Sentences with phrase «new outbreaks of disease»

Many of the major new outbreaks of disease, particularly in Africa, are so - called zoonotic infections, diseases that are transmitted to humans from animals.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

The race concept has been criticized for being an imperfect measure of pathogenic diversity, but it is still considered useful to describe host reaction and new disease outbreaks [1].

Outbreak of diseases and the consequent feeling of insecurity made many accept the new religion.

A NATION - WIDE outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) could strip more than $ 50 billion from Australia's livestock industry over 10 years, according to a new costing model from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES).

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed legislation aimed at preventing future outbreaks of Legionnaires» Disease.

The mayor's initiative, known as «New York City Safe» and funded with $ 22 million, comes as the administration is working to contain an outbreak of Legionnaires» Disease in the Bronx.

In an effort to convey cooperation and unity, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Dr. Bassett and New York State Commissioner of Health Dr. Zucker issued an update on the outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the Bronx.

In New York City, the five cooling towers suspected of causing the outbreak were cleaned by July 29, before the disease had even peaked, and once that was completed, the number of new cases began to decliNew York City, the five cooling towers suspected of causing the outbreak were cleaned by July 29, before the disease had even peaked, and once that was completed, the number of new cases began to declinew cases began to decline.

SOUTH BRONX — The death toll in the worst outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in New York City history has risen to 12, and the number of people infected has gone up to 113, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced at a press conference Monday afternoon.

At a press conference on Saturday, the mayor tried to reassure New Yorkers that the worst of the outbreak was over, saying that the disease had been contained.

As the South Bronx reels in what the city is calling the worst outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in New York history, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration today announced that state and federal agencies were getting involved in the fight — which up until now has been in the hands of Mayor Bill de Blasio and Health Commissioner Mary Bassett.

A day after Gov. Andrew Cuomo rolled out new statewide rules for the cooling towers that spawned the deadly outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the Bronx, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed off on the city's portion of the «joint» regulations on the potentially infectious air conditioning units — declaring it a «huge undertaking» because no such controls ever existed before.

Following the worst outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in New York City history, the City Council passed a bill this afternoon that will require all cooling towers to be registered with the Department of Buildings.

LEGIONNAIRES» FALLOUT: Monday morning at City Hall, Mayor Bill de Blasio will hold a bill - signing ceremony, beginning at 10 a.m. (full details below), and then, around noon, «the Mayor, Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and elected officials will host a press conference to introduce new legislation to reduce future risk of Legionnaires» disease, and provide an update on the containment of the outbreak,» according to the mayor's public schedule.

The serendipitous pursuit of a rapid outbreak of virulent tuberculosis shows how the disease can be stopped in its tracks, according to a report in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine.

Spending on cholera goes mostly to contain outbreaks in new places, leaving hotspots as continued sources of disease.

A new expert guidance document for hospitals to use in preparing for and containing outbreaks was published by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, with the support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

They're creating powerful new software that can predict, simulate and analyze a major disease outbreak — all in the form of an intuitive, multiplayer game.

Even Tea Partiers, though, may have become a bit complacent because of movies like Outbreak that show how an antiserum for any new disease can be synthesized in a matter of hours with no specialized knowledge by Cuba Gooding Jr..

Certain disease outbreaks, including some of the worst pandemics of the 20th century, are linked to weather patterns in the Pacific Ocean, according to new research.

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.

Wencui Han of the Department of Management Science and Systems at the University at Buffalo, New York and colleagues, explain how in the last two decades criminal incidents such as shootings on campus, assaults and robberies, natural disasters including tornadoes, hurricanes and snow storms and disease outbreaks have put students and staff at risk.

Aside from inflicting devastating natural disasters on often vulnerable communities, climate change can also spur outbreaks of infectious diseases like Zika, malaria and dengue fever, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

While tropical temperatures appear to contribute, historical outbreaks of yellow fever and dengue in the United States as far north as New England show that mosquitos can indeed carry and transmit disease in more temperate climates during summer months.

