Sentences with phrase «known outbreak of»

A farm chemical with an infamous history — causing the worst known outbreak of pesticide poisoning in North America — is being phased out under an agreement announced Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

-- ZIKA: Florida public health investigators have identified 10 additional Zika cases in the Miami area, bringing the total to 14 in the first known outbreak of the virus to be caused by mosquitoes in the continental U.S., Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Monday.

Not exact matches

The experts aren't shocked by this — particularly bad outbreaks of flu are often trailed by another strain of the illness known as «influenza B» — but it's a bummer for the rest of us who were hoping we were finally out of the woods when it came to flu misery.

Or, if researchers wanted to use Health Kit information to track outbreaks of STDs, they would want to know whether a person had recently traveled to another country, and how many sexual partners they had had in the past three months, Kavaler said.

Chipotle (CMG)-- Another outbreak and now people are taking pix of stores and sending around making fun of the fact that stores no longer have lines.

The world economy has been subject to a series of «one - off» events over recent years, the latest of which has been the outbreak of the respiratory disease known as SARS in mid March.

Given the latest outbreak of the Zika virus this year, we know that in some cases contraceptives are imperative to reduce incidences of birth defects, like microcephaly.

The movable - type printing press, for which Gutenberg is so well known, was invented in about 1450, 70 years before the outbreak of the Reformation.

The source of a salmonella outbreak that prompted a nationwide recall of pre-packaged lettuce from Victoria could be known within days.

Not to get too off topic but depending on the strain most people have it and just never know, and even the «genital» strain (which is a misnomer because you can get either type anywhere), a lot of men who have it never get outbreaks so they genuinely don't know.

One thing that we must all hope for is that the Villa and Blues fans will keep their emotions in check a bit more in this season's matches, as the second City Derby has been known to escalate into some really bloody and nasty affairs with significant outbreaks of fan violence during which fans and members of the police were known to experience serious injuries.

More and more outbreaks of the antibiotic - resistant skin infection or «super bug» known as methicillin - resistant staphylococcus aureus («MRSA») are being reported in schools across the nation.

So far, we know very little about the media in the numerous new democracies around the world except sporadic outbreaks of anger from NGOs specialised in media freedom.

The mayor's initiative, known as «New York City Safe» and funded with $ 22 million, comes as the administration is working to contain an outbreak of Legionnaires» Disease in the Bronx.

Mayor Bloomberg recently had a new issue to handle — an outbreak of the H1N1 flu commonly known as swine flu in New York City.

I know that parents and other schools are getting nervous about the possibility of further outbreak of swine flu in their respective schools.

The Ogun State government Monday confirmed the outbreak of Avian Influenza otherwise known as bird flu in the state.

During the unrest prior to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, feelings ran high in the Mohawk Valley, and there were local attacks by rebels against known Loyalists.

With the outbreak of World War Two, the Army installation then known as Pine Camp expanded, to become Camp Drum and eventually Fort Drum today.

CHICKENPOX COMMON AMONG CHILDREN DESPITE VACCINE The highly contagious varicella - zoster virus (VZV), commonly known as chickenpox, often affects children under age 12 and sometimes even after they have been vaccinated against the disease, Oneida County Health Department officials warned today following reports of an outbreak in Herkimer County.

As part of the study, EcoHealth Alliance's modeling team mapped the geographic distribution of all known bat hosts for these viruses, and found that Guinea and Liberia lie within the expected range of Zaire Ebola — the strain responsible for the current outbreak.

Cholera outbreaks can be contained if medical workers can trace the source of tainted water — but to do that, they need to know where the people who are affected live.

Research published in early 2004 shows that the viruses from all known human cases of the 2003 outbreak seem to descend from the same lineage.

Although Zika's path was documented starting in 2015 through records of human cases, less was known about how the virus spread so silently before detection, or how outbreaks in different parts of Central and South America were connected.

«It was not known whether any of these vaccines could provide protection against the new outbreak West African Makona strain of Ebola Zaire currently circulating in Guinea,» said John Eldridge, Chief Scientific Officer - Vaccines at Profectus Biosciences, Inc. «Our findings show that our candidate vaccines provided complete, single dose protection from a lethal amount of the Makona strain of Ebola virus.»

