Sentences with phrase «several recent outbreaks»

In the modern world, humans wield considerable control over their environment — even over the diseases they face, as several recent outbreaks attest.

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

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

Several factors may be contributing to recent whooping cough outbreaks, but parents» refusal to immunize their children is one

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.

Several camel coronaviruses occur in the Middle East, and a recombinant lineage is linked to the recent human outbreaks of MERS.

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.

Universities in Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois and Virginia have had recent mumps outbreaks, and pertussis, or whooping cough, has been increasing for several years.

Several Princeton and Wilson School alumni have been directly involved with global health efforts and battling the recent Ebola outbreak.

Several recent studies conclude that raw milk is a high - risk food, which poses a risk for outbreaks 150 times greater than pasteurized milk (Langer et al., 2012).

According to climate scientist Michael Mann, it's very possible that several of the recent severe and costly extreme weather outbreaks are linked to changes in the jet stream he identified in a recent study.

Following several recent intense outbreaks of fires — in June 2013, March 2014 and November 2014 — the country is now on track to experience more fires this year than it did during the 2006 fire season, one of its worst on record.

In recent years, many have expressed concerns that global terrestrial NPP should be falling due to the many real (and imagined) assaults on Earth's vegetation that have occurred over the past several decades — including wildfires, disease, pest outbreaks, and deforestation, as well as overly - hyped changes in temperature and precipitation.