Sentences with phrase «of airborne diseases»

Through partnerships with Partners in Health, the Clinton Foundation and the Government of Rwanda, Murphy helped lead the design on Butaro Hospital in Rwanda, assisting with breakthrough architectural solutions to mitigate and reduce the transmission of airborne diseases like Tuberculosis.

Years ago, when Mass Design was in the early stages of planning and designing Butaro Hospital in the Burera District of Rwanda, it faced a serious design challenge: To reduce the transmission of airborne diseases like TB.

Despite our strict vaccination and quarantine protocol, we always worried about the transfer of airborne disease between dogs on our transports.

Not exact matches

As the number of people sickened in an outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the South Bronx climbed to 71 yesterday, health officials were still piecing together where the illness, a form of pneumonia spread through airborne water droplets, might have originated.

«Our results, and methods, could have implications for the analysis of endogenous and exogeneous compounds in the exhaled breath as biomarkers of systemic and lung diseases, as well as in development of new approaches to study human exposure to airborne contamination.»

A protein found in some animals could lead to a new class of biosensors for detecting environmental contamination or airborne disease

Ex-prisoners, often with improperly treated TB that had mutated into the multidrug resistant form of the disease, moved back into cramped apartment blocs where, during the long, cold Siberian winters, hallways and unventilated apartments provided ideal conditions for airborne transmission to unwary neighbors, friends and family members.

«Despite the delay in airborne precaution implementation, we suspect that high hand hygiene compliance, as a result of continuous implementation of proactive control measures against various viruses and multidrug - resistant organisms, protected frontline healthcare workers against many challenges of emerging infectious diseases.»

The results suggest that bacteria can travel far from their plant hosts while maintaining the ability to make ice; they also hint at how airborne bacteria could play a role in the spread of plant disease.

However, the modelling work also offers some encouraging news: the airborne transmission of the disease from East African countries directly to South Asia is highly unlikely, with transmission events possible only on less than one day a year.

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.

Human interactions with indoor airborne microbes have been investigated for more than a century (Tyndall, 1881; Carnelley, Haldane & Anderson, 1887; Tyndall, 1876), although almost exclusively from the perspective of disease and airborne - transmission of pathogens (Noble et al., 1976; Sherertz, Bassetti & Bassetti - Wyss, 2001; Tang et al., 2011).

Tuberculosis is an airborne infectious disease that has existed for centuries, with evidence of the disease found in ancient Egyptian mummies.

Come learn how drones are being used to detect environmental hazards such as gas leaks and airborne disease microbes, how planes equipped with sensors can tell us about ecological change and how DIY sensors placed in homes by journalists generate data and stories about the impact of heat waves.

There's no doubt about that anymore, not after Sandler's appearance in «Funny People» — a searing dramedy about a sell - out comedy star reckoning with his selfish and unsatisfied existence — only precipitated a series of bold new lows that began with «Jack and Jill,» led to «Pixels,» and culminated with a lucrative Netflix deal that made his diseased brand airborne.

In upstate New York, at the Cornell University Hospital for Animals, for example, the most common causes of skin disease in cats seen by dermatology specialists are allergies to airborne particles, food, or flea and mosquito bites.

Dr. Frucht provides comprehensive puppy and kitten care in the safety of your home, bypassing risky hospital visits that can expose your puppy or kitten's vulnerable immune system to airborne diseases.

Canine Influenza is an airborne virus similar to the symptoms of other canine respiratory diseases including coughing, sneezing, nasal discharge and run a fever.

This allows for meeting the air quality needs of pets in different hospital areas, improvement of air quality in the entire hospital and minimizing the airborne spread of contagious disease.

Due to the airborne nature of this disease, neighboring dogs boarded at Stone Mountain Pet Lodge are susceptible to the disease.

Other possible job hazards include exposure to corrosive chemicals and cleaning agents, exposure to feral and vicious animals, to animals with an unknown health history and therefore, exposure to zoonotic diseases through the use of hypodermic needles, animal bites and scratches, airborne transmission, and physical contact.

The highly contagious, airborne virus meant that, to prevent the spread of the disease as well as for humane reasons, RAPS was obligated to euthanize the rabbits in our care.

Kennel cough (tracheobronchitis) is an airborne disease that affects dogs of any age.

They are not aerosolized (airborne) like many of the agents that cause disease in dogs or people.

Since then, alas, the legions of depressed climatologists have multiplied exponentially, leading some virologists to speculate whether the disease is now airborne and you can catch it just from reading a Michael E Mann #KochMachineDenier Tweet.

More than half of India's population lives in areas where the average concentration of small airborne particles, known as PM 2.5, are much higher than considered safe, causing increased rates of lung and heart disease.

I possess a thorough understanding of hospital and medical safety practices with a particular focus on airborne diseases.