Sentences with phrase «rapid outbreak of»

Back in this part of the world, it may not be so likely to see a rapid outbreak of the plague from fleas, but the pests still have their dangers.

The serendipitous pursuit of a rapid outbreak of virulent tuberculosis shows how the disease can be stopped in its tracks, according to a report in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine.

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And he told the House of Commons he was satisfied that the response to the outbreak had been «rapid, well - coordinated and appropriate».

«Worldwide problems such the Ebola virus outbreak, the rapid spread of microbes resistant to antibiotics, and the diabetes epidemic are objective evidence of the need for more research and better treatment,» Lattman said Monday.

To control the spread of cholera during an outbreak, rapid care for infected people is vital, including providing ready access to rehydration therapy — a huge challenge in a country where civil war has wreaked havoc on public health and other infrastructure.

In contrast, analysis of sequence data from early in the outbreak indicated rapid mutation.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, introduced a rapid - surveillance platform called PulseNet following an outbreak of a different EHEC strain, called O157: H7, in 1993.

Furthermore, new antiviral drugs are required for rapid treatment of acute infections by viruses like Marburg and Ebola viruses during acute viral outbreaks.

Given that outbreaks of yellow fever in urban settings have the potential for rapid spread and that significant yellow fever epidemics are ongoing in Angola, DRC and Uganda, a range of options for response by EU / EEA Member States are presented in the updated rapid risk assessment.

«I think the reduction of habitat definitely decreased their population size,» Hung says, noting something similar may explain the extinction of other outbreak species in North America, like the Rocky Mountain grasshopper in the western U.S. «Our study suggests that the combination of natural population size changes and human disturbances drove the rapid extinction of this bird.»

Read the rapid risk assessment: Outbreaks of yellow fever in Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, first update: http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/Publications/RRA-Yellow%20fever-first-update-Angola-China-DRC-Uganda-May-2016.pdf

The Prevention Fund dollars will go, among other things, to promoting rapid detection of disease outbreaks and reducing the spread of various diseases.

In India, for example, a rapid decline of vultures in the 1990s led to a rise in feral dogs — and rabies outbreaks.

«This is a huge public health issue that urgently requires new tools for the active monitoring of outbreaks and rapid diagnosis of the pathogens involved,» explains senior author and evolutionary geneticist Franck Prugnolle, from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Montpellier, France.

«This nanoformulation approach allows us to make vaccines against new diseases in only seven days, allowing the potential to deal with sudden outbreaks or make rapid modifications and improvements,» says Daniel Anderson, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Chemical Engineering and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).

IDEA is well suited for providing rapid assessments of outbreak growth and public health interventions, according to the researchers.

As the Ebola outbreak simmers on in West Africa, researchers have shown the utility of a rapid test for the virus that could help contain another epidemic.

I didn't see the kind of rapid response team that's needed to stop a single cluster from becoming a large outbreak.»

Risk assessment: Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N8) in Europe, updated rapid risk assessment

The intent is to accelerate progress towards preventing and reducing future outbreaks of disease, detecting threats early and providing rapid, effective, coordinated responses to emerging threats.

* The Ebola Files: Given the current Ebola outbreak, unprecedented in terms of number of people killed and rapid geographic spread, Science and Science Translational Medicine have made a collection of research and news articles on the viral disease freely available to researchers and the general public.

«There is brief window of time when a rapid and forceful intervention in terms of relentless contact tracing and isolation pays off handsomely and the transmission is effectively halted and the outbreak dies out,» said co-author Professor Lone Simonsen, of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University in Washington D.C.

* The Ebola Files: Given the current Ebola outbreak, unprecedented in terms of number of people killed and rapid geographic spread, Science and Science Translational Medicinehave made a collection of research and news articles on the viral disease freely available to researchers and the general public.

In just the last 6 years the EID outbreaks of MERS, Ebola, Zika, CHIKV as examples have underscored the importance of rapid vaccine development and deployment capabilities to meet EID challenges, as well as growing appreciation for creativity and flexibility in clinical trial design.

New outbreaks of rust epidemics, for example on previously resistant wheat cultivars, can be diagnosed rapid and efficient so that preventive and control measures can be implemented without delay.

«Our study indicates the considerable potential of sequencing for the rapid identification of MRSA outbreaks,» says Professor Sharon Peacock, lead author from the University of Cambridge and clinical specialist at the Health Protection Agency.

Second, the Asian lineage has caused frequent outbreaks in the Pacific islands and in 2013 was introduced into the Caribbean, followed by rapid spread to nearly all of the neotropics.

The National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, IA is sequencing two isolates from this outbreak, which were isolated at Cornell, to facilitate rapid complete characterization of the viruses.

Because of its cold - adapted features and rapid warming, climate change impacts on Alaska are already pronounced, including earlier spring snowmelt, reduced sea ice, widespread glacier retreat, warmer permafrost, drier landscapes, and more extensive insect outbreaks and wildfire, as described below.

The public is beginning to see the danger, too — Midwestern farmers struggling with drought, more damaging wildfires out West, and withering record summer heat across the country — while wondering about possible linkages between rapid Arctic warming and strange weather patterns, like the recent outbreak of Arctic air across much of the United States.»