Sentences with phrase «transmission of the disease»

Only about 15 % of bites result in transmission of the disease.

Early removal of the tick can help prevent transmission of these diseases.

When the vampire bat bites there is a risk of transmission of diseases such as rabies.

About one in seven people actually dies from infection, but there has been no known transmission of the disease from person to person in 90 years.

* Please make sure that your dog is current on vaccinations to help prevent the potential transmission of disease.

We recommend leukemia vaccine for all outdoor cats, as the opportunity for horizontal transmission of the disease is much higher than the likelihood of problems from the vaccine.

Another danger of fleas for cats is infestation of the home and possible transmission of disease to humans through sharing a living space.

Using that data, they developed mathematical models to understand how a vaccine rollout would affect people in countries where transmission of the disease is high, moderate or low.

The mode of transmission of this disease is the mosquito.

Another danger of fleas and ticks for cats is infestation of the home and possible transmission of disease to humans through sharing a living space.

The animal welfare organisation launched its project last May with its sister charity Mission Rabies to vaccinate and treat the dog population in Blantyre to prevent transmission of the disease between dogs and people.

Intact cats will breed and fight causing transmission of diseases such as FeLV and FIV between them and to their offspring.

The second is that there are important spillover benefits (or «positive externalities») when a person uses a bed net, because the net not only gives personal protection to the user but also helps to block transmission of the disease within the community.

To prevent transmission of disease by the thermometer, we cover it with a disposable, lubricated sheath.

Leptospira vaccines appear to have little effect on transmission of the disease in animal populations either.

It can take 36 to 48 hours for transmission of the disease - causing bacteria to occur, so if a tick is removed in the first 24 hours, chances of infection are lower.

Florida officials yesterday announced four more cases of Floridians who likely contracted the mosquito - borne virus in the relatively small, one - square - mile Miami neighborhood of Wynwood, the only area in the country reporting active transmissions of the disease.

Meanwhile, First Lady Rebecca Akufo - Addo has called on pregnant women to get tested for HIV to help prevent mother - to - child transmission of the disease.

The Stern Review, an excellent new report by the U.K. Treasury, makes clear that the consequences could be catastrophic: melting of ice sheets, with a huge rise of ocean levels; massive crop failures; increased transmission of diseases; and potentially calamitous effects on ecosystem services.

Other countries, like the Netherlands — IPV - using countries — when they suffered an outbreak due to importation of the virus, they used OPV to stop transmission of the disease.

«Despite having good treatments available, current reports suggest that fewer than half of individuals who need therapy are actually getting appropriate HIV medicine to control their virus, leading to more transmission of disease,» says lead study author Maunank Shah, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Malaria causes the bodies of its human hosts to emit specific odours from the skin that make the hosts even more attractive to mosquitoes, which invites further bites and risks infection of more mosquitoes and wider transmission of the disease.

Throughout their study, Salkeld and Antolin found that grasshopper mice and coyotes that scavenge plague - killed prairie dogs can speed transmission of the disease by spreading the disease - carrying fleas.

However, the modelling work also offers some encouraging news: the airborne transmission of the disease from East African countries directly to South Asia is highly unlikely, with transmission events possible only on less than one day a year.

There are many factors involved in this seeming decline in health — increases in population, crowding, living in close proximity with animals and the resultant transmission of diseases, but certainly the change in diet was a major factor.

With advances in HIV treatments making chances of transmission of the disease so low, Dr Rosevear said the gay community in particular had, once again, developed an increasing predilection for condom - free sex.

The Network Disease includes attempted transmission to people who are already ill (and this could also be seen as transmission to people who have become immune), and thus provides a mechanism which shows how transmission of a disease might be constrained.

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If structures for out - of - cage time such as play towers are placed within cat rooms, ideally place them at least 5 feet from the front of cages to prevent droplet transmission of disease.

Making matters worse, feeding stations attract all manner of wildlife and allows for cross species transmission of disease, particularly Rabies.

«Since nearly all dogs and cats are at risk of picking up fleas and ticks and transmission of the disease occurs within as little as 24 to 48 hours, preventative measures are key.

Because Greyhounds are transported across state lines for racing and training purposes and to adoptive homes, and the fact that they are used as blood donors, there is a much greater possibility for widespread transmission of these diseases, that were once thought to be more geographically isolated.

Mosquitos are the primary vector in transmission of the disease from forest monkeys to humans and in person - to - person transmission.

Edling is the head of the PIJAC Zoonoses Committee, providing health and care information to the industry and the general public to prevent the potential transmission of disease from pets to humans.

However, careful thought is still needed in assessing the risks of potential transmission of disease from animals to humans via transplantation.

The results could help spur the development of antimalarial drugs with the potential to cure and prevent transmission of the disease in humans.

This suggests that plants may play an important role in environmental prion contamination and the horizontal transmission of the disease.

You're reducing the transmission of the disease.»

Microscopic tearing of tissue caused by unlubricated friction increases the chance of transmission of diseases.

Contact with live poultry infected with H7N9 flu appears to be the main means of transmission of this disease to humans, which has affected over 200 people since last spring, killing over 50.

This capacity for expanded milk sharing may increase the risk associated with the transmission of disease and contaminants (e.g. drugs and alcohol).

«It is believed that humans are responsible for 95 per cent of the transmission of the disease.

The period from July through September is when the transmission of the disease appears most common, with persons under 15 years of age and over 50 years at greatest risk of developing severe symptoms of EEE.

The National Institute of Drug Abuse has found that increasing access to medication assisted treatment decreases opioid use, deaths related to overdoses, crime and the transmission of diseases, Boyle said, though the approach is not being used enough.

«Given the wide variation in the transmission of the disease — endemic areas, areas of low endemicity, hyperendemic areas, and sometimes these strata all occurring in the same country — we prefer to look at each country separately without aggregates over the entire continent,» Buj says.

The study's lead author, Patricia Lopes from the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, says that previous research in wild animals has generally ignored how this change in behaviour may affect social contacts in a group and how, in turn, these changes can impact the transmission of a disease.

Researchers at LSTM have been working with colleagues in the NTD modelling consortium to look at the role that heterogeneity in mosquito biting plays within the transmission of disease and what impact vector control has on that heterogeneity.