Sentences with phrase «of vector control»
In a 2008 presentation, Dunn stated «I assert that warm is good for human health and that global warming, even the most extreme estimates, will not create heat illness or death increases and certainly no changes that are more important than the basic public health measures of vector control, water, nutrition, sewage and water quality, and housing quality.»
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«Perhaps the best documented impact of vector control to date has been the impact of distribution of long - lasting insecticide treated nets against malaria.
After convening a meeting of its Vector Control Advisory Group (VCAG) earlier this week, the WHO said its specialists had reviewed five potential new weapons against Aedes mosquitoes.
In the summer months, the county's Division of Vector Control typically conducts a blanket application of methoprene via helicopters flying at low altitude over Accabonac Harbor, Napeague, and Beach Hampton in Amagansett.
The funding will be used to purchase supplies that will be delivered to municipalities and creates a contingency fund to be used toward the cost of transitioning the process of vector control.
Such data help inform the specific steps of vector control measures so that measures are efficient and effective.
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The Suffolk County Legislature approved a 2018 vector control plan on Tuesday that includes use of methoprene, a mosquito larvicide, but also acknowledges a pilot program launched this year at Accabonac Harbor that is intended to reduce and possibly...
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Republican Congressman Chris Gibson's bipartisan legislation requires the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control to audit available research on vector - borne diseases like Lyme disease.
The Suffolk County Legislature approved a 2018 vector control plan on Tuesday that includes use of methoprene, a mosquito larvicide, but also acknowledges a pilot program launched this year at Accabonac Harbor that is intended to reduce and possibly eliminate the pesticide's use.
In an effort to combat tick - borne illnesses, county Legislature Jay Schneiderman (I - Montauk) has introduced new legislation to step up pressure on Suffolk County Vector Control, which is in charge of controlling the spread of insect - borne diseases.
«The ECDOH Rabies, Disease and Vector Control program is actively putting boots on the ground to hand bait areas throughout Erie County in the next few days» said Dr. Gale R. Burstein, Erie County Commissioner of Health.
In addition, the ECDOH Division of Environmental Health will have staff from their Rabies, Disease and Vector Control Program distributing baits via vehicles and on foot.
«The ECDOH Rabies, Disease and Vector Control program will be actively putting boots on the ground to hand bait areas throughout Erie County,» said Dr. Gale R. Burstein, Erie County Commissioner of Health.
The proposed law would require the Suffolk County Vector Control to submit an annual plan that indicates steps being taken to reduce the incidence of tick - borne illnesses — including work to be done, active measures being taken and an analysis to determine the effectiveness of the program.
The Havana symposium brought experts from both countries to discuss approaches to controlling the vectors, particularly Aedes aegypti, that transmit such diseases as dengue, chikungunya and Zika virus, all of which have appeared across broad swaths of the Americas, including in Cuba and the United States.
Preliminary results of the study were presented at a World Health Organization (WHO) evidence review group meeting, while UNITAID has issued a call for further research into the use of endectocide class drugs, of which ivermectin is currently the only one registered for human use, as new vector control tools in the fight against malaria and other mosquito borne disease.
«We've been seeing growing evidence of the association between Zika and congenital central nervous system malformations, not just microcephaly, since the first cases were picked up,» says Wim Van Bortel, senior expert on vector - borne diseases at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Solna, Sweden.
Biological control of mosquito vectors: Past, present, and future.
«This response has been the most complex outbreak response for CDC,» said Ben Beard, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Vector - Borne Diseases, in an email.
Marcia Castro's research focuses on infectious diseases (particularly mosquito borne), environmental change and health, environmental management for vector control, spatial patterns of disease transmission, and infant & child mortality.
In collaboration with many researchers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty elsewhere), we have examined the role of cross-immunity on the evolution and dynamics of influenza; the impact of behavioral changes, long periods of infectiousness, variable infectivity, co-infections, prostitution, social networks, and vaccine efficacy on HIV dynamics; the role of exogenous re-infection, variable progression rates, vaccination, public transportation, close and casual contacts on tuberculosis dynamics and control; the impact of life - history vector dynamics on dengue epidemics; and on the identification of time - response scales for epidemics of foot and mouth disease.
Continued support for the development of other novel strategies including drugs, improved case management, insecticides, and new approaches to vector control, is needed before effective dengue control becomes a credible prospect.
Dengue Branch, Division of Vector - Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan 00971, Puerto Rico.
«The use of fish to control mosquito disease vectors should be abandoned by authorities,» says Valter Azevedo - Santos, an ichthyologist at São Paulo State University in Botucatu, Brazil, who co-authored a letter objecting to the strategy published in Science earlier this year.
