Sentences with phrase «outbreaks in»

But the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization says there is no evidence tying outbreaks in poultry to wild birds.

More importantly, because the miRNA - like fragment of EBOV is highly conserved, it may predict and prevent Ebola outbreaks in the future if Ebola arises again.

Some of the biggest outbreaks in history — including the 1974 Super Outbreak, as well as the devastating 2011 season — occurred during La Niña years.

Focusing on flu outbreaks in the U.S. between 2003 and 2008, Justin Ortiz from the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington and colleagues from CDC and PATH, a Seattle - based nonprofit health organization, found that Google Flu Trends deviated greatest from CDC surveillance figures for laboratory - confirmed flu rates during the 2003 — 2004 flu season, which saw a high number of flu - related deaths in children and, as a result, was a hot topic in the media.

The last documented outbreak of southern pine beetle in New Jersey occurred over 80 years ago, but the mid-Atlantic states may see more regular outbreaks in the future.

It has been nearly 3 decades since a group of researchers led by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) coined the term «chronic fatigue syndrome» after an investigation of two outbreaks in the United States.

The largest outbreak of the MERS coronavirus outside the Middle East is no different from previous outbreaks in the way that it spreads

New research indicates that bark beetle outbreaks in forests create several new roosting and foraging possibilities for the protected bat species Barbastella barbastellus.

The researchers hope that a therapeutic drug will be particularly useful for combating outbreaks in unvaccinated hotspots.

Recovered carcasses were infected by a variety of Ebola strains, suggesting that Ebola outbreaks in great apes result from multiple virus introductions from the natural host.

Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Institut Pasteur in France, and collaborators from across the world, studied outbreaks in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean from the last 60 years.

«We've looked at about 50 different cities to see whether places that had outbreaks in the spring are seeing increases now.

The infection occurs all over the developing world, but there have been sporadic outbreaks in the United States, typically in the summer when a pool is contaminated with the Cryptosporidium parasite.

«Since we started using eggs from fish with the desired traits, the number of IPN outbreaks in Norway has dropped from 200 per year to 50.»

This extreme «hygienic behavior,» as it's technically called, is an effective way of containing disease outbreaks in crowded insect colonies.

Without proper disinfection procedures, outbreaks in the U.S. would significantly increase.

Prompted by the recent Zika virus outbreaks in Latin America and some parts of the United States, scientists around the world have been racing to develop candidate vaccines, and already several have been tested in animals.

Prompted by the recent Zika virus outbreaks in Latin America and some parts of the United States, scientists around the world have been racing to develop candidate vaccines.

About three - quarters of kids aged 7 to 10 who caught pertussis in Washington State — a major hot spot of outbreaks in 2012 — had been fully vaccinated.

First identified in East Africa in the early 1950s, chikungunya virus caused sporadic illness in Africa and large urban outbreaks in Thailand and India in the 1960s and 1970s.

In each case, the virus in pigs closely resembled H5N1 from nearby outbreaks in poultry, suggesting it has jumped from the bird to the pig population.

Since then, the virus — now named for the river where it appeared — has re-emerged unpredictably, mostly in Central Africa but sometimes farther afield, causing small but deadly outbreaks in a village or two.

Researchers might soon be able to track outbreaks in real time, thanks to advances in sequencing technology.

The team's results may begin to answer an outstanding question from the Zika epidemic: Why have Zika - related microcephaly and other brain abnormalities been seen in areas hard - hit by outbreaks in the past few years but not in the decades following the virus's discovery in 1947?

In a paper last August, researchers reported that the virus (Zaire ebolavirus) was altering its genes almost twice as fast as it had during previous Ebola outbreaks in Central Africa (SN: 9/20/14, p. 7).

West Nile virus has walloped the United States 5 years running, but mysteriously, there have been few human outbreaks in Europe — even though the virus is endemic there.

Predicting cholera outbreaks in Dhaka Though the ENSO is hard to predict, there is some lag between a La Niña onset and an influenza pandemic, the former preceding the latter by three to six months.

This past April, the series of outbreaks in the Midwest and Southeast generated at least 600 tornadoes — more than any previous month on record.

Underequipped rural hospitals have facilitated Ebola virus outbreaks in Africa.

The number of unvaccinated children has led to several recent vaccine - preventable outbreaks in the U.S., including measles and whooping cough.

Because the dogs roam far and wide, dog vaccination programs didn't reach enough animals to generate prolonged protection and prevent outbreaks in wolves.

As scientists at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health recently found while investigating whooping cough outbreaks in and around Michigan, «geographic pockets of vaccine exemptors pose a risk to the whole community.»

After 1919, the descendants of the H1N1 virus continue to circulate and cause seasonal flu outbreaks in humans — and pigs.

Spending on cholera goes mostly to contain outbreaks in new places, leaving hotspots as continued sources of disease.

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.

1 in 25 Proportion of food - poisoning outbreaks in restaurants that can be traced back to salsa and guacamole, according to a 2010 analysis by the CDC, up from 1 in 66 a decade ago.

The strain sparked outbreaks in Panama, France, the Netherlands, and Canada, preying on people with compromised immunity.

CLOSTRIDIUM IN CANADA: Virulent Clostridium difficile erupted in 25 outbreaks in Ontario hospitals in 2011, with dozens of potentially related deaths.

The team, who published their findings in the journal Science, predict the next large - scale epidemic is unlikely to emerge for at least another ten years — although there is a possibility of smaller outbreaks in this time.

Americans were particularly fortunate that the other predominate strain of chikungunya — one that derives from Africa and has fueled significant outbreaks in Asian countries for the past decade — was not seen in this hemisphere.

Anyone would be able to use the system to find out about disease outbreaks in their area, or when travelling, and protect themselves accordingly.

«Social networks could help prevent disease outbreaks in endangered chimpanzees.»

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.

A few meters away from where one of the worst cholera outbreaks in history started, several Haitian teenagers are enjoying a bath.

But occasionally, such as during isolated outbreaks in a refugee crisis, the world receives a vivid reminder of how the disease still affects people.

Previous studies of MERS outbreaks in early 2014 estimated the infective potential at between 2 and 6.7 in Saudi Arabia, similar to the numbers for severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which has an infective potential of between 2 and 4.

And, while not a particularly common source of foodborne illness, flour has been implicated in two E. coli outbreaks in the United States and Canada in the last two years.

As I have explained, when I came into the Department, the clear advice to me was that it would be justified to stand up a new national network — with all the resource, energy and time that that would take — when we had simultaneous outbreaks in many parts of the country and there was not only pressure in two or three places but more sustained pressure across the country.

The Ghana Health Service in early February issued an alert on the disease following outbreaks in neighboring countries.

As the current outbreak tapers off, we now look to how to prevent these outbreaks in the future, and this groundbreaking legislation provides the tools needed to safeguard our communities.