that goal,» adds study co-leader, Kartik Chandran, Ph.D., professor of microbiology & immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

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 challenges.

The potential for epidemics to occur in parts of Africa and the Asia - Pacific region is particularly concerning given that the vast numbers of people who could be exposed to Zika virus are living in environments where health and human resources to prevent, detect, and respond to epidemics are limited.

Writing in a linked Comment, Dr Abraham Goorhuis and Professor Martin P Grobusch, Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands say: «An important prerequisite for the occurrence of large - scale epidemics is the presence of an immunologically naive human population.

Even seemingly intractable problems such as the antibiotic crisis and the obesity epidemic could be resolved by treating human health and society as an integral part of an ecosystem.

Seasonal influenza is a serious respiratory disease that causes annual epidemics in humans worldwide, resulting in about three to five million cases of severe illness and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.

Utilizing the largest data set of mobile phone records ever analyzed to estimate human mobility, the researchers developed an innovative model that can predict epidemics and provide critical early warning to policy makers.

The BRS virus is equivalent to the human RS virus and causes most of the cases of serious pneumonia that lead to fatalities in calves and to epidemics which can spread to a large number of farms in the same area.

Of the three strains of HIV known to infect humans, we know that two — the one causing the global AIDS epidemic and another that has infected a small number of people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIOf the three strains of HIV known to infect humans, we know that two — the one causing the global AIDS epidemic and another that has infected a small number of people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIof HIV known to infect humans, we know that two — the one causing the global AIDS epidemic and another that has infected a small number of people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIof people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIV.

He now believes the AIDS epidemic may have emerged not because humans acquired HIV from monkeys, but because existing human strains of HIV mutated to become more infectious.

With the NIH's help, he has been pursuing a cutting - edge question about human behavior: How do networks of people — in particular, long - haul truck drivers — work together to accelerate the spread of an epidemic, even when some of them don't know one another?

This decline in occupational energy expenditure is thought to play a substantial role in the rising obesity epidemic we have observed over that same time period,» says Dr. Lucas Carr, an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Human Physiology and member of the Obesity Research and Education Initiative at the UI.

The U.S. «is in the midst of an unprecedented opioid epidemic,» according to the Department of Health and Human Services.