Sentences with phrase «than any disease outbreak»

Mystery still surrounds the greatest pandemic, in 1918, which probably killed more people than any disease outbreak since the Black Death of 1347 — 1351.

Not exact matches

The outbreak of Zika, a mosquito - borne disease, was detected last year in Brazil, where it has been linked to more than 1,700 cases of microcephaly, a birth defect marked by small head size that can lead to severe developmental problems.

The difference can not be explained by an outbreak of Dutch Disease in Canada, as the Australian dollar has appreciated faster than the Canadian dollar over the last decade.

More than a dozen kindergartens in Vietnam have closed to deal with an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease that has killed 109 children and sickening more than 52,000 this year.

A NATION - WIDE outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) could strip more than $ 50 billion from Australia's livestock industry over 10 years, according to a new costing model from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES).

The Legislature may still seek to put their own stamp on combating Legionnaires» disease after an outbreak killed 12 people and sickened more than 100 others in the Bronx, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Wednesday told reporters in Buffalo.

The outbreak has seen some countries urging couples not to get pregnant, while the US Centers for Disease Control has warned pregnant women to avoid travelling to 22 affected nations, including Brazil which has reported more than 4000 cases of the virus since October 2015.

Much recent attention has focused on Ebola, but few people know about an epidemic that cause more chaos and heartbreak than virtually any disease outbreak in modern history.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, facing criticism that their political infighting could damage their response to the Legionnaires» outbreak in the Bronx, agreed to craft joint regulations for responding to the disease that has killed 12 and infected more than 100.

He cited homelessness, the criminal justice system and mental health care as issues that The Bronx continues to struggle with, and although he criticized the city for its handling of the homelessness issue, his overall tone was milder than in his 2016 speech, when he hinted at a run for mayor and said the city had «failed» the borough during its outbreak of Legionnaires» disease.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, facing criticism that their political infighting could damage their response to the Legionnaires» outbreak in the Bronx, agreed Tuesday to craft joint regulations for responding to the disease that has killed 12 and infected more than 100.

In August, Diaz Jr. reportedly phoned Cuomo, with whom he has had a long - standing relationship, asking him to help with a Legionnaires» Disease outbreak that claimed more than ten lives because he felt the de Blasio administration's response was not effective.

«This is the deadliest outbreak of a foodborne disease that we've identified in more than a decade,» Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC, said at a news conference today.

«We found that in each of the regions we could analyze, Zika virus circulated undetected for many months, up to a year or longer, before the first locally transmitted cases were reported,» says Bronwyn MacInnis, an infectious disease geneticist at the Broad Institute, in Cambridge, Mass. «This means the outbreak in these regions was under way much earlier than previously thought.»

The rare autoimmune disease can lead to paralysis, and recently it appears to be occurring more frequently than usual within at least eight countries and territories reporting Zika outbreaks.

Their mathematical model also predicted how the Disneyland outbreak helped push California back from the tipping point by making parents more afraid of the disease than the vaccine.

Analysis of social media and Internet news reports can enable researchers to track a disease outbreak faster than conventional medical notifications.

To understand why the long - spined urchins have not returned to the reef more than 30 years later, Scripps scientists Katie Cramer and Dick Norris analyzed the amount of fossilized urchin spines that accumulated in reef sediment layers over the past 3,000 years to paint a picture of life on the reef before it was altered from the disease outbreak and human activities such as fishing and pollution.

Outbreaks of chikungunya have occurred in numerous areas, including Africa, Asia, the Caribbean islands, and as of September 2015 more than 7,000 cases have been reported in Mexico, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Networking the devices could allow health authorities to save lives by spotting disease outbreaks earlier than ever before

Health care officials and aid workers attempting to trace the progression of the Ebola virus disease outbreak that has claimed more than 2,800 lives so far (pdf) have come to rely heavily on a handful of disease - monitoring Web sites that act as pivotal hubs for processing information.

The same disease caused a deadly outbreak 26 years ago when more than 700 dead bottlenose dolphins were found from New Jersey to Florida between June 1987 and May 1988.

The agent belongs to the coronavirus group, which includes several common cold viruses but also the virus that causes SARS, a severe disease that killed more than 700 people during a fast - moving global outbreak in 2002 and 2003 before it was contained.

