Sentences with phrase «recent outbreaks of diseases»

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.

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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.

The world economy has been subject to a series of «one - off» events over recent years, the latest of which has been the outbreak of the respiratory disease known as SARS in mid March.

Outbreaks of whooping cough, or pertussis, have occurred across the U.S. in recent years, especially where clusters of children have not been vaccinated against the disease.

Speaking at the time, Sir Leslie Turnberg, Chairman of the UK Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) commented: ³ The vital importance of infectious disease surveillance is clear from the global increase in infectious diseases and the looming threat of antibiotic resistance... The effectiveness of the PHLS is beyond question, and the astonishingly swift identification of the cause of the recent outbreak of salmonellosis from powdered baby milk undoubtedly saved many babies from becoming ill.

One person has died in connection to the recent Legionnaires» disease outbreak in the Morris Park section of the Bronx, city officials said Wednesday.

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.

But as Mr. de Blasio suffers criticism on a host of fronts — the city's ballooning homeless population, his recent handling of a Legionnaire's disease outbreak, every single dig from Gov. Andrew Cuomo — there have been relatively few Democrats who he can consistently count on to preach the gospel of de Blasio.

The spat also played out over the city's recent Legionnaires» disease outbreak, when the administrations held dueling press conferences, and was on full display when Cuomo hosted Vice President Joe Biden at a rally in the city on the minimum wage, one of de Blasio's key issues, and the mayor was nowhere to be seen.

«Cooling towers have been implicated in several outbreaks of Legionnaire's Disease in recent years.

Daniel Jolley said: «This research is timely in the face of declining vaccination rates and recent outbreaks of vaccinated - against diseases in the UK, such as measles.

The review calls for improved global surveillance strategies to combat the emergence of infectious diseases such as the recent outbreak of Ebola in West Africa that has claimed the lives of 122 people in the countries of Guinea and Liberia.

There's also a more recent foray into the study of complex biological systems, from the population - wide dynamics of a disease outbreak to the way human bodies align their functions to a biological clock.

«Because the bacterium that causes TB can lie dormant in someone's lung for months or even years before it causes disease, we had no way of knowing whether a TB case we have just diagnosed was a recent infection — suggesting the outbreak is still going on — or whether the person was infected years ago.»

Recent developments in surveillance technology could enable a swifter, more effective response to potentially deadly outbreaks of disease, a study has found.

A team of infectious disease experts from the University of Edinburgh and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute reviewed the global response to recent outbreaks, including Ebola, swine flu and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

Closer to home, recent outbreaks of fungal diseases in the forests of western North America have been linked to warmer and wetter conditions at specific times of year.

Yesterday, director Li Liming of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resigned, along with several lower - ranking officials, after a report by a panel of experts blamed China's most recent outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome on a series of flaws at the CDC's National Institute of Virology in southern Beijing.

Due to the current spread of vaccine - preventable diseases, including the most recent measles outbreaks in California and Berlin, Suk notes that the issue of vaccine hesitancy «appears to be increasingly pressing and politicized in many parts of the world.»

The high mortality rate of the disease, estimated at around 60 % in the most recent outbreak, made it one of the most deadly infectious diseases in the world.

During every recent human outbreak of the Ebola virus — which often causes victims to bleed to death — gorilla carcasses have turned up in nearby forests, but scientists were uncertain about the extent of the disease's impact.

Anyamba, A., K. J. Linthicum, J. L. Small, K. M. Collins, C. J. Tucker, E. W. Pak, S. C. Britch, J. R. Eastman, J. E. Pinzon, and K. L. Russell, 2012: Climate teleconnections and recent patterns of human and animal disease outbreaks.

The number of schoolchildren not vaccinated against childhood diseases in Texas is growing rapidly, which means that the state may see its first measles outbreaks in the winter or spring of 2018, Hotez predicted in a recent article in PLOS Medicine.

Scientists have shown that the first appearance of wheat stem rust disease in the U.K. in nearly 60 years, which occurred in 2013, was caused by the same virulent fungal strain responsible for recent wheat stem rust outbreaks in Ethiopia, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden.

Still, some recent outbreaks of livestock / wildlife disease in Montana have invited speculation about climate's role, although without definitive conclusions regarding causation.

In recent years, major outbreaks of the disease have cropped up in places where TB had long been forgotten.

The recent outbreaks of whooping cough in the state have prompted North Carolina health officials to make the vaccines against the disease available for free to anyone age 7 and older, regardless of whether they have health insurance.

tomato collected during a recent outbreak of bacterial speck disease in New York.

tomato collected during a recent outbreak of bacterial speck disease in New York; and 2) Identifying and characterizing immunity - associated genes from wild relatives of tomato.

This well - researched, clearly written title covers many aspects of this disease without sensationalizing its dangers and is particularly up - to - date when discussing the recent epidemic, the economic circumstances that may have led to the outbreak, and the overblown response of worldwide media.

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.

As examples of specific preventive care recommendations, Dr. Alton cites recent outbreaks in Vermont of laboratory diagnosed canine influenza, newly emergent cases of leptospirosis, and prevalence of arthropod - borne disease.

Heavy rain events may also pose a potential health risk; one recent study found that about half of all waterborne disease outbreaks in the U.S. (between 1948 and 1994) were linked to days of very heavy rain.

Anyamba, A., K. J. Linthicum, J. L. Small, K. M. Collins, C. J. Tucker, E. W. Pak, S. C. Britch, J. R. Eastman, J. E. Pinzon, and K. L. Russell, 2012: Climate teleconnections and recent patterns of human and animal disease outbreaks.

The recent outbreak in Europe of the «blue tongue» disease (cattle, sheep, goats, etc. are affected) has been blamed on climate change due to global warming.

Recent new stories and rumors about vaccines have led to outbreaks of deadly diseases once assumed to be eliminated.

Immunology and addressing infectious disease outbreaks are also becoming the focus of much research activity, an example being the recent ebola epidemic in West Africa.

In response to the largest outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in recent history, the New York City Council recently passed legislation that requires building owners to conduct quarterly inspections of cooling towers, which have been indicated as t...

In response to the largest outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in recent history, the New York City Council recently passed legislation that requires building owners to conduct quarterly inspections of cooling towers...