Sentences with phrase «largest outbreak»

The virus regular cause large outbreaks with hundreds of thousands of infected animals and people.

Health officials are closely watching these areas for larger outbreaks, she said.

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

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.

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.

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

It may be the single largest outbreak ever recorded in November.

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.

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.

It may be the single largest outbreak ever recorded in November.

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

«Common insurance risk management tools like reinsurance and catastrophe bonds are often structured around storm outbreaks rather than individual tornadoes, so an increasing concentration of tornadoes into larger outbreaks provides a mechanism to change loss potential without necessarily altering the underlying tornado count.

However, some people develop serious or life - threatening illness and large outbreaks lead millions to seek care, severely straining health care infrastructure in endemic countries.

James Cherry at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center says this looks set to be a particularly large outbreak, but it is not totally unexpected.

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.

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

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.

David Magrath, chief of the WHO's Biologicals Unit, which monitors world vaccine supply, is almost certain there is insufficient vaccine available internationally to deal with large outbreaks in major urban areas.

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

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

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.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. today attacked Dr. Mary Bassett, Mayor Bill de Blasio's Health Commissioner, 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.

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.

Prior to this outbreak the largest outbreak that we've ever had was 425 cases in the northern area of Uganda in 2000 and 2001.

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.

«This finding, in conjunction with forecasted data, could highlight areas of increased transmission and provide insights into the occurrence of large outbreaks, such as those seen in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Brazil,» the researchers say.

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 its largest outbreak, Ebola virus disease is spreading through Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria.

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

«It's not unusual to have a large outbreak of an enterovirus and then you don't see it for several years.»

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

«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.

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

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.»

This is the largest outbreak.

In case of a large outbreak in Eastern Yemen results indicate a 30 % chance for transmission to occur.

Daniel Bausch: Prior to this outbreak the largest outbreak that we've ever had before was 425 cases in the northern area of Uganda in 2000 and 2001.

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.

And so this is happening, the large outbreak, in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia — this is happening in some of the poorest countries in the world, countries that have been through years of civil unrest and civil war that's decimated the public health infrastructure, decimated the medical system.

(B) Spore transmission frequencies along principal migration routes in the Rift Valley zone for the scenario of large outbreaks.

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.

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 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.