Sentences with phrase «outbreak of the virus in»

Originally identified in 1947 in Uganda, Zika was relatively unknown until 2007, when there was an outbreak of the virus in Micronesia.

The president said government was prepared and had put measures in place to deal with any possible future outbreak of the virus in the country.

In fact, on 11 May, the DRC's Ministry of Health notified the World Health Organization of a new outbreak of the virus in that country, with 37 suspected cases in seven villages so far, and several deaths.

Animal health authorities have reported outbreaks of the virus in three states in Nigeria, the continent's most populous country.

Following previous outbreaks of the virus in northeastern Gabon and in the northwest of the Republic of the Congo in 2001, the Gabonese and Congolese ministries of forestry and environment, along with several wildlife organizations, implemented a temporary Animal Mortality Monitoring Network.

Undiagnosed Ebola virus infection was probably very rare in international workers who were deployed during the 2013 - 2015 outbreak of the virus in West Africa, despite mild and asymptomatic cases of Ebola being known to occur, according to new research published in the journal PLOS Medicine.

Not exact matches

To show just how rapidly Zika gained a foothold in the Americas, we created a GIF displaying all of the places that the Zika virus has spread through local transmission since the start of the outbreak:

The outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa in 2014, and the worldwide panic it caused, served as a wake - up call: We as a human race are still extremely vulnerable to fast - spreading, infectious diseases.

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-- ZIKA: Florida public health investigators have identified 10 additional Zika cases in the Miami area, bringing the total to 14 in the first known outbreak of the virus to be caused by mosquitoes in the continental U.S., Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Monday.

And a new study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization warned that this is a recipe for more outbreaks — even in the southern US, where the virus is not endemic but where mosquitoes that can carry the virus live.

The outbreak of the virus last year killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa.

Late last month, according to several sources, the U.S. Olympic Committee started telling members of Team USA who are concerned about the Zika virus outbreak that they can think about skipping this summer's olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.

Given the latest outbreak of the Zika virus this year, we know that in some cases contraceptives are imperative to reduce incidences of birth defects, like microcephaly.

Experts say chances of an outbreak in the area are minimal, because the type of mosquitos that carry the virus are not native to that part of the country.

With 1,118 reported cases and a death toll at 41, the current outbreak of the West Nile virus is the biggest in U.S. history and also its fastest, with last...

Updated statement as of September 1, 2016 Even as Zika virus outbreaks continue to be identified in the U.S. and abroad, HMBANA affirms that donor human milk is safe for even the most vulnerable

Menabde said currently 34 countries had reported the Zika virus outbreak, mostly in the Americas and Caribbean, and seven reported an increase in cases of microcephaly.

Former vice-president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has said that the fresh outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in DR Congo, «is a cause for concern and...

Explaining that the virus had the Central African and the West African types, the commissioner said the West African type was milder and had no records of mortality, saying «recently in Bayelsa State, we noticed a suspected outbreak of Monkey Pox.

The state Commissioner for Health, Professor Ebitimitula Etebu, while confirming the outbreak, said samples of the virus had been sent to the World Health Organisation, WHO, laboratory in Dakar, Senegal, for confirmation.

He described Monkey Pox as a viral illness caused by a group of viruses that include chicken pox and small pox, noting that the first case was noticed in the Democratic Republic of Congo and subsequently it had outbreaks in the West African region.

There have been no reports of the virus is being transmitted from mosquitoes to people in the U.S., though officials are concerned that small outbreaks could happen as the weather warms.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday asked President Goodluck Jonathan to put the rallies being organised across the nation by the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) for his re-election on hold following the outbreak of the Ebola Virus disease in the country.

The topic of preventing the Ebola virus in New York State became part of the Governor's race, when the Republican candidate proposed that flights be banned from countries with Ebola outbreaks.

The Kumasi Academy was in the news recently following reports of student deaths that was eventually linked to an outbreak of the swine flu virus.

Scientists believe a second report of the virus a month after foot and mouth was first confirmed was part of the same outbreak, suggesting the government should not have claimed to have contained the virus in the intervening period.

