Sentences with phrase «of endemic countries»

The target set by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative is to reduce the number of endemic countries to zero by the end of 2013.

Not exact matches

«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 migration «problem» in Italy feeds into many other endemic issues in Italy — as well as highlighting the problem of organized crime, the country's north - south divide.

There is a healthy amount of speculation, but this is endemic to the culture in these countries.

Breastfeeding mothers traveling to malaria - endemic regions should adhere to the standard recommended dosage of antimalarial medications appropriate for the country they are visiting.

The Santa Marta Mountains, with the tallest peaks in the country, are completely cut off from the Andes and therefore have a high density of endemics.

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.

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

This phase 3 trial took place in dengue - endemic areas across five countries in Asia, a region that accounts for over 70 % of the global dengue burden.

Through the first three quarters of 2009, Indonesia failed to report any flu cases at all, even though the Food and Agriculture Organization (a body of the United Nations that monitors avian influenza in birds) has found the infection to be deeply entrenched among fowl in 31 of the country's 33 provinces and endemic in Java, Sumatra, and Bali.

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.

«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.

In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates in countries where HAV is endemic, all children are infected with HAV before the age of 9.

«This may explain why Zika is not passed to the unborn child of every pregnant woman in dengue - endemic countries exposed to virus.»

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.

Plague is endemic in many countries — the United States had 16 cases of bubonic plague in 2015 — but Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Peru are the countries that frequently have serious outbreaks.

There are experts in all countries with endemic plague who monitor the disease, with the help of the World Health Organization and sometimes the CDC.

The virus, the result of a reassortment of four strains of influenza A virus subtype H1N1 (one endemic in humans, one in birds, and two in pigs), has claimed around a hundred lives and been reported in over 50 countries.

Although there is an effective HBV vaccine, only around 50 percent of people in some countries where the disease is endemic are vaccinated.

The «culture of waste» endemic in the use of water in many Middle Eastern countries is the target for Hillel's harshest criticism.

Nigeria is one of three remaining countries, along with Afghanistan and Pakistan, where polio remains endemic.

If India produces 12 straight months of polio - free surveillance data, it will be removed from the list of countries where polio is considered endemic, leaving only the other three.

The researchers hope to conduct further studies to examine which factors are the drivers behind the patterns of malaria spread between endemic and non-endemic countries.

The results of the first trial of the effectiveness of a vaccine for dengue, a sometimes fatal disease endemic throughout most tropical countries, have engendered both enthusiasm and disappointment.

Prospects seemed much brighter for the other subspecies, T. brucei gambiense, which is endemic in countries in Central and West Africa and causes the remaining 98 % of cases.

Research led by WorldPop, based at the University, examined and mapped the movement of the disease from endemic countries (those where malaria is regularly found in the population) to around 40 countries defined as being malaria - free or non-endemic (such as the UK).

«One shot of DNA vaccine will offer protection for years at a much lower cost, which is especially beneficial for endemic countries in Latin America and Africa.»

And it is one of the first countries to replace an extinct species, the endemic Mauritius Giant Tortoise, with a living ecological surrogate — the Aldabran Giant Tortoise.

Since then, a small number of cases have been reported each year in individuals with recent travel history to a dengue - endemic country.

Kirby Dick's devastating documentary about the U.S. Military's systemically endorsed sexual abuses against its own soldiers, puts yet another puzzle - piece in America's horrific reality as a country submerged in endemic corruption and anarchy at every level of society.

In the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regulates importations of dogs and cats and these animals should not be imported from rabies - endemic countries until one month after they receive their rabies vaccination (given at 3 months of age).

A CDC regulation is in place to refuse shipments of puppies from rabies - endemic countries if they are underage, or with falsified rabies certificates.

At the present time, heartworm disease caused by the filarial helminth Dirofilaria immitis is not endemic in most of the European countries (Greeve et al., 1983; Schrey, 1996).

«Lyme disease is endemic in many parts of the country.

Beyond the issue of social irresponsibility that relates to importing stray animals into a country that has worked to solve its own stray animal problem for most of this century, a significant public health risk is posed by the mass importation of animals from countries where standards of veterinary medicine are not as high as they are in the US and where diseases and parasites that are not found here currently may be endemic.

The relocation of dogs, as with humanitarian efforts following natural disasters, can introduce heartworm disease to non endemic parts of the country.

Dr. Ron Schultz, our leading veterinary vaccine researcher does not recommend the use of Lyme disease vaccines on his own dogs despite living in a Lyme endemic part of the country in Wisconsin.

Cases of reported feline and canine heartworm infection have increased after hurricanes hit the southeastern United States, sending the disease from endemic areas to all parts of the country.

This animal is Indonesian Endemic animal and also the icon of the country.

These materials are used to produce sculptures, installations and performances that provide a poignant and visceral comment on her country's attitudes towards death and the extreme violence perpetrated in areas such as Northern Mexico, where cartel wars and murders of women are endemic.

In 2010, there were an estimated 216 million cases of malaria in 106 endemic countries and territories in the world.

«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 %.»

The waters around Cocos also support more than 30 unique, marine endemic species, which represents more than 40 percent of the country's known total.

A new report said that one - third of the 108 countries where malaria was endemic were on course to eradicate the disease within 10 years.

«The fact is, medical mistakes are endemic to our health care system, they are one of the leading causes of death in this country, and as a firm, it is not only our mission to achieve maximum compensation for our clients, but also to ensure patient safety for the general public.»

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.

Russian loans have allowed the regime to remain afloat despite years of massive corruption, allegations of endemic drug trafficking by government officials and their families, and gross economic mismanagement of the country's state oil company, PDVSA.

The National Bank of Kazakhstan has decided to take a firm stance against cryptocurrency, citing an interest in protecting Kazakhstan citizens» interests — despite the country's endemic corruption, sham elections, and human rights abuses.