Abstract: Plastic waste can promote microbial colonization by pathogens implicated in
outbreaks of disease in the ocean.
My PhD career, funded with HELIX, will involve looking at how much society is willing to pay to confront future
outbreaks of diseases like malaria.
«There will be a lot
of outbreaks of diseases associated with climatic changes,» he said, «in every part of the globe, for every crop.»
Health officials in the Asokore Mampong Municipality in the Ashanti Region, say they will continue to monitor developments at the Kumasi Academy [KUMACA], to avert a possible
outbreak of any disease as the students resume to begin a new term.
JOHANNESBURG, March 19 (Reuters)- Tiger Brands has closed its factory in Pretoria where listeria was detected as South Africa faces the
worst outbreak of the disease, which has killed 180 people since January 2017.
This sometimes causes
outbreaks of diseases such as Cholera in which 1000s of people die, and commonly introduces toxic algae which can cause massive kills of aquatic life.
This human - agent model of disease dynamics can then be used to provide reproducible empirical analyses, yielding greater insights into the behavioural reactions and individual responses of people threatened
by outbreaks of disease.
With a goal to manage
outbreaks of disease among wild animals in the Smokies as well as other natural areas, the Feral Swine / Pseudo-rabies Working Group at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, campus was initiated through a collaborative effort of mathematical and biological researchers at several academic institutions and wildlife managers at the park.
Zika, the recent Ebola outbreak, and
recent outbreaks of diseases like MERS and SARS show just how important and potentially lifesaving a treatment like that could be — and how frighteningly unprepared we are without one.
Pandemics —
global outbreaks of disease across countries and continents — have been a feature of human history for centuries: as inexplicable and frightening as the contagion in Emily Shultz's novel The Blondes, where women with blonde hair are turned into crazed maniacs.
In the past week, country after country has admitted that millions of birds and a few people have succumbed to bird flu, and it has become clear that we are facing the worst
ever outbreak of the disease.
Periodic outbreaks of the disease in sub-Saharan Africa, including an epidemic between 2013 and 2016, caused major loss of life and serious economic disruption in the three countries where it occurred: Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
Unfortunately, they now also require the pups» being vaccinated against K9 Influenza
since outbreaks of the disease are more likely to occur in areas where large groups of dogs are in relatively close contact, which meant that Missy & Buzz had to get that shot.
Nigeria lies in the so - called «meningitis belt» of sub-Saharan Africa, stretching from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east,
where outbreaks of the disease are a regular occurrence.
He also urged state governments and other key stakeholders to work closely with Nigeria Centre of Disease Control to
address outbreak of diseases.
While we still have reports of conflicts and
outbreak of disease on CNN, BBC and Al - Jazeera, we also now have programs like «Inside Africa», «African Voices», «Marketplace Africa», and «Africa Business Report» — that showcase entrepreneurial acuity, talent and innovation.»
The coordinator said the agency in collaboration with some aid organisations assisted the victims with shelter and evacuated carcasses of dead animals to guard
against outbreak of diseases.
But if it proves successful in humans, it could prevent
feared outbreaks of the disease, which causes hemorrhagic fever and kills most of its victims within days.
That country's first confirmed Ebola cases were later linked to those two cases, which also were linked to a vast second -
wave outbreak of the disease in Liberia.
«This study allowed us to utilize all our tools — and even though this virus does not appear to affect mammals, we are continuing to refine those tools so we can be better prepared for the
next outbreak of disease that could have an impact on human health.»
One of the presenters was Daniel Peterson, an internal medicine specialist and an internationally known clinical expert in CFS from Nevada, where a well -
publicized outbreak of the disease had occurred in communities near Lake Tahoe in 1984 and 1985.
What if the virus first jumped from an infected pig in the United States to a migrant Mexican who returned home to Mexico, which then had an
explosive outbreak of the disease?
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.
Recent developments in surveillance technology could enable a swifter, more effective response to potentially
deadly outbreaks of disease, a study has found.
Many of the major
new outbreaks of disease, particularly in Africa, are so - called zoonotic infections, diseases that are transmitted to humans from animals.
Waterborne diseases are a major cause of illness in developing countries and are responsible for sporadic and
localised outbreaks of disease in the developed world.
These planned phase III studies are the culmination of intense activities by an international group of scientists, funding bodies, industry, governments and the WHO to deliver solutions to one of the most
challenging outbreaks of disease in recent history.»
New York Magazine reported on the issue in its February 2015 edition, noting that widespread vaccine avoidance can
trigger outbreaks of diseases that were once thought to be under control, such as distemper.
The first Mongolian saiga casualties of the goat plague outbreak were discovered in late December 2016, following the
first outbreak of the disease in sheep and goats in the country in September 2016.