Sentences with phrase «infected during an outbreak»

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During the exercise, Rockland health officials worked through a scenario where the largest grocery store in the county had an outbreak of hepatitis A and hundreds of people were infected.

To control the spread of cholera during an outbreak, rapid care for infected people is vital, including providing ready access to rehydration therapy — a huge challenge in a country where civil war has wreaked havoc on public health and other infrastructure.

More than 28,600 people were infected with the virus in West Africa during the outbreak, and 11,300 of those people died, Bowen said.

Anti-malaria drugs were routinely administered to all patients seen at the Treatment Unit during the Ebola outbreak and had no bearing on the increased survival in Plasmodium - infected patients in the study, the researchers say.

Such blood transfusions have not yet been systematically studied in humans for Ebola (although such transfusions have been used in limited circumstances including, reportedly, when U.S. physician Kent Brantly was infected with Ebola in Liberia and on others during an earlier outbreak elsewhere in 1995).

Although the risk of sexual transmission has been well publicized during the current outbreak, few scientists have reported success in isolating Zika virus from the semen of infected males, said Atkinson.

Marburg virus was first identified in 1967 during an outbreak in Marburg, Germany, when laboratory workers were infected while dissecting African green monkeys from Uganda.

A DNA study of bacteria samples taken from patients infected during the 2012 outbreak in Edinburgh shows that it was caused by several subtypes of the bacteria.

To better understand chikungunya infection rates in the blood supply, BSRI, in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Puerto Rico Blood Banks, Creative Testing Solutions and Hologic, a company that manufactures blood screening assays, recently completed a large study that documented very high rates of infected donations during the 2014 outbreak in Puerto Rico which infected nearly 25 % of the territory's population.

Reports of extra encephalitis during outbreaks of seasonal flu in Japan and the US, and most recently of swine flu - infected children hospitalised with neurological symptoms in Dallas, Texas, hint at a related mechanism, however.

Farmers often vaccinate healthy birds during slow - spreading outbreaks, leading to the possibility that chickens might be infected by two different vaccines, which is necessary for them to recombine.

The most detailed information available was collected during an outbreak in captive tigers at a Texas centre in 2013 when 16 of 22 tigers were clinically infected with CDV; seven died or were euthanized (V. Keahey, personal communication, 2013).

During the recent Ebola outbreak, government groups and companies rapidly developed vaccines for the virus that infected 28,000 people and killed 11,000.

Shortly afterwards, that outbreak hits home when — during a traffic jam with his family — he sees the first signs of the virus when he watches a group of infected humans attack people on the streets of Philadelphia.

Only a very small number of cats died during the outbreak, while hundreds of infected cats survived.

During this outbreak, one person became infected with the H7N2 flu virus after prolonged, unprotected exposure to the sick cats, the CDC said.

Puppies in this outbreak may have become infected at various points along the distribution chain when they had contact with infected puppies from other breeders or distributors during transport to pet store locations.

In most influenza situations, it is the very young and very old who experience the most severe disease but during the H3N2 outbreak, most infected dogs were healthy and middle - aged.

During the day, players traverse an expansive urban environment overrun by a vicious outbreak, scavenging the world for supplies and crafting weapons to defend against the growing infected population.