Consecutive rabies and distemper outbreaks recently cut one of the smallest known wolf populations down to two individuals, Sillero's team reported in December in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Surprisingly, none of the mosquitoes captured for study during the outbreak carried the virus, known as ZIKV among researchers.

It is the largest known EVD outbreak and is expanding exponentially, with a doubling period of 34.8 days (Fig. 1B).

A 2011 outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC), which is resistant to most known antibiotics, at the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center killed 11 patients and infected many others.

«Because the bacterium that causes TB can lie dormant in someone's lung for months or even years before it causes disease, we had no way of knowing whether a TB case we have just diagnosed was a recent infection — suggesting the outbreak is still going on — or whether the person was infected years ago.»

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This mismatch between these numbers and 1880 estimates of at least three billion suggests that the passenger pigeon may have been what is known to ecologists as an «outbreak» species, like locusts, that boom and bust with changes in conditions, rather than a species that experiences a singular population explosion, as Homo sapiens has in the last 200 years.

Researchers found that there were as many as seven times fewer outbreaks of coral killing crown - of - thorns starfish — which can have up to 20 spike - covered arms and grow up to two feet (0.6 meter) in diameter — in so - called «no - take» regions as there were in those where commercial fishing is allowed.

Question: And is this the first known case in the world of the countries that are experiencing outbreak of human swine influenza where you've seen the flu infect a pig?

The largest outbreak of the MERS coronavirus outside the Middle East is no different from previous outbreaks in the way that it spreads

Until its positive identification in 2003, it was known as Bradfordcoccus and falsely suspected as the cause of a 1992 pneumonia outbreak in the West Yorkshire mill town of Bradford, England.

For example, the most advanced therapy — ZMappTM, a cocktail of three monoclonal antibodies — is specific for Ebola virus (formerly known as «Ebola Zaire»), but doesn't work against two related ebolaviruses (Sudan virus and Bundibugyo virus) that have also caused major outbreaks.

Nevertheless, work on those viruses had been supported by the National Institutes of Health and other places, so we knew quite a bit about this family of viruses before the outbreak, which meant we were in a better position to make vaccines that could prevent another outbreak.

The Toronto model is a mathematical approach to tracking the expansion and contraction of outbreaks — known as Incidence Decay and Exponential Adjustment (IDEA)-- that considers factors that might slow epidemic growth.

«Sometimes you can be lucky and work this out, as we did in a previous study, but this was possible because information of outbreaks that were known to be pure human - to - human chains was, unusually, available.

«If you know that most cases of an outbreak of Lassa fever come from spillovers, then the message might be «kill the rats», but if it is now mainly spreading between humans, the messages will be around washing your hands or avoiding contact with bodily fluids.»

Currently six coronaviruses are known to cause disease in people, but so far only two of them — SARS - CoV and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus — have caused large outbreaks of fatal illness in people.

We [now] know there's an outbreak of salmonella,» he says.

«It's pretty hard to know when you have an outbreak of an unknown disease if you don't even have diagnostics to rule out the known diseases,» said Mark Smolinski, director of global health threats at the Skoll Global Threats Fund.

In a paper published in Science in 1994, they concluded that the geographic pattern of the outbreak clearly showed that it was caused by an aerosol that had escaped from a facility known as Military Compound 19.

However, the outbreak in West Africa is caused by a strain of virus from the Zaire species, known as Zaire - Guinea.

Guinea had been nearing the end of a 90 - day period of heightened surveillance when the fresh cases were reported - the country's first known re-emergence of Ebola after the outbreak was officially declared over there at the end of December 2015.

Just from the high number of deaths and severe cases, scientists and public health experts battling Germany's massive E. coli outbreak knew they were up against something unusual.

To say hurricane Katrina was an indication of climate change is no more correct than saying the current cold outbreak is evidence against climate change — I mean, that's weather — but it does influence people.

Researchers and health officials still do not even know whether bat - to - bat transmission, bat - to - human transmission or bat - to - other animal - to - human transmission is responsible for the beginning of the current outbreak.