Sentences with phrase «in widespread outbreaks»

Zika was known for 60 years as a mild virus that appeared sporadically, but since 2007, two troubling shifts have taken place, Dye said: Zika virus now results in widespread outbreaks of hundreds or thousands of cases, and it is associated with neurological disorders like microcephaly and Guillain - Barre syndrome, a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks the nerves.

In this widespread outbreak, Oregon seemed to be a lucky outlier.

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In October 2015, the foundation announced seven new grants totaling $ 11 million to prevent future widespread Ebola outbreaks.

«Germs with unusual antibiotic resistance widespread in U.S: Ramped - up CDC strategy helps providers stop spread of new germs, prevents large outbreaks.»

Zucker is also requiring local health officials to develop their own Zika action plans to be used in the case of a widespread outbreak.

There was no widespread outbreak of panic across the United States in response to Orson Welles» 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells» The War of the Worlds.

In general, examining the potential effects of other flaviviruses on pregnant women and their developing fetuses is difficult, because outbreaks have been sporadic and less widespread than with Zika.

The potential for a widespread pellagra outbreak surged in flood - ravaged areas of Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

The outbreak of deaths could have been tied to an increase in the number of grinding machines in the villages in November of 2009, «contributing to widespread contamination,» the researchers reported.

Although Ebola outbreaks are relatively rare — fewer than 1000 cases have been reported worldwide — the virus poses a widespread threat, as Thomas Folks of the CDC points out in a commentary accompanying the paper in Nature Medicine.

And if you've hiked in the Rockies since 2009, you've likely hiked through a dead and dying forest, felled by a widespread outbreak of the mountain pine beetle.

EVERY news report says so, but will the floods in Pakistan really trigger widespread disease outbreaks?

He believes the outbreak's spread will almost certainly cause Japan in the next few days to go from a designation of an early stage of community transmission to widespread community transmission in its own pandemic preparedness plan.

«The widespread movement of the Ebola virus within Liberia, due to a high rate of migration in the country, is likely to have played an important role in the magnitude and longevity of the Liberian portion of the Ebola outbreak,» Ladner says.

It has been just over a year since a widespread salmonella outbreak in the the US led to the recall of half a billion eggs.

This virus first reached the United States in late 2006; fortunately, experts think that chances of a widespread outbreak are slim.

Tonight, Danish - born Nicolas Winding Refn («Only God Forgives,» «Drive») proved to be a blood brother in infamy with French director Olivier Assayas («Personal Shopper»), winning this competition's second outbreak of widespread booing with the French / USA / Danish production «The Neon Demon.»

New York Magazine reported on the issue in its February 2015 edition, noting that widespread vaccine avoidance can trigger outbreaks of diseases that were once thought to be under control, such as distemper.

A: Administering core vaccinations to all animals at intake — as described by this shelter — is a critical practice in minimizing infectious disease and preventing widespread outbreaks.

The dog influenza outbreak of 2015 was a serious and widespread disease that inflicted illness to many dogs in Chicago.

The virus is widespread in some parts of Asia and is causing outbreaks in various locations of the United States, especially in shelters.

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The trait, he proposed, comes to the surface when such people confront strong messaging on the need for emissions reductions amid enduringly murky science on what's driving some particular extreme environmental phenomenon in the world — whether a brief period of widespread melting on the Greenland ice sheet, a potent drought, a tornado outbreak or the extreme event of the moment, the hybrid nor» easter / hurricane known on Twitter as #Frankenstorm.

The US now faces the largest outbreak of whooping cough in decades, in part because of widespread denial of the benefits of vaccinations (Rosenau, 2012).

Furious volcanic blasts have been historically associated with climate change: an eruption of Mt Tambora in what is now Indonesia in 1815 was followed by Europe's notorious «year without a summer» in 1816, along with widespread harvest failure, famine and outbreaks of disease.

«Recent climate changes in this region may have had substantial impact on the carbon balance of Canadian boreal forests as a result of increased fire frequency, an unprecedented expansion of insect outbreaks, and widespread drought - induced tree mortality,» the authors write, but focused their study on drought.

Richard was Junior Counsel to the Pennington Inquiry (engaged 2007 - 2009) into the E Coli O157 outbreak in South Wales in 2005, which led to widespread illness and a fatality.

Perhaps there should be an investigation of the drinking water in the community to see what suddenly caused the widespread outbreak of such a rare condition.