Sentences with phrase «in endemic countries»

It produces a watery diarrhea, which can cause life - threatening dehydration in infants or other vulnerable populations in endemic countries.
Recently, Zika virus was discovered in serum and saliva from marmosets living in the wild in Brazil, suggesting that these non-human primates are «a potential reservoir for maintaining Zika virus in endemic countries,» according to Patterson's report.
This candidate vaccine has the potential to have a significant impact on public health in view of the high disease burden in endemic countries

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It is considered endemic in these countries, the CDC said in a statement, and many people who live there are likely immune.
The migration «problem» in Italy feeds into many other endemic issues in Italy — as well as highlighting the problem of organized crime, the country's north - south divide.
Although in recent decades western governments introduced strict anti-bribery laws, PSC employees say illicit payments are endemic in both countries.
There is a healthy amount of speculation, but this is endemic to the culture in these countries.
Poverty, corruption, drug abuse and gang warfare are endemic to many countries in South America, especially in its city favelas.
The Santa Marta Mountains, with the tallest peaks in the country, are completely cut off from the Andes and therefore have a high density of endemics.
The dangers of this must be emphasised because of the widespread use of feeding bottles in many developing countries where diarrhoeal diseases are endemic.
It is difficult to deny the sobering effect the ICC has had in a country where impunity has been endemic.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph the Tory MP said «we have minority communities in this country which come from backgrounds where corruption is endemic»In an interview with The Daily Telegraph the Tory MP said «we have minority communities in this country which come from backgrounds where corruption is endemic»in this country which come from backgrounds where corruption is endemic».
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic infection that is endemic in 74 developing countries and an extremely important public health problem, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
This highlights another problem: big pharma tends to be less interested in developing vaccines for diseases endemic to developing countries.
Analyzing China, for example, the report balances that country's centralized planning and financial strength against countervailing factors such as its «endemic» corruption, repressive political structure, opaque legal system, and insistence that, in return for access to its vast market, foreign companies surrender proprietary intellectual property.
H5N1 has become endemic in many countries, including China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India and Egypt, and the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that, with current resources, it would take at least a decade to stamp out the virus in such countries.
This phase 3 trial took place in dengue - endemic areas across five countries in Asia, a region that accounts for over 70 % of the global dengue burden.
Through the first three quarters of 2009, Indonesia failed to report any flu cases at all, even though the Food and Agriculture Organization (a body of the United Nations that monitors avian influenza in birds) has found the infection to be deeply entrenched among fowl in 31 of the country's 33 provinces and endemic in Java, Sumatra, and Bali.
Since the push to eliminate the disease began in the late 1980s, the number of countries where polio is endemic has fallen from more than 125 to just 3: Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
«Given the wide variation in the transmission of the disease — endemic areas, areas of low endemicity, hyperendemic areas, and sometimes these strata all occurring in the same country — we prefer to look at each country separately without aggregates over the entire continent,» Buj says.
The research paper «Mapping internal connectivity through human migration in malaria endemic countries» published in Scientific Data details the methods they employed, and presents the freely available data.
Insecticides being sprayed on coffee plants in Uganda, a country with endemic schistosomiasis.
So although it's an important weapon in endemic areas, the vaccine is risky in countries that are currently disease free.
In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates in countries where HAV is endemic, all children are infected with HAV before the age of In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates in countries where HAV is endemic, all children are infected with HAV before the age of in countries where HAV is endemic, all children are infected with HAV before the age of 9.
«This may explain why Zika is not passed to the unborn child of every pregnant woman in dengue - endemic countries exposed to virus.»
A devastating cattle disease endemic in California's foothill country causes pregnant heifers to lose their fetuses in the third trimester, killing an estimated 5 % to 10 % of the state's annual beef calf «crop» — a loss of 45,000 to 90,000 animals.
Plague is endemic in many countries — the United States had 16 cases of bubonic plague in 2015 — but Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Peru are the countries that frequently have serious outbreaks.
There are experts in all countries with endemic plague who monitor the disease, with the help of the World Health Organization and sometimes the CDC.
The virus, the result of a reassortment of four strains of influenza A virus subtype H1N1 (one endemic in humans, one in birds, and two in pigs), has claimed around a hundred lives and been reported in over 50 countries.
Although there is an effective HBV vaccine, only around 50 percent of people in some countries where the disease is endemic are vaccinated.
Canine rabies is endemic in Turkey, for example, a country which is seeking closer ties with the EU.
The «culture of waste» endemic in the use of water in many Middle Eastern countries is the target for Hillel's harshest criticism.
The World Health Organization reports that although the parasitic illness has almost disappeared in countries where sanitation has improved, children remain especially vulnerable in endemic regions due to their elevated contact with dirt.
Cholera, which is carried by faeces - tainted water, is endemic in Nepal: there was an outbreak in Kathmandu, the country's capital, just before the peacekeepers flew in from there between 9 and 16 October.
Although we have been able to push back the disease with antibiotics, leprosy remains endemic in many developing countries today.
Prospects seemed much brighter for the other subspecies, T. brucei gambiense, which is endemic in countries in Central and West Africa and causes the remaining 98 % of cases.
Research led by WorldPop, based at the University, examined and mapped the movement of the disease from endemic countries (those where malaria is regularly found in the population) to around 40 countries defined as being malaria - free or non-endemic (such as the UK).
«One shot of DNA vaccine will offer protection for years at a much lower cost, which is especially beneficial for endemic countries in Latin America and Africa.»
Today endemic polio remains in only three countries: Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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The Kwiatkowski group investigates Plasmodium, Anopheles and human genome variation in large clinical and epidemiological studies carried out with partners in over 20 malaria - endemic countries.
This is difficult for any disease but is particularly challenging for diseases that are endemic in low - and middle - income countries with limited health systems and research infrastructure.
Our vision is a world where the burden caused by infectious diseases endemic in developing countries, such as malaria, dengue fever and pneumococcus, is substantially reduced through effective monitoring, control and, eventually, elimination.
Since then, a small number of cases have been reported each year in individuals with recent travel history to a dengue - endemic country.
The individuals he is talking about are «Cartel Land's» twin protagonists, vigilantes from two different countries and two different cultures who are determined, each in his own way, to fight back against the endemic violence the Mexican drug cartels bring to everything they touch.
Kirby Dick's devastating documentary about the U.S. Military's systemically endorsed sexual abuses against its own soldiers, puts yet another puzzle - piece in America's horrific reality as a country submerged in endemic corruption and anarchy at every level of society.
It's bad enough in this country but it seems to be endemic in France - and Belgium.
Ms. Roberts» appearance on the show was to inform adopting families about certain medical conditions endemic in developing countries.
In the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regulates importations of dogs and cats and these animals should not be imported from rabies - endemic countries until one month after they receive their rabies vaccination (given at 3 months of age).
This name was given due to the fact that this is the only country in the world where you can find the Kiwi bird, an endangered flightless bird that is endemic to
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