Sentences with phrase «new outbreak of the virus»

In fact, on 11 May, the DRC's Ministry of Health notified the World Health Organization of a new outbreak of the virus in that country, with 37 suspected cases in seven villages so far, and several deaths.

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But this outbreak demonstrates clearly both the threat that emerging viruses pose to the world and the need to have some sort of antiviral agent that we can use to try to treat any new viral illness.

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And a new study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization warned that this is a recipe for more outbreaks — even in the southern US, where the virus is not endemic but where mosquitoes that can carry the virus live.

The topic of preventing the Ebola virus in New York State became part of the Governor's race, when the Republican candidate proposed that flights be banned from countries with Ebola outbreaks.

KINSHASA (Reuters)- A person in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who died of a hemorrhagic fever has tested positive for the Ebola virus, signaling the start of a new outbreak, the DRC Health Ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

New York State Director of Operations Jim Malatras in front of a map showing potential areas for a Zika virus outbreak.

A Defra briefing today confirmed no new cases of the virus have been found, despite concerns of a third outbreak at a farm near Guildford.

The new study tests the effects of four other viruses: the two flaviviruses and two alphaviruses, chikungunya and Mayaro, which also have led to outbreaks in Zika - affected areas.

The emergence of the new H1N1 flu strain has demonstrated the effectiveness of existing systems to watch for human flu outbreaks while also proving a long - standing theory that pigs could serve as mixing vessels for a pandemic virus.

«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.»

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.

With redoubled efforts and improved access to insecure areas, national and global officials are optimistic they can quash the new outbreak quickly and still meet the goal of stopping worldwide transmission of the virus in 2016.

Furthermore, new antiviral drugs are required for rapid treatment of acute infections by viruses like Marburg and Ebola viruses during acute viral outbreaks.

The classic trick of herpes viruses is their ability to lay dormant in the body, undetected by the immune system, just waiting for the perfect opportunity to cause a new outbreak of cold sores, shingles, or mononucleosis.

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.

For the new study, researchers in Diamond's laboratory, led by first author Helen Lazear, PhD, now at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tested five strains of the Zika virus in the mice: the original strain acquired from Uganda in 1947; three strains that circulated in Senegal in the 1980s; and the French Polynesian strain, which caused infections in 2013 and is nearly identical to the strain causing the current outbreak.

The discovery has significant implications for our ability to control the global outbreak of new and re-emerging infections such as the Ebola and Zika viruses.

Scientists have completed work on a «hit list» of suspect animals which might be the natural reservoir of the deadly Ebola virus, just as a new outbreak is flaring up in Congo.

«Given development times and manufacturing requirements for new products, repurposing of existing drugs is likely the only solution for outbreaks due to emerging viruses,» the investigators noted in the paper now online in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

The mosquito - borne virus chikungunya may lead to severe brain infection and even death in infants and people over 65, according to a new study that reviewed a chikungunya outbreak on Reunion Island off the coast of Madagascar in 2005 - 2006.

In the past two years, genetic sequence information of the flu - virus protein hemagglutinin from only two influenza strains from India has been deposited into publicly available influenza databases, making it difficult to determine exactly which strain is causing the new outbreak, and how it differs from previous strains.

Many countries across Africa and Asia - Pacific may be vulnerable to Zika virus outbreaks, with India, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Bangladesh expected to be at greatest risk of Zika virus transmission due to a combination of high travel volumes from Zika affected areas in the Americas, local presence of mosquitos capable of transmitting Zika virus, suitable climatic conditions, large populations and / or limited health resources, according to a new modelling study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

7 In 1992 scientists tracking a pneumonia outbreak in England found a massive new kind of virus lurking within an amoeba inside a cooling tower.

Fifteen months after the 1999 outbreak of West Nile virus in New York City, which sickened 62 mostly elderly people and killed seven, scientists are still hard pressed to predict how abundant the virus will eventually become or how serious a public health threat it will pose.

Now, using mathematical techniques created for studying fluctuating fish populations, a team of researchers has shown that both temperature and humidity influence the timing of flu outbreaks all over the world — a finding that could lead to new ways to fight the virus.

The United States has sufficient capacity for treating another outbreak of the Ebola virus, but financial, staffing and resource challenges remain a hurdle for many hospitals and health systems attempting to maintain dedicated treatment centers for highly infectious diseases, according to new study released today.

Undiagnosed Ebola virus infection was probably very rare in international workers who were deployed during the 2013 - 2015 outbreak of the virus in West Africa, despite mild and asymptomatic cases of Ebola being known to occur, according to new research published in the journal PLOS Medicine.

The research branch of the U.S. Department of Defense wants to know when and where the next outbreak of the mosquito - borne chikungunya virus will occur, and it's offering $ 150,000 for the best new approach.

In contrast to some initial studies that had suggested that H7N9 poses an imminent risk of a global pandemic, the new research found, based on analyses of virus samples from the Chinese outbreak, that H7N9 is still mainly adapted for infecting birds, not humans.

The screening procedure — used in the U.S. to model and study virus replication — allows for continuing evaluation of new antivirals or anti-Ebola drugs, since there is a likelihood of future Ebola outbreaks.

In the first excerpt from his 2012 memoir No Time to Lose, Piot recalled identifying a new virus behind a deadly outbreak in Zaire in 1976 — the debut of Ebola virus.

Endemic regions are at increased risk of epidemic outbreaks when new variants of the virus emerge and infect people who have never been exposed to that particular strain of the virus.

In 2003, DNA sequencing at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre in Toronto and at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta showed that the virus causing an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in China was a new variant of coronavirus.

We used the Virochip, a microarray designed to detect all viruses, to identify a new species of adenovirus (TMAdV, or titi monkey adenovirus) that caused a deadly outbreak in a colony of New World titi monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC), and also infected a human researchnew species of adenovirus (TMAdV, or titi monkey adenovirus) that caused a deadly outbreak in a colony of New World titi monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC), and also infected a human researchNew World titi monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC), and also infected a human researcher.

Their findings revealed a number of critical facts as the outbreak was unfolding, including that the virus was being transmitted only by person - to - person contact and that it was picking up new mutations through its many transmissions.

Following a deadly 2007 outbreak of a new strain of Ebola virus in the Bundibugyo region of Uganda, MUWRP developed a strong interest in creating a vaccine that cut across subtypes of the virus.

Tom Clancy's The Division is an online, multiplayer action game set in the aftermath of a virus outbreak in New York.

Subsequent testing, carried out with the New York State Animal Diagnostic Laboratory at Cornell University and the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, identified the outbreak as being caused by a virus closely related to an Asian strain of canine influenza virus A.

The latest outbreak is in New York, where some boarding kennels have been forced to close temporarily to contain the spread of the virus.

Outbreaks of parvovirus among dogs in Massachusetts, Indiana, Illinois, and New Jersey have animal shelters and owners scrambling to help sick dogs and prevent further spread of the virus.

During the past few years there have been outbreaks of a severe new flu virus in dogs called Canine Influenza Virus (virus in dogs called Canine Influenza Virus (Virus (CIV).

Thanks to Oscorp and some accidental help from Spider - Man, there's an outbreak of of animal men and a cross-species virus that's transforming the residents of New York into strange creatures.

The new law comes as Florida deals with its first outbreak of locally transmitted Zika virus, with 15 people infected in North Miami.