Sentences with phrase «plague outbreaks»

Then there was the Gunpowder Plot, the attempt by Catholic rebels to blow up King and Parliament together, along with new plague outbreaks and a highly theatrical state visit by King James's father - in - law, the King of Denmark.

Instead, climate variation in Asia appeared to influence plague outbreaks in Europe.

Climate fluctuations in Asia are known to trigger plague outbreaks, as climate variation is closely tied to rodent population densities.

Believed to have originally come to Europe from Asia via the Silk Road trading route, it was thought that the repeated plague outbreaks that followed the Black Death epidemic were caused by rodent reservoirs in Europe — bacteria - infested fleas hiding out in rats.

The team analysed 4119 historical records of post-Black Death plague outbreaks and found that the vast majority were probably caused by similar outbreaks nearby.

By comparing these cases with historical records, Stenseth's team were able to identify 16 years within the period from 1346 to 1837 in which brand new introductions of Y. pestis are likely to have been responsible for plague outbreaks, as opposed to infection from neighbouring regions or local trade partners.

That's surprising as recent plague outbreaks weren't as devastating.

In other words, the new plague outbreaks were linked to Asian rodents, not rats living in Europe, as had been thought.

This explanation for where fresh European plague outbreaks came from explains how countries like Norway, which did not have rat populations at the time, could have suffered repeated outbreaks.

By comparing a most comprehensive digital inventory of historical plague outbreaks (7711 cases) against 15 annually resolved and absolutely dated tree ring - based climate reconstructions, it became obvious that east - west travelling waves of Asian plague epidemics repeatedly reached Europe.

Research scientist Salkeld and Antolin, professor and chair of biology in the College of Natural Sciences, assert that the swirl of ecological factors driving plague outbreaks in prairie dogs can lend key insights into the study of zoonotic diseases.

«Asian tree rings explain historical plague outbreaks in Europe.»

This poor island nation is regularly hit by plague outbreaks, but they are typically the relatively less dangerous bubonic form, transmitted from rats to humans by fleas, and occur largely in remote areas.

Scientists in the United States do not take plague outbreaks lightly.

The thousands of skeletons originally interred from the mid-16th through 18th centuries at the Bedlam burial ground are expected to provide researchers with unparalleled information about a formative time for London that included the English Civil Wars, Restoration, the last major plague outbreak and The Great London Fire of 1666.

Zhibin Zhang, an ecologist at the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Zoology in Beijing and a co-author of the paper, says that in the event of a plague outbreak, «monitoring and prevention measures should be taken in regions facing an obvious increase in precipitation or flooding events, and with close transportation connections with plague [centers].»

Cities throughout Asia that have purged street dogs have repeatedly suffered the consequences of leaving the dogs» ecological niche open to invasion by rats, as triggered the plague outbreak of 1994 in Surat, India, or monkeys, street pigs, or other animals who carry diseases as deadly as rabies but harder to eradicate.

Not exact matches

In a modern outbreak of plague, antibiotics and other medical advances help us fare better, but it remains a particularly nasty disease.

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?

Bd outbreaks make bubonic plague look like a slight cough,» he said.

«If we study humans before, during, and after the plague, we should see how the human genome responded to these repeated outbreaks and the response in bacteria,» Poinar says.

Plague is endemic in many countries — the United States had 16 cases of bubonic plague in 2015 — but Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Peru are the countries that frequently have serious outbreaks.

From the avian flu to the bubonic plague, disease outbreaks have been a constant in human history.

He was a genius who invented calculus as a student at Cambridge during a 1665 outbreak of plague but failed to publish his findings; an egotist who would later covertly convene a committee to accuse his rival Gottfried Leibniz, an independent originator of calculus, of plagiarism; and a heretic who rejected the Trinity but was deeply religious (one fascinating document on display is his hand - drawn reconstruction of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, based on biblical units of measurement).

Igor Domaradskij put it this way in the introduction to a monograph: «In prior years we were told so often that infections such as plague and cholera had been fully eradicated that outbreaks of cholera... caught everyone by surprise....

