Sentences with phrase «influenza epidemic»

In 2011, a canine influenza epidemic was heavily covered in the media.

However, soon after their wedding, Henry abruptly quits medical school to create a mail - order patent medicine called Wickett's Remedy, and just as Lydia begins to adjust to her husband's new vocation, the infamous Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 begins its deadly sweep across the world, irrevocably changing their lives.

More died from the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918 - 1919 than were killed in World War I.

The WHO's declaration of a global public health emergency is the third ever made under international regulations enacted in 2007; the first came in 2009 during the H1N1 influenza epidemic and the second in May, warning of the potential for international spread of the polio virus.

This suggests that a greater understanding of the mechanisms that drive inter-pandemic influenza epidemics may increase our capacity to predict the timing of major outbreaks associated with novel pandemic influenza viruses in the future.

Influenza epidemics seriously affect populations worldwide, with an estimated three to five million cases of severe illness and 250,000 to 500,000 deaths, yearly.

«But, premenopausal women on certain kinds of birth control or post-menopausal women on hormone replacement may be better protected during seasonal influenza epidemics,» she says.

Annual influenza epidemics are estimated to result in 3 million to 5 million cases of severe illness and 250,000 to 500,000 deaths yearly worldwide.

An accidental introduction to any of the teeming megacities of the tropics could precipitate disaster at a level we normally associate with influenza epidemics.

«The authors reach the interesting conclusion that it might be possible for vaccines with certain profiles to affect the transmission and evolution of influenza viruses and that, theoretically, universal vaccines could control influenza epidemics while slowing the rate of viral evolution.

A Web quest with six questions regarding WW1 Total Pages - 5 Teaching Duration - 2 hours Influenza epidemic Video guide: educates students about the origins of the Influenza virus is, what a pandemic is and the threat of a future World - wide outbreak.

After losing her parents in the African influenza epidemic of 1919, Rachel is at the mercy of her plotting neighbors, the Pritchards.

I'd wanted to include true events in my story — the emergence of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner at Bellevue Hospital; the worldwide influenza epidemic; the horrors of World War I, and the infamous poisoning of the radium girl dial painters.

Bark in the Park is cancelled because the canine influenza epidemic shows no sign of abating.

He didn't execute another extended body of three - dimensional works until 1928 when he was commissioned to make a memorial for the grave of his close friend the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who died during the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

But somewhere in the decades around the turn of the nineteenth century, spitting in public began to be regarded as socially unacceptable, and after the terrible influenza epidemic of 1918 it generally died out as a social practice.

I had to miss a criminal law careers panel at Berkeley Law today due to the ongoing influenza epidemic known as my home.

«Experience with managing canine influenza epidemics in shelters over the years has shown that the best course of action to stop virus transmission is to temporarily stop movement of dogs in and out of the shelter.

For example, it paid out more than $ 1 million in claims during the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 and 1919, while it was continuing to pay World War l claims at that same time.

Counties across New York are getting extra financial support to battle the influenza epidemic as the number of confirmed flu cases continues to rise.

«We have to find an area where there is a higher probability that an influenza epidemic will take place,» Fiers says.

Second, you will have to find an area where there is a large probability that an influenza epidemic will take place.

The opioid epidemic is something that has quadrupled [overdose deaths] in the U.S. And we are always concerned about an influenza epidemic.

This influenza epidemic started in Hong Kong in mid-April.

Also, influenza epidemics and pandemics are often caused by the introduction of novel viruses for which most people have limited acquired immunity.

Influenza epidemics and pandemics have significant impacts on economies, morbidity and mortality worldwide.

Dr Stephen Buhner mentions in his book the more virulent and deadly viral illnesses such as the 1918 influenza epidemic are so dangerous because of the viral induced «cytokine storm», a severe inflammatory response which overwhelms and kills the patient.

Among the mysterious occurrences are people coming down with serious coughs (we see faux - archival film taken ostensibly in 1918 when people were dying from the influenza epidemic).

What sparked your interest in the influenza epidemic of 1918?

Her novel Wickett's Remedy grew out of her fascination with the 1918 influenza epidemic and explores the nature of human ambition and the frailty of individual and collective memory.

Myla Goldberg is the author of the bestselling Bee Season; an essay collection, Time's Magpie, which explores all her favorite places in Prague, where she lived for a year in the early nineties; and Wickett's Remedy which grew out of her fascination with the 1918 influenza epidemic.

But before she can escape the heartache of seeing him again, the influenza epidemic that is ravaging the world comes to town.

Twelve years later when his wife was carried off in the influenza epidemic they still had no children.

Against the ominous backdrop of the influenza epidemic of 1918, Annie, a new girl at school, is claimed as best friend -LSB-...]

Plague (think of the Black Death, severe as it was the influenza epidemic of 1918 was just a speed bump in comparison)

The H3N2 virus was the main cause of the influenza epidemic seen this past spring.

What's going on in Chicagoland's animal community In the years since it became a problem, the canine influenza epidemic has..

In the years since it became a problem, the canine influenza epidemic has seriously hindered rescue efforts and made it more difficult for rescues to pull animals from Chicago's Animal Care and Control.

Patients are treated at an Army ward in Kansas during the influenza epidemic of 1918.

In the course of influenza epidemics in Germany, recognized clusters are rare, accounting for just 9 percent of cases e.g. in the 2005 season.