Sentences with phrase «spread during outbreaks»

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During the 2009 H1N1 outbreak, one report estimated that 8 million Americans showed up to work and spread the illness to another 7 million coworkers.

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.

During the outbreak, the disease spread over a 400 - kilometer stretch along Florida's coast and hit 16 other coral species.

Although Brazil is the only country to report a spike in microcephaly during the current outbreak, French Polynesia in 2014 saw a rise in this rare disorder concurrent with viral spread, Chan said.

The findings suggest that the Ebola virus spread to Liberia multiple times from neighboring countries early during the outbreak, but the majority of Liberian cases are attributable to a single introduction of the virus, which rapidly spread throughout the country and subsequently refueled the ongoing outbreak in Guinea.

Initially, the Malaysian authorities thought they were dealing with an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis, which is spread by mosquitoes and occurs in pig - rearing areas during the wet season.

Farmers often vaccinate healthy birds during slow - spreading outbreaks, leading to the possibility that chickens might be infected by two different vaccines, which is necessary for them to recombine.

Genomic data about individuals and groups might be consulted during disease outbreaks, in planning for public health programs, or in developing new or assessing existing public health policies; for instance, where are the hotspots for infection (and are these associated with specific pathogen or host genomics), where should vaccines be deployed most urgently, which therapies should be offered to which genomic populations, and where should treatment programs, isolation policies or public health control programs be implemented to halt the spread of infections?

Since you are more likely to spread the infection during an outbreak, it is also important to take some measures to protect your partner from contracting the illness.

«Dead Rising» (working title) Feature - length project and sequel to «Dead Rising: Watchtower» Premieres Spring 2016 A sequel to the popular «Dead Rising: Watchtower,» which takes place during a large - scale Zombie outbreak when a mandatory government vaccine fails to stop the infection from spreading.

Although this disease can be spread at any time, incidents of tularemia tend to be higher during warmer months, when temperatures are favorable for tick outbreaks.

From about 1999 to 2003, the outbreak was primarily confined to Canada's Vancouver Island, but during 2004 to 2009, instances of the disease spread to the mainland coast of British Columbia, and then southward to coastal Washington and Oregon — all locations with a relatively similar climate of wet, mild winters... If global warming were to blame, the disease ought to be moving northward into regions where it would have otherwise been too cold in years past.