Sentences with phrase «large outbreaks of»

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.

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.

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.

«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

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.

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.

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.

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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The tourism / leisure and manufacturing / food industries saw the largest increases in the number of warnings, reflecting the outbreak of SARS in Asia, the Iraq war and weak global economy.

These shortages have coincided with some of the largest yellow fever outbreaks in half a century.

The outbreak of the eurozone crisis has led to a large increase in news coverage, but in a mostly biased way where the national viewpoint has become even more extreme.

These minorities have, however, in general become very much larger in the years since the outbreak of the War of 1914 - 1918.

Dr Ackland said the listeria outbreak was the largest Australia had seen and one of the most complex.

South Africa identifies source of world's largest listeria outbreak after pre-school children fall ill from eating «polony» products traced to processed meat producers.

Because modern disposables absorb large amounts of moisture — a key ingredient in most diaper rashes — diaper rash outbreaks tend to be less common and less severe, she says.

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

A salmonella outbreak associated with eggs prompted one of the largest egg recalls in recent years Saturday, more than 206 million eggs sold under nine different brands in nine states.

Perhaps more importantly, the outbreak of war in former Yugoslavia, and what was widely regarded as the EU's confused, divided and often impotent response to it, not only illustrated the weakness of the EU's political present, but also indicated that regional conflicts had replaced large - scale territorial war as the principal security threat.

More than 2.5 million people have left Syria since the outbreak of the civil war — the largest movement of people since the Second World War.

Cuomo says these outbreaks and closures devastate tourism, a large part of New York's economy.

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.

Delaware County Public Health is holding a «Medical Countermeasures» drill today to practice and test the ability to dispense large amounts of medicine in the event of a public health threat such as a disease outbreak or bioterrorism threat to the community.

The South Korea outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS, is the largest yet seen outside the Middle East.

A pandemic is an epidemic (an outbreak of an infectious disease) that spreads worldwide, or at least across a large region.

«Zimbabwe may have been predisposed to this TB outbreak due to the presence of a large HIV - positive population who were particularly vulnerable to the effects of food shortages which led to malnutrition and further damage to already weakened immune systems,» said Silverman.

The team, who published their findings in the journal Science, predict the next large - scale epidemic is unlikely to emerge for at least another ten years — although there is a possibility of smaller outbreaks in this time.

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

«A large urban outbreak of yellow fever virus in a tropical megacity is a terrifying prospect,» said Ebel.

The largest U.S. impacts of tornadoes result from tornado outbreaks, sequences of tornadoes that occur in close succession.

While no significant trends have been found in either the annual number of reliably reported tornadoes or of outbreaks, recent studies indicate increased variability in large normalized economic and insured losses from U.S. thunderstorms, increases in the annual number of days on which many tornadoes occur, and increases in the annual mean and variance of the number of tornadoes per outbreak.

This would allow the facilitation of early interventions in emerging yellow fever outbreaks — which is key to prevent large scale outbreaks.»

When the outbreak first came to international attention, authorities thought it was one of the largest ever, with approximately 400 suspected cases and more than 170 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.

Last spring a research team led by Michael Tippett, associate professor of applied physics and applied mathematics at Columbia Engineering, published a study showing that the average number of tornadoes during outbreaks — large - scale weather events that can last one to three days and span huge regions — has risen since 1954.

In the study, a tipping point represented the point at which vaccine coverage declines dramatically due to spreading fear, which could cause large disease outbreaks due to a loss of population immunity.

2007: First large Zika outbreak in humans, on the Pacific island of Yap in Micronesia.

His explanation for this delay in the outbreak of the disorder is that large parts of the heparan sulfate molecule can be degraded without arylsulfatase G. «Hence, it takes more time to accumulate.»

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

Previous EVD outbreaks were confined to remote regions of central Africa; the largest, in 1976, had 318 cases (2)(Fig. 1A).

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.