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.

The outbreak in West Africa threatens the momentum of the polio eradication campaign, which cut the number of new polio cases worldwide from an estimated 350,000 in 1988 to only 784 in 2003 and wiped out the disease in the Americas, the Western Pacific region, and Europe.

«This nanoformulation approach allows us to make vaccines against new diseases in only seven days, allowing the potential to deal with sudden outbreaks or make rapid modifications and improvements,» says Daniel Anderson, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Chemical Engineering and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).

MIT engineers have developed a new type of easily customizable vaccine that can be manufactured in one week, allowing it to be rapidly deployed in response to disease outbreaks.

A new type of easily customizable vaccine can be manufactured in one week, allowing it to be rapidly deployed in response to disease outbreaks, say researchers.

A new study suggests that an aggressive reef competitor — the Threespot Damselfish — may have impeded the recovery of Caribbean long - spined sea urchin populations after a mysterious disease outbreak caused a massive die - off of these animals over three decades ago.

Potential outbreaks of diseases such as Ebola and Lassa fever may be more accurately predicted thanks to a new mathematical model developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.

Although this is not the first major health crisis that HealthMap has covered — the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic was one of its largest efforts — the Ebola outbreak has pushed the site in new directions in an effort to provide information for a variety of institutions, including the WHO, the United Nations and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The health facts presented by mass media in the midst of a disease outbreak are likely to influence what we remember about the disease — new research suggests that the same mass media coverage may also influence the facts that we forget.

These new regulations required for the first time that WHO member countries report disease outbreaks that might cross their borders and also stipulated that they provide WHO with scientific rationales if they independently take actions that impede traffic or trade, like restricting travel or banning the importation of pigs.

At the same time, the new outbreak puts public fears of bioterrorism and ballooning biodefense budgets into perspective by reasserting the impact of naturally occurring diseases, says Marjorie Pollack, who is monitoring the outbreak for ProMED, a worldwide electronic reporting system.

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.

Polio is back and close to home — this time in the Netherlands, where a new outbreak has killed one baby and caused at least 22 cases of the disease.

The first outbreak in Britain of the bee disease varroasis, now taking a hold in southwest England, has prompted the government to waive its lengthy vetting arrangements for the licensing of new agrochemicals.

A cluster of neurological disease in New England recalls an outbreak of paralysis in Guam.

The study, published online Aug. 17 in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, describes a new method for tracking the geographic range of this airborne insect pathogenic fungus from areas of a disease outbreak.

A new service from the web giant warns of flu outbreaks as related searches increase in frequency - it could one day warn of new infectious diseases

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.

Speaking from temporary offices in Amman, Jordan, he told New Scientist: «In a city with a six million population we are afraid not only of the direct impact in terms of wounded and dead, but also other aspects of public health like outbreaks of disease.»

Genomic data about individuals and groups might be consulted during disease outbreaks, in planning for public health programs, or in developing new or assessing existing public health policies; for instance, where are the hotspots for infection (and are these associated with specific pathogen or host genomics), where should vaccines be deployed most urgently, which therapies should be offered to which genomic populations, and where should treatment programs, isolation policies or public health control programs be implemented to halt the spread of infections?

Close disease surveillance and targeted use of anti-viral drugs could be enough to keep a small outbreak of avian flu from becoming the first influenza pandemic in 36 years, according to a new...

(15 Nov 2012, University of Oxford): A new study has demonstrated how DNA sequencing techniques can map tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks, allowing the spread of disease to be tackled more quickly and effectively.

Joseph Rosen, a professor of surgery at Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine and adjunct professor of engineering at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, describes the new approach to vaccine development as «revolutionary,» because it could dramatically reduce the amount of time needed to respond to disease outbreak.

COMPARE is a large EU project with the intention to speed up the detection of and response to disease outbreaks among humans and animals worldwide through the use of new genome technology.

tomato collected during a recent outbreak of bacterial speck disease in New York.