Sentences with phrase «many endemic diseases»

The Bishop of London recently claimed that the endemic disease of modern Britain was BSE (Blame Someone Else).

Also hindering the response to the disease: symptoms of other endemic diseases in the region like malaria and typhoid may initially appear similar to Ebola.

Some breeders are now turning to native grasses in the hopes that they will have better defenses against endemic diseases and thus may re-quire smaller amounts of pesticide.

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Price extolled the health of those groups who were healthy, and described the high rates of infant mortality, endemic diseases and malnutrition in the groups that were not healthy.

While extolling their health, he ignored their short life expectancy and high rates of infant mortality, endemic diseases, and malnutrition.

The minimum elements a Primary Health Care programme should contain, according to Alma Ata, are: «Education concerning prevailing health problems and the methods of preventing and controlling them; promotion of food supply and proper nutrition; an adequate supply of safe water and basic sanitation; maternal and child health care, including family planning; immunization against the major infectious diseases; prevention and control of locally endemic diseases; appropriate treatment of common diseases and injuries; and provision of essential drugs».

It was not an epidemic but an endemic disease; it didn't come in waves or explode through a population, its presence was constant, pervasive, and persistent.

Since then, it has been considered an endemic disease in the area, and has once again forced The Anti-Cruelty Society to close for dog adoptions for the next 3 - 4 weeks.

«The profession's commitment to the role of the veterinary surgeon as a public guardian across all species enables the continual monitoring for endemic disease and by recognising the unusual, helps to identify new and emerging threats that need further investigation.

Health Belize is relatively free of endemic diseases.

Nowhere in this list are the known causes of major threats to human life of income disparity, endemic disease, resource depletion, or radical climate change.

We really need to apologise for the acronym soup though — it is an endemic disease in satellite discussions.

«The authors analyzed malaria statistics that were collected in Finland from 1750 to 2008 via correlation analyses between malaria frequency per million people and all variables that have been used in similar studies throughout other parts of Europe,» including temperature data, animal husbandry, consolidation of land by redistribution and household size... report that «malaria was a common endemic disease in Finland in the 18th and 19th centuries and prevalent in the whole country,» and they say that «mortality during malaria epidemics usually varied between 0.85 and 3 %.»

Overall economic conditions, endemic diseases, public health and sanitation standards, quality and capacity of medical facilities and different cultural attitudes toward personal health and safety are all factors that vary from one country to another.

Study the characteristics and distributions of endemic diseases in China and their prevention

Not exact matches

Sub-Saharan Africa, a region of endemic poverty, has 11 % of the world's population, 24 % of the world's burden of disease, and less than 5 % of its health workforce, said Gottlieb.

«There's a real desire coming out of the United States government, the UK government and others to see endemic domestic countries contribute more of their own capital towards fighting these diseases,» said Chambers.

The disease exists in every industry, but Rory says it's epidemic and endemic in restaurants — owners terminally inflicted with the belief that they must be the one making the sauce, greeting the guests at the door, doing the inventory.

Disease becomes endemic and epidemic in the form of AIDS; one can join all - out efforts to rid the world of AIDS.

Individuals who carry sickle cell trait (the unexpressed mutation of sickle cell anemia) are more likely to survive malaria and therefore, the trait is actually protective against a disease that is endemic in many parts of the world.

The dangers of this must be emphasised because of the widespread use of feeding bottles in many developing countries where diarrhoeal diseases are endemic.

The event is to recognize and honour companies that have demonstrated a strong commitment to reducing the disease through innovative and sustainable programmes and have continually taken steps to demonstrate that malaria prevention is an important element of economic development, for malaria - endemic countries.

Southern states aren't generally considered endemic for Lyme because Lyme and STARI are not usually reported; Lyme disease isn't usually reported because the states aren't considered endemic.

They cite plenty of evidence: In the Northeast, where Lyme is endemic, the disease is spread by nymphs (the tick's juvenile form) of Ixodes scapularis, commonly known as blacklegged ticks.

To track down the disease, Krause tested blood from people living in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, areas endemic for tick - borne disease.

Many disease endemic countries (e.g. Brazil, China, and Thailand, etc.) now have sustainable tropical - disease research programmes.

This highlights another problem: big pharma tends to be less interested in developing vaccines for diseases endemic to developing countries.

Given enough vaccine exemptions and localized outbreaks, it is possible that largely vanquished diseases could become endemic again.

This candidate vaccine has the potential to have a significant impact on public health in view of the high disease burden in endemic countries.»

Even among people in close contact with lepers, only a fraction seems to contract the disease, even in endemic areas.

It's quite likely that ticks infected with Lyme disease spirochetes are present in other parks in Lyme disease endemic areas, too.»

Although some regions such as Western Europe are free from rabies, the disease is still endemic in many parts of the world.

He thinks that, like HIV, the disease was at some point in the past endemic to a circumscribed population.

The disease is endemic in Dhaka, which has 7 million densely packed residents and 12 million in its metropolitan area, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.

Surveillance in these endemic regions is crucial to controlling the disease and reducing the risk of re-introduction into rabies - free areas.

The true test will come in places like Vietnam, Brazil, and Thailand, where the disease is endemic.

In nine of the 70 Nubian mummies — taken from graves stretching as far back as A.D. 550 — mitochondrial DNA of the parasite was discovered, proving the disease was endemic at least that far back.

That means the decoy males, when released in disease - endemic areas, will have to know how to behave.

Since the push to eliminate the disease began in the late 1980s, the number of countries where polio is endemic has fallen from more than 125 to just 3: Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

If a foreign disease (one that's not endemic to the U.S., such as foot - and - mouth disease) is detected, the saliva sample in question is helicoptered to Plum Island for analysis, where one person has permission to receive it.

New weather conditions brought on by climate change may help spread a fungal disease endemic to the Southwest known as valley fever

«Given the wide variation in the transmission of the disease — endemic areas, areas of low endemicity, hyperendemic areas, and sometimes these strata all occurring in the same country — we prefer to look at each country separately without aggregates over the entire continent,» Buj says.

The effect of seasonality in pathogen transmission on vaccination strategies was investigated under several types of disease scenarios, including an endemic case and a new outbreak case.

So although it's an important weapon in endemic areas, the vaccine is risky in countries that are currently disease free.

And because the rat vector lives across a broad swath of the continent, the disease might also be endemic, but unrecognized, outside of West Africa, where it could be responsible for undiagnosed fevers.

A devastating cattle disease endemic in California's foothill country causes pregnant heifers to lose their fetuses in the third trimester, killing an estimated 5 % to 10 % of the state's annual beef calf «crop» — a loss of 45,000 to 90,000 animals.

«I myself grew up in a poor family in Northeast Thailand where the disease is endemic,» he says, «And when I started working with communities in my province, I found that the liver fluke problems still persisted with nearly three - quarters prevalence in certain villages, despite over 30 years of Thai government campaigns against the parasite.»

«The findings from this trial are very encouraging to those of us who have spent many years working on vaccine candidates to protect against dengue, a disease that is a significant burden in much of the world and is now endemic in Puerto Rico,» said Stephen Whitehead, Ph.D., of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

Because diseases can be endemic to specific regions of the world, these genes exist in thousands of versions, known as alleles.