Sentences with phrase «vector borne»

In the last one year, There has been a 25 % rise in claims for vector borne diseases.

Diseases like Dengue and Malaria are vector borne and are called communicable diseases.

Vector borne diseases like Dengue and Malaria are causing customers to claim their Health Insurance very often

Even for a particular impact such as human health, temperature and precipitation both play important roles by influencing malnutrition, vector borne diseases, etc. (Campbell - Lendrum and Woodruff 2007).

Paul Reiter is the world's foremost authority on vector borne diseases, Niils Axel - Morner is the world's foremost authority on sea - level change, and Vincent Gray is the world's foremost authority on hurricanes.

Because climate change is likely to cause death to many, if not millions of people, through heat stroke, vector borne disease, and flooding, annihilate many island nations by rising seas, cause billions of dollars in property damage in intense storms, and destroy the ability of hundreds of millions to feed themselves in hotter drier climates, the duty to refrain from activities which could cause global warming is extraordinarily strong even in the face of scientific uncertainty about consequences.

You know, the good old scare mongering stuff we've heard from green lobby groups, etc.: increased vector borne diseases, migrations of unpleasant animals as well as millions of «climate refugees» escaping torrid temperatures, etc. etc..

Which forms the basis for the IPCC claim of high climate sensitivity (mean value of 3.2 C), resulting in significant global warming (up to 6.4 C warming by 2100), «extreme high sea levels», increased «heat waves», increased «heavy rains» and floods, increased «droughts», increased «intense tropical cyclones» — which, in turn, lead to crop failures, disappearance of glaciers now supplying drinking water to millions, increased vector borne diseases, etc. (for short, potentially catastrophic AGW — or «CAGW»).

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Climate change not only threatens more people, animals, and ecological systems around the world than the Gulf spill; it promises to be a problem that will continually wreck havoc for centuries while harming the world's poorest and most vulnerable people with drought, floods, killer storms, rising sea levels, and vector borne disease.

He has has spent more than three decades studying vector - transmitted pathogens and co-directs the CVM's Vector Borne Diseases Laboratory.

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As examples, students» at all academic levels and from many national and international locations, have had the experience of working in a research laboratory or have participated in a focused research project related to vector borne infectious diseases of companion animals or wildlife species.

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Edward Breitschwerdt DVM, Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Vector Borne Diseases Diagnostic Laboratory, North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, is the author of more than 150 scientific publications, predominantly in the field of vector - borne diseases.

Wildlife Zoonoses and Vector Borne Disease Research Group, Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), Weybridge, Surrey KT15 3NB, UK.

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«We are seeing an unprecedented uptick in vector borne diseases and we are not sure why,» says Dr. Peter Hotez, dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine (who was not involved in the recent studies).

«The importance of heterogeneity on the management of vector borne diseases.»

Vector borne disease control often relies on universal distribution of interventions, such as long - lasting insecticide treated bednets for malaria and mass drug administration for filariasis.

The other fellows were mostly based in the USA and worked on the microbiota and / or a diverse range of infections including neglected tropical diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, vector borne diseases, food borne pathogens and anti-microbial resistance.

In 2013, India's National Vector Borne Diseases Control Program reported that the country had experienced an annual average of 20,474 dengue cases and 132 dengue - related deaths since 2007, but infectious disease experts believe those official numbers likely reflect only a small fraction of actual cases.

To do this, the same 250 sequences were inserted into a vector bearing a hairpin structure.

Using microinjection of adeno - associated viral vector bearing a transgene encoding FKBP1b into the hippocampus of aged male rats, we assessed the critical prediction that overexpressing FKBP1b should reverse Ca2 + - mediated manifestations of brain aging.

Not exact matches

Where there are ticks, there comes diseases,» Lyle Petersen, director of the CDC's Division of Vector - Borne Diseases told Reuters.

Suffolk County Legislator Ed Romaine convened the 16 - member Tick & Vector - Borne Disease Task Force earlier this fall in an attempt to focus on the health crisis facing the East End.

Republican Congressman Chris Gibson's bipartisan legislation requires the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control to audit available research on vector - borne diseases like Lyme disease.

The Vector - Borne Disease Research Transparency and Accountability Act of 2014 would form working groups on at least two high - incidence diseases to develop a scientific framework on how to move forward to fill gaps in research and patient care.

