Sentences with phrase «large outbreaks»

As for the last question, typically no — these large outbreaks seem to be limited more often by food supply than predator increases — Jim]

It evolved millions of years ago to exploit an ecological niche, and it has caused large outbreaks of destruction in the past — but, so far as we know, none as large as this one.

In between there were large outbreaks in 1957, the Asian Flu (H2N2 virus — 1.5 - 2 million deaths), and in 1968, the Hong Kong Flu, from the H3N1 virus strain, which killed approximately one million people.

Canine influenza has been in the Chicago land area for over a year now and although we are not seeing large outbreaks, clinics are seeing isolated cases of 1 - 2 pets here and there.

Leishmania tropica , a unicellular eukaryotic parasite present in North and East Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent, has been linked to large outbreaks of cutaneous leishmaniasis in displaced populations in Iraq, Jordan, and Syria.

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.

«And when we get a storm system moving through, interacting with high temperatures and moisture, it creates instability in the atmosphere and that favors these large outbreaks,» Crouch told OurAmazingPlanet.

This allowed the researchers to uncover that different strains of Vibrio cholerae can be assigned different risks for causing large outbreaks.

Bodies are not getting buried fast enough to meet demand and quickly scaling up the needed response to keep individual cases from becoming large outbreaks continues to be a struggle.

«Ultimately, we want to develop vaccination strategies that could both prevent large outbreaks and lower the number of animals requiring vaccination,» Rushmore said.

And compared to other large outbreaks, the city's health department appears to have performed as well as its counterparts.

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

On its own, the immune system boasts different molecules that detect harmful intruders, eradicate small infections and work to contain larger outbreaks.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. attacked Bassett for not enlisting the federal government's assistance in combating what the administration has called the largest outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in the city's history — a contagion that has so far only spread within the confines of the South Bronx.

From April to September 2007, the largest outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever since 2003 unfolded in the Kasaï Occidental province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The largest outbreak on record for the filovirus family was caused by Ebola virus in West Africa between 2013 and 2016, resulting in more than 28,000 infections and more than 11,000 deaths.

Ebola virus causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates with high mortality rates and continues to emerge in new geographic locations, including West Africa, the site of the largest outbreak to date.

If a large outbreak occurred, health professionals would have few options to treat the infected.

In central British Columbia, the insects have destroyed more than 14 million hectares of trees — an area the size of Connecticut — in the single largest outbreak the world has ever seen.

Zika is not new to the U.S. Even as early as 2007, when the mosquito - borne disease had its first large outbreak in the Pacific island nation of Micronesia, the virus directly touched the U.S. — sickening one American traveler.

«Currently, there is no efficient countermeasure for this toxin in case of a large outbreak of botulism,» Jin said.

Researchers examined one of the largest outbreaks of the emerging drug - resistant fungal pathogen C. auris to date.

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

The largest outbreak in history — the 2013 - 16 Western African epidemic — caused more than 11,000 deaths and infected more than 29,000 people.

I didn't see the kind of rapid response team that's needed to stop a single cluster from becoming a large outbreak.»

«Beetles can only reproduce in an individual tree once, so they take advantage of this patch of trees and that patch of trees as they become available, but when the number and size of trees vary a lot, it's hard for a large outbreak to develop.»

The first large outbreak — in 2007 on Yap Island in Micronesia — infected 70 percent of the island's population but was only identified because scientists had been deployed there on the assumption the isle was under siege by dengue.

This is the largest outbreak.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak in 2014 - 15 a public health emergency of international concern and it is the largest outbreak to date.

At the moment, the virus is not readily transmissible, but a large outbreak gives it more chances to evolve to spread more easily between humans.

The model ran several different scenarios to determine the impact level ranging from smaller outbreaks that may incur few costs (i.e., no lawsuits and legal fees or fines) to larger outbreaks that incur a high amount of lawsuits and legal fees.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak in 2014 - 15 a public health emergency of international concerns and it is the largest outbreak to date.

In 2007, the outbreak in Yap (Micronesia) became the largest outbreak of ZIKV ever reported [21].

London is known as the TB capital of Europe, and St. Paul, Minnesota recently experienced the largest outbreak of multi-drug resistant TB the US has ever seen.

A 2015 outbreak in the Republic of Korea is the largest outbreak outside of the Middle East.

We recently detected a large outbreak of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis phage type 14b affecting more than 30 patients in our hospital.

FACT: A large outbreak of Ebola is now occurring in the West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

The largest outbreak occurred in 1994, when a batch of pasteurized ice cream premix was transported in a Salmonella - contaminated truck, and then used to make ice cream without re-pasteurizing.

A total of 1,547 cruisers experienced symptoms associated with norovirus, and the largest outbreak occurred aboard the Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas.

Isaza recalls a large outbreak of hemorrhagic calicivirus about 10 years ago where the sentinel cat was a kitten that came from a shelter and was housed in a small animal practice.

Most recently, in March of this year, a large outbreak of the flu was reported in Chicago.

Mild cases are common in adolescent dogs, but if there seems to be a large outbreak or bleeding then it may be cause for concern.

Currently, there has been a large outbreak in the Chicago area.

Small infestations are described as localized mange, while larger outbreaks are called generalized mange.

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).

... California is in the middle of the largest outbreak of measles since the disease was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000.

In response to the largest outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in recent history, the New York City Council recently passed legislation that requires building owners to conduct quarterly inspections of cooling towers, which have been indicated as t...

In response to the largest outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in recent history, the New York City Council recently passed legislation that requires building owners to conduct quarterly inspections of cooling towers...

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In pilot projects, African farmers solved disease outbreaks after searching the Web, while in Bangladesh «online schools» bring teachers from Dhaka to children in remote classrooms through large screens and video conferencing.

«I shouldered the SARS outbreak plus some other large crises.