They directly injected into the cerebrospinal fluid of a mouse model of Alzheimer's — adult animals in which plaques were well established — viral vectors carrying genes for one of the three APOE variants or a control protein.
Recent estimates indicate that there are 390 million infections of dengue across the globe each year and with no vaccine or specific treatment available, current measures to prevent the spread of disease are focused on controlling the mosquito vector.
And that could exacerbate vector - control efforts in Malawi, says study co-author Maureen Coetzee, who directs the medical entomology research unit at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
But immunologist Nordin Zeidner, chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vector - Host Laboratory in Fort Collins, Colorado, had doubts, and after retesting the technique found a success rate of just 20 to 30 percent in mice.
Mosquitoes (Anopheles funestus) are vectors of malaria, and most strategies for combating the spread of the disease focus on control of mosquito populations using insecticides.
Such tools will allow control programs to detect and track resistance at an early stage in the field, which is an essential requirement to successfully tackle the growing problem of insecticide resistance in vector control.
«By considering that stethoscopes are used repeatedly over the course of a day, come directly into contact with patients» skin, and may harbor several thousands of bacteria (including MRSA) collected during a previous physical examination, we consider them as potentially significant vectors of transmission,» commented lead investigator Didier Pittet, MD, MS, Director of the Infection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals.
In 2013, India's National Vector Borne Diseases Control Program reported that the country had experienced an annual average of 20,474 dengue cases and 132 dengue - related deaths since 2007, but infectious disease experts believe those official numbers likely reflect only a small fraction of actual cases.
«They are our first line of defense because they are the first ones to find the neglected swimming pools that are virtually hidden from public view,» Contra Costa Mosquito and Vector Control District spokeswoman Deborah Bass told the Contra Costa Times on Monday.
Standard control measures were implemented for one year (i.e. Active case detection, intensifies vector control), after which a program of mass drug administration (MDA) was implemented to provide the entire local immigrant population with a curative course of antimalarial drugs.
The high diversity of mosquitoes in central Panama where more than 250 species have been reported, may make it difficult to control incoming diseases by controlling the mosquito vectors.»
In 2008, 445 cases of West Nile were reported in California, with the first case living next door to a stagnant pool, said David Farley, manager of the Fresno mosquito and vector control district.
They found that a two - pronged approach — integrating active screening and vector control — could substantially speed up the elimination of Gambian sleeping sickness in high burden areas of DRC.
While it is well known that some individuals within the same community may be exposed to a different number of mosquito bites, very few studies have been carried out to measure the causes of that heterogeneity, or variance, to understand its impact on the control of vector - borne diseases in a way that is relevant to decision making.
If DRC adopts any of the new strategies with vector control, transmission would probably be broken within six years of launching the new program in these areas — and over 6000 new infections could be averted between 2017 and 2030.
Therefore, vector control is currently the only means of breaking the transmission cycle for the disease.
Vector borne disease control often relies on universal distribution of interventions, such as long - lasting insecticide treated bednets for malaria and mass drug administration for filariasis.
«The results suggest that caution should be used when releasing Wolbachia - infected mosquitoes into nature to control vector - borne diseases of humans.»
That knowledge, combined with earlier research by Rey and others, could hint at novel ways to block the virus from infecting cells, says virologist John Roehrig of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Vector - Borne Diseases in Fort Collins, Colorado.
As insecticides are highly important in controlling the spread of plague, researchers from the Institut Pasteur de Madagascar carried out a bioassay to determine the response of the flea vector to different types of insecticides.
Research by Lancaster University published in the open access journal Parasites and Vectors suggest that using bacterial controls to stop the spread of leishmaniasis could sometimes have the opposite effect to that intended, by benefiting flies carrying the parasite.
PAHO / WHO has been working with member countries for a number of years on vector control and in the coming weeks will convene experts from throughout the Americas to discuss new, more effective and integrated mosquito control strategies that would help reduce not only Zika infections but also cases of dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, and West Nile virus — all of which are spread by mosquitoes and are significant public health problems in the Americas.
Climate change effects on the geographical distribution and incidence of vector - borne diseases in other countries where these diseases are already found can also affect North Americans, especially as a result of increasing trade with, and travel to, tropical and subtropical areas.63, 197 Whether climate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect contact.
PCR - amplified cDNA encoding control (c. 617G) or mutant (c. 617A) hACVRI was inserted into a derivative of pCS2 + vector (61) containing an in - frame C - terminal FLAG epitope (provided by M. Deardorff and P. Klein, University of Pennsylvania).
The ZFNs targeting either the cxcr4 or ccr5 genes were linked via a 2A peptide sequence and cloned into the pAdEasy - 1 / F35 vector under control of the CMV TetO promoter, and the Ad5 / F35 virus for each construct was generated using TREx 293T cells as described [33].