Sentences with phrase «widespread outbreaks of»

The academies added that more cooperation is needed to cut the risk of widespread outbreaks of infectious diseases.

Viruses and parasites pose a threat to the blood supply as evidenced by the recent widespread outbreaks of Chikungunya and Zika viruses.

Zika was known for 60 years as a mild virus that appeared sporadically, but since 2007, two troubling shifts have taken place, Dye said: Zika virus now results in widespread outbreaks of hundreds or thousands of cases, and it is associated with neurological disorders like microcephaly and Guillain - Barre syndrome, a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks the nerves.

One can not deny the widespread outbreak of schism, disagreement, and infighting within the various churches as a consequence of Revivalism.

There was no widespread outbreak of panic across the United States in response to Orson Welles» 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells» The War of the Worlds.

And if you've hiked in the Rockies since 2009, you've likely hiked through a dead and dying forest, felled by a widespread outbreak of the mountain pine beetle.

In March 2015 a different strain of influenza of avian - origin H3N2 caused a widespread outbreak of respiratory disease in pet dogs and dogs in shelters.

Perhaps there should be an investigation of the drinking water in the community to see what suddenly caused the widespread outbreak of such a rare condition.

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«Germs with unusual antibiotic resistance widespread in U.S: Ramped - up CDC strategy helps providers stop spread of new germs, prevents large outbreaks.»

For every extra zero latched on to already ludicrous inflation figures, we are greeted with the disheartening news of cholera outbreaks, tortured opposition and widespread poverty, matched with images of a defiant president, damning a Western colonial threat that has long since perished.

Zucker is also requiring local health officials to develop their own Zika action plans to be used in the case of a widespread outbreak.

In general, examining the potential effects of other flaviviruses on pregnant women and their developing fetuses is difficult, because outbreaks have been sporadic and less widespread than with Zika.

The potential for a widespread pellagra outbreak surged in flood - ravaged areas of Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

Although that began prior to 2006, what did almost precisely coincide with the initial outbreaks of CCD was the emergence of widespread commercial treatment of corn seed with neonicotinoid insecticides.

The outbreak of deaths could have been tied to an increase in the number of grinding machines in the villages in November of 2009, «contributing to widespread contamination,» the researchers reported.

Although Ebola outbreaks are relatively rare — fewer than 1000 cases have been reported worldwide — the virus poses a widespread threat, as Thomas Folks of the CDC points out in a commentary accompanying the paper in Nature Medicine.

He believes the outbreak's spread will almost certainly cause Japan in the next few days to go from a designation of an early stage of community transmission to widespread community transmission in its own pandemic preparedness plan.

«The widespread movement of the Ebola virus within Liberia, due to a high rate of migration in the country, is likely to have played an important role in the magnitude and longevity of the Liberian portion of the Ebola outbreak,» Ladner says.

It has been just over a year since a widespread salmonella outbreak in the the US led to the recall of half a billion eggs.

The April 2009 H1N1 outbreak at a Queens, New York, high school was widespread but did not cause severe disease, according to an analysis conducted by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

This virus first reached the United States in late 2006; fortunately, experts think that chances of a widespread outbreak are slim.

Though most of its running time is confined to a massive shopping mall, Dawn's first third effectively hits home the widespread nature of the zombie outbreak, with scenes like the apartment raid by an overzealous SWAT team visually establishing the reach of the outbreak.

Tonight, Danish - born Nicolas Winding Refn («Only God Forgives,» «Drive») proved to be a blood brother in infamy with French director Olivier Assayas («Personal Shopper»), winning this competition's second outbreak of widespread booing with the French / USA / Danish production «The Neon Demon.»

«This outbreak of cold has the potential of producing the most widespread below - zero temperature pattern of any of the arctic outbreaks this winter,» he predicts.

New York Magazine reported on the issue in its February 2015 edition, noting that widespread vaccine avoidance can trigger outbreaks of diseases that were once thought to be under control, such as distemper.

The dog influenza outbreak of 2015 was a serious and widespread disease that inflicted illness to many dogs in Chicago.

The virus is widespread in some parts of Asia and is causing outbreaks in various locations of the United States, especially in shelters.

Veterinarians and staff must be aware of the potentially widespread and serious effects of a Dog Flu outbreak.

Conservation Status Since the island scrub - jay occurs only on one island that makes it susceptible to any major disaster, a disease outbreak, or widespread land - use changes, any of which could potentially extirpate the species or cause a severe population decline.

The trait, he proposed, comes to the surface when such people confront strong messaging on the need for emissions reductions amid enduringly murky science on what's driving some particular extreme environmental phenomenon in the world — whether a brief period of widespread melting on the Greenland ice sheet, a potent drought, a tornado outbreak or the extreme event of the moment, the hybrid nor» easter / hurricane known on Twitter as #Frankenstorm.

... AN INTENSE OUTBREAK OF TORNADOES AND WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED LATER TODAY OVER PORTIONS OF KS / OK / TX... [Read the rest.]

The US now faces the largest outbreak of whooping cough in decades, in part because of widespread denial of the benefits of vaccinations (Rosenau, 2012).

Because of its cold - adapted features and rapid warming, climate change impacts on Alaska are already pronounced, including earlier spring snowmelt, reduced sea ice, widespread glacier retreat, warmer permafrost, drier landscapes, and more extensive insect outbreaks and wildfire, as described below.

Furious volcanic blasts have been historically associated with climate change: an eruption of Mt Tambora in what is now Indonesia in 1815 was followed by Europe's notorious «year without a summer» in 1816, along with widespread harvest failure, famine and outbreaks of disease.

«Recent climate changes in this region may have had substantial impact on the carbon balance of Canadian boreal forests as a result of increased fire frequency, an unprecedented expansion of insect outbreaks, and widespread drought - induced tree mortality,» the authors write, but focused their study on drought.

HTH Worldwide Specific Statement: As of Friday, April 24th, 2009, the Swine Flu outbreak has received widespread media attention.