Genetic research helps to explain why tracing the source of an outbreak of Legionnaires» disease that claimed four lives has proven to be more complicated than scientists hoped.

Chiu pointed to a number of serious and unexpected animal - to - human disease transmissions over the last 10 years, including SARS in 2003, the H1N1 influenza in 2009, and the current outbreak of H7N9 avian influenza, which already has resulted in more than 20 deaths in China.

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.

Although some people do not get their children vaccinated, and such children are at least eight times more likely to get the disease than those who receive all five recommended doses they are not the driving force behind the large scale outbreaks or epidemics, says Pawloski.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has reported more than a thousand dengue cases in Madeira in the outbreak in 2012.

More than 11,000 deaths occurred as a result of that outbreak, with a high mortality rate of the disease estimated at around 60 per cent.

Some individuals may be better suited than others to work in high - risk job placements during an infectious disease outbreak because they are more likely to have an adequate response to a vaccine, or because their genotype is associated with a lower risk of developing severe infection.

Rapid and large - scale sequencing of pathogen genomes, which provides stronger and more accurate evidence than was previously possible for source and contact tracing, is being applied widely for disease outbreak management [4]- most recently and publicly in the case of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa [5], [6].

Predation events, like outbreaks of crown - of - thorns starfish, and disease outbreaks probably require surveys be completed more than once to assess the progression of the outbreak.

The last outbreaks occurred in 2009 and 2010 in Key West — before that, the disease hadn't struck Florida in more than 70 years.

Virus genome analysis has played a bigger role in understanding the West African Ebola epidemic than for any other infectious disease outbreak for two reasons: modern advances in sequencing technologies and scientists who were unusually willing to share data.

Though early in the season, the Centers for Disease Control has already alerted more than a dozen states, many in the South and Southwest, of local flu outbreaks.

Many veterinarians and shelter managers say this summer's outbreak is as bad or worse than any since 1978, when the disease was first identified.

The worst outbreak in memory of a fatal dog disease has forced the Orange County animal - control department to euthanize more than two dozen dogs and halt a busy adoption program.

The incubation is longer than other viruses (around 3 weeks) so vaccination after an outbreak amongst a group of dogs is usually too late — since they would all probably have contracted the disease.

Somewhat surprisingly, the idea of a zombie outbreak seems far more likely and believable (even during Victorian times) than Moriarty creating robot versions of himself, or even worse, having his dead body injected with the zombie disease yet still managing to hold onto his personality and mentality.

In 2005, during the hottest average decade on record, 8 low - wind conditions known as «the doldrums» combined with very high ocean temperatures to cause massive coral bleaching in the Virgin Islands.9 This was followed by a particularly severe outbreak of at least five coral diseases in the Virgin Islands, resulting in a decline in coral cover of about 60 percent.9 There is some indication that higher ocean temperatures — between 86 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit (30 to 35 degrees Celsius)-- promote optimal growth of several coral pathogens.9 Other research showed that elkhorn coral post-bleaching had larger disease lesions than unbleached specimens, suggesting that bleaching may increase the corals» susceptibility to disease.9, 10

Systems that monitor for early outbreaks of disease are also typically much less expensive than treating communities once outbreaks take hold.153, 168,289

The observed global greening has occurred in spite of all the many real and imagined assaults on Earth's vegetation that have occurred over the past several decades, including wildfires, disease, pest outbreaks, deforestation, and climatic changes in temperature and precipitation, more than compensating for any of the negative effects these phenomena may have had on the global biosphere.

In all, 80 percent of corals bleached and more than 40 percent were killed by a combination of bleaching and disease outbreaks at several sites in the Caribbean.

By 2085, an estimated 5.2 billion people — more than 3 billion additional people worldwide — are projected to be at risk for dengue because of climate change - induced increases in humidity that contribute to the disease's spread, based on models that use observed relationships between weather patterns and dengue outbreaks.6 Researchers in Australia and New Zealand calculated that climate change is projected to increase the range and risk of dengue in these countries.

Disease outbreaks and terrorist attacks during the past year have caused many travelers to give more thought to protecting themselves than they have in the past, including buying travel insurance.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa first hit the headlines in March last year and since then more lives have been lost to the disease than in the entire period since its discovery in 1976.