The outbreak of bird flu in Suffolk is the virulent H5N1 strain of the virus, the government has said.

He said West Africa demonstrated maximum unity during the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, explaining that it would be expedient to exhibit the same level of unity and cooperation to tackle other nagging issues on the continent.

World authorities are fighting to limit the effects of the virus, but 103 people have already died in Mexico, where the current outbreak took place, with 1,600 people infected.

In addition, the honourable minister of health has directed Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) to include Zika virus diagnosis as part of ongoing effort to manage Lassa Fever outbreak in the countrIn addition, the honourable minister of health has directed Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) to include Zika virus diagnosis as part of ongoing effort to manage Lassa Fever outbreak in the countrin the country.

KINSHASA (Reuters)- A person in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who died of a hemorrhagic fever has tested positive for the Ebola virus, signaling the start of a new outbreak, the DRC Health Ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

New York State Director of Operations Jim Malatras in front of a map showing potential areas for a Zika virus outbreak.

The Federal Government shifted the resumption dates for all private and public schools in the country till Monday as a result of the recent outbreak of the Ebola Disease Virus in some southern states.

CHICKENPOX COMMON AMONG CHILDREN DESPITE VACCINE The highly contagious varicella - zoster virus (VZV), commonly known as chickenpox, often affects children under age 12 and sometimes even after they have been vaccinated against the disease, Oneida County Health Department officials warned today following reports of an outbreak in Herkimer County.

Former vice-president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has said that the fresh outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in DR Congo, «is a cause for concern and immediate action».

5Zika vaccine: Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who has been highly critical of the federal response to the outbreak of the Zika virus, used his emergency powers Thursday to direct $ 25 million in state money toward helping to develop a vaccine.

It follows a wave of fatal outbreaks of the virulent disease in neighboring Guinea and Liberia, where health workers have been battling to contain the virus since Monday.

Many species of bats may spread the deadly virus, which has infected 20,171 people and killed 7,890 in the ongoing West African outbreak.

The new study tests the effects of four other viruses: the two flaviviruses and two alphaviruses, chikungunya and Mayaro, which also have led to outbreaks in Zika - affected areas.

Speakers included Dimitri Prybylski of the U.S. - based Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Namibia office, who was involved in coordinating the international response to the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa; Markus Theobald of the EU Delegation to Namibia in Windhoek; and Pierguido Sarti, Italian science attaché to South Africa, Namibia, and other southern African countries.

In another example, Epstein's laboratory at NYU is working with the city's public health department to model potential outbreaks of Zika, a mosquito - borne virus that can lead to catastrophic birth defects.

That's true in the case of the Zika virus outbreak currently marching through the Americas.

Research published in early 2004 shows that the viruses from all known human cases of the 2003 outbreak seem to descend from the same lineage.

In fact, the pattern looked like that of a protracted hospital outbreak in which patients had been infecting each other over many years, with viruses becoming isolated, building up very different signatures of mutations, and reinfecting patients via surgical equipment or blood supplieIn fact, the pattern looked like that of a protracted hospital outbreak in which patients had been infecting each other over many years, with viruses becoming isolated, building up very different signatures of mutations, and reinfecting patients via surgical equipment or blood suppliein which patients had been infecting each other over many years, with viruses becoming isolated, building up very different signatures of mutations, and reinfecting patients via surgical equipment or blood supplies.

W. Ian Lipkin, director of the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, led the scientific team that identified the first U.S. outbreak of West Nile virus in 1999.

«A large urban outbreak of yellow fever virus in a tropical megacity is a terrifying prospect,» said Ebel.

Although Zika's path was documented starting in 2015 through records of human cases, less was known about how the virus spread so silently before detection, or how outbreaks in different parts of Central and South America were connected.

Why is it that animal viruses seem to be responsible for virtually every modern plague — West Nile, Ebola, AIDS, SARS, and most recently, the frightening (but so far contained) outbreak of bird flu in Southeast Asia?

However, Indonesia, where most H5N1 outbreaks are happening, refuses to share samples of the virus, arguing that it will not benefit in return from any vaccines developed as a result.