In a report on the starfish released last week, scientists from the CSIRO, Australia's national research organisation, compare the starfish outbreak to Australia's perennial plagues of rabbits.

Moreover, increased population density and changes in economics have meant that the progress of an epidemic will not necessarily follow the course nor move at the speed of historical «plagues» even up to the global influenza outbreaks of the twentieth century.

Throughout their analysis of plague in prairie dogs, they concluded that such diseases may «smolder» unnoticed in a population for years, rather than jump from species to species immediately before an outbreak.

«The mass burials where our samples come from often represent events where hundreds of people died of plague during a single outbreak,» Herbig says.

The plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, is one of the deadliest pathogens in human history, sparking three major pandemics: the Plague of Justinian, which struck the Roman Empire during the 6th and 8th centuries; the second plague pandemic, which first erupted in Europe in the mid-14th-century Black Death and continued to strike the continent in recurrent outbreaks until the mid-18th century; and the third plague pandemic, which emerged in China during the late 19th century.

A team of epidemiologists and viral experts from the WHO and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta will attempt to reach the affected area, which is remote and plagued by civil war, early next week to collect more samples and look for the source of the outbreak.

It wasn't the rats after all — gerbils, trade and climate fluctuations in central Asia were responsible for repeated outbreaks of plague across Europe

Within a public health context, periodic monitoring of the susceptibility status of fleas in plague risk areas would allow all regions to be prepared in the case of an outbreak.

Dunkelberg says that individual cases of plague could occur in Europe, but that outbreaks would be unlikely.

The outbreak is ongoing but, in spite of appearances, Cryptococcus gattii doesn't exist to plague us.

The arrival of rats, a famous vector for the plague, comes close on the heels of the Justinian Plague outbreak of 541 - 542 BC in the Eastern Roman Empire and around the Mediterranean.

Availability Natural outbreaks of plague still occur - most notably in Africa, Asia and western USA.

The researchers sought to discover if European outbreaks during the plague pandemic that began in the mid-14th century were related to climate changes.

Just 24 of the outbreaks could have been associated with rodent reservoirs, according to the authors; eight of those were traced back to the arrival of plague - carrying ships, and there was no link between the remaining 16 outbreaks and climate fluctuations in Europe.

The focus of the conference will be global health, using the Ebola outbreak as a case study of a modern plague.

To expand on this perspective, the Princeton - Fung Global Forum will convene Nov. 2 — 3 in Dublin, Ireland, to examine global health, using the Ebola outbreak as a case study of a modern plague.

Using a multidisciplinary approach, panelists will examine economic, environmental, political and historical issues in addition to those of health and medicine to draw lessons from the current outbreak and devise methods to prevent modern plagues going forward.

Known as the Black Death, bubonic plague killed millions of people in Europe during a series of outbreaks during the Middle Ages.

The film takes place in 1348 during the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England.

Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk -LSB-...]

IDW's sequel to David Cronenberg's horror masterpiece continues today with the release of The Fly: Outbreak # 3, and you can see a preview of the issue right here... A disaster at Bartok Industries threatens to unleash a plague of human / fly hybrids on the world.

IDW's sequel to The Fly reaches its conclusion today with the release of The Fly: Outbreak # 5, and you can check out a preview of the issue right here... A disaster at Bartok Industries threatens to unleash a plague of human / fly hybrids on the world.

IDW releases the penultimate issue of The Fly: Outbreak today, and we have a preview for you right here... A disaster at Bartok Industries threatens to unleash a plague of human / fly hybrids on the world.

The Fits (Director: Anna Rose Holmer, Screenwriters: Anna Rose Holmer, Saela Davis, Lisa Kjerulff)-- In this psychological portrait, Toni, an 11 - year - old tomboy, is assimilating into a tight - knit dance team in Cincinnati's West End when a mysterious outbreak of fainting spells plagues the team, and her desire for acceptance is twisted.

Set 15 years after the outbreak of the plague that wiped out a significant amount of the human population, the narrative depicts Caesar (Andy Serkis) seeking vengeance for the brutal slaughter of his wife and child at the hands of a mythical figure known as The Colonel (Woody Harrelson).