Sentences with phrase «outbreaks of diseases like»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The outbreak of infectious diseases like SARS and bird flu in Asia in recent years has increased the urgency of Canadian governments at all levels to enhance their capacity to cope with possible future outbreaks in this country.

But the presence of various pathogens like Salmonella spp and Escherichia coli O157: H7 in milk have been associated with disease outbreaks around the world.

«An unprecedented event like this outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the South Bronx requires an unprecedented response,» de Blasio.

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.»

To commemorate with Nigerians on World Immunization Day, Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has called on communities to embrace preventive healthcare strategies like immunization, in order to prevent the outbreak of preventable diseases.

The outbreak of the flu - like disease has been confined to the South Bronx.

Other countries, like the Netherlands — IPV - using countries — when they suffered an outbreak due to importation of the virus, they used OPV to stop transmission of the disease.

Said Dr. Martin Gilbert, Wildlife Health Cornell Carnivore Specialist with Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine: «As carnivore numbers decline, they face a greater risk from chance events like outbreaks of disease.

Even Tea Partiers, though, may have become a bit complacent because of movies like Outbreak that show how an antiserum for any new disease can be synthesized in a matter of hours with no specialized knowledge by Cuba Gooding Jr..

Aside from inflicting devastating natural disasters on often vulnerable communities, climate change can also spur outbreaks of infectious diseases like Zika, malaria and dengue fever, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Preventing a future crisis like Ebola requires better diagnostic tools and disease surveillance networks so that outbreaks can be identified and stopped before they get out of hand.

These new regulations required for the first time that WHO member countries report disease outbreaks that might cross their borders and also stipulated that they provide WHO with scientific rationales if they independently take actions that impede traffic or trade, like restricting travel or banning the importation of pigs.

«It's like after a flu outbreak,» says Ryan Harrigan, an infectious disease biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and one of the authors of the study.

«We've shown that there are strong links between damage and disease in this study, now we're interested in understanding and managing other potential drivers of diseases that involve injury - such as outbreaks of crown - of - thorns starfish, cyclones, and recreational activities like anchoring.»

Speaking from temporary offices in Amman, Jordan, he told New Scientist: «In a city with a six million population we are afraid not only of the direct impact in terms of wounded and dead, but also other aspects of public health like outbreaks of disease.»

Predation events, like outbreaks of crown - of - thorns starfish, and disease outbreaks probably require surveys be completed more than once to assess the progression of the outbreak.

«Over the last year there have been high - profile news stories about outbreaks of vaccine - preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough.

In developing countries like Uganda, where floods, food and water shortages, outbreaks of disease, the effects of HIV / AIDS, and internal conflicts occur, the funding of scientific research [will not be the first priority].

Prions are like a more basic version of a virus, which has led to the outbreak of what you might know as mad cow disease.

Future pandemic flu outbreaks would be ranked, like hurricanes, on a scale of 1 to 5, and school closures of up to three months would be recommended for more severe outbreaks, according to a planning guide released jointly last week by the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It's that ideas and behavior and messages and products sometimes behave just like outbreaks of infectious disease.

The answer is not to stop administering vaccinations since that would potentially allow for outbreaks of infectious diseases in cats and can be a public health concern for deadly diseases like rabies.

While at first blush it may seem like a shelter is saving money by waiting to vaccinate only adoptable animals, in reality this practice sets a program up for major outbreaks of disease.

In addition to her impact teaching students all over the U.S. as well as globally, some of her notable achievements include groundbreaking work with community cats in the early 90s through Operation CatNip; advancing the field and credibility of shelter medicine through disease prevention, outbreak response and prioritizing lifesaving over euthanasia; and more recent projects like the Million Cat Challenge.

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As the article continues, it's clear that Greencross clinics encourage dog owners to have their pets vaccinated annually for core vaccines (parvo, distemper and hepatitis) as well as bordetella and parainfluenza, using scare tactics like «disease outbreaks of Canine Parvovirus occur on a regular basis throughout Australia.»

Link Welborn, DVM, DABVP, co-owner of the Tampa Bay Animal Hospitals and Chairman of the AAHA Canine Vaccination Task Force explains that «While it may seem odd, the dogs at greatest risk for catching the canine influenza virus are those that live in areas of the country, like the Tampa Bay area, where there has not been an outbreak of the disease.

Throw all this together with a few environmental hazards, occasional fires, outbreaks of crime and disease and you've got a game which will be instantly familiar to players of the antiquated originals (or indeed of similar titles like The Settlers).

Google compiled its new images of the globe through its publicly available Earth Engine APIs, which are tools intended for scientists wanting to track trends like retreating glaciers, deforestation and disease outbreaks.

I thought that those of you who like to stay on top of the latest in the swine flu outbreak (which is not the same as rising above it) might like to know that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/cdcemergency.