In an effort to combat tick - borne illnesses, county Legislature Jay Schneiderman (I - Montauk) has introduced new legislation to step up pressure on Suffolk County Vector Control, which is in charge of controlling the spread of insect - borne diseases.

The proposed law would require the Suffolk County Vector Control to submit an annual plan that indicates steps being taken to reduce the incidence of tick - borne illnesses — including work to be done, active measures being taken and an analysis to determine the effectiveness of the program.

More broadly, the researchers call «for additional research on arthropod - borne pathogens whose vectors share similar blood - feeding strategies and may also impair endothelial barrier function.»

According to microbiologist Barbara Johnson, one of the top Lyme disease experts at the CDC's Division of Vector - Borne Diseases in Fort Collins, Colo., STARI is relatively benign, presenting only with the rash and flulike symptoms of early Lyme.

Lyme borreliosis, or Lyme disease — the most common vector - borne illness transmitted by insects — is prevalent in the Northeast and upper Midwest regions of the United States.

Many of these diseases can get imported and established before we're even aware of them, adds Kerry Clark, an expert in vector - borne diseases at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.

In the United States, some of the most alarming outbreaks are occurring in the suburbs, where rising temperatures may help explain the spike in such tick - borne illnesses as babesiosis; hga (human granulocytic anaplasmosis), a potentially lethal flulike infection; and Lyme disease, the most common vector - borne disease in this country.

«Vector - borne diseases are rapidly changing their distribution and frequency,» says medical entomologist Lyle Petersen, director of the Division of Vector - borne Diseases for the CDC.

Preliminary results of the study were presented at a World Health Organization (WHO) evidence review group meeting, while UNITAID has issued a call for further research into the use of endectocide class drugs, of which ivermectin is currently the only one registered for human use, as new vector control tools in the fight against malaria and other mosquito borne disease.

«We've been seeing growing evidence of the association between Zika and congenital central nervous system malformations, not just microcephaly, since the first cases were picked up,» says Wim Van Bortel, senior expert on vector - borne diseases at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Solna, Sweden.

Kacey Ernst's primary research interests are in determining how human - environment interactions alter risk of vector - borne disease transmission.

«This response has been the most complex outbreak response for CDC,» said Ben Beard, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Vector - Borne Diseases, in an email.

He has contributed opinions as an expert on vector - borne disease emergence for the European Food Safety Authority and the Global Strategic Alliances for the Coordination of Research on the Major Infectious Diseases of Animals and Zoonoses (STAR - IDAZ), is a member of the MACSUR European network on the impacts of climate change on food production via disease ecology, and is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.

Marcia Castro's research focuses on infectious diseases (particularly mosquito borne), environmental change and health, environmental management for vector control, spatial patterns of disease transmission, and infant & child mortality.

«Disease - bearing mosquitoes gain from shrinkage of green spaces: Mosquitoes belonging to vector species make up for seven out of the eight most common species found in municipal parks.»

CARMICHAEL REPLIES: Vaccinating animals is an intriguing idea and one that is clearly more applicable for vector - borne diseases with nonhuman reservoirs (for example, vaccinating dogs to control both canine and human visceral leishmaniasis transmission).

While certainly not a panacea for mosquito - borne disease, this research does suggest new directions for controlling these important disease vectors, especially in places where introduced species are utilized heavily.

«Anywhere with these vectors — Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and to some degree Aedes albopictus — could get this virus and have local transmission,» says Erin Staples, a medical epidemiologist and expert in mosquito - borne diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Malaria is caused by a handful of species of parasites in the genus Plasmodium through the bite of mosquitos and remains a widespread vector - borne infectious disease, sickening almost half a billion people every year around the planet.

Dengue Branch, Division of Vector - Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan 00971, Puerto Rico.

Bring back DDT, they demand, and let it be sprayed on the inner walls of houses, where it would kill vectors of malaria and other insect - borne diseases like dengue and typhus.

With viral epidemics such as AIDS taking a huge toll, insect - borne diseases have been «pretty far back on the burner» in New York, says John Edman, director of the Center for Vector - Borne Disease Research at the University of California, Dborne diseases have been «pretty far back on the burner» in New York, says John Edman, director of the Center for Vector - Borne Disease Research at the University of California, DBorne Disease Research at the University of California, Davis.