Sentences with phrase «with outbreaks of the virus»

With the outbreak of viruses like Zika, chikungunya, and dengue on the rise, public health officials are desperate to stop transmission.

It is worth noting that two - thirds of Republicans support investing more money in research on the virus and investing more money on preventing the spread of Zika in the U.S., but slightly less than half support helping women in areas in the U.S. with outbreaks of the virus access reproductive health services.

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The agency color - codes the severity of the outbreak using a legend of bright green for states with minimal flu activity, rising to deep red for those inundated by the virus.

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The topic of preventing the Ebola virus in New York State became part of the Governor's race, when the Republican candidate proposed that flights be banned from countries with Ebola outbreaks.

World authorities are fighting to limit the effects of the virus, but 103 people have already died in Mexico, where the current outbreak took place, with 1,600 people infected.

The president said government was prepared and had put measures in place to deal with any possible future outbreak of the virus in the country.

In another example, Epstein's laboratory at NYU is working with the city's public health department to model potential outbreaks of Zika, a mosquito - borne virus that can lead to catastrophic birth defects.

The virus is transmitted from person to person through contact with infected blood or bodily fluids, but the origin of each outbreak is ultimately linked to wildlife.

In fact, the pattern looked like that of a protracted hospital outbreak in which patients had been infecting each other over many years, with viruses becoming isolated, building up very different signatures of mutations, and reinfecting patients via surgical equipment or blood supplies.

With increasing population growth in West Africa, the frequency of contact between humans and natural Ebola virus hosts such as bats will likely rise, potentially leading to more catastrophic outbreaks.

Ebola virus causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates with high mortality rates and continues to emerge in new geographic locations, including West Africa, the site of the largest outbreak to date.

High - throughput molecular detection of hemorrhagic fever virus threats with applications for outbreak settings

More than 28,600 people were infected with the virus in West Africa during the outbreak, and 11,300 of those people died, Bowen said.

This suggests that a greater understanding of the mechanisms that drive inter-pandemic influenza epidemics may increase our capacity to predict the timing of major outbreaks associated with novel pandemic influenza viruses in the future.

With redoubled efforts and improved access to insecure areas, national and global officials are optimistic they can quash the new outbreak quickly and still meet the goal of stopping worldwide transmission of the virus in 2016.

In fact, on 11 May, the DRC's Ministry of Health notified the World Health Organization of a new outbreak of the virus in that country, with 37 suspected cases in seven villages so far, and several deaths.

In the current outbreak, there has been only one instance of local Zika virus transmission in the country (a case of apparent sexual contact with an infected individual in Texas).

The finding of virus in the brain could also be important, since the most devastating impact of the current outbreak in Brazil appears to be children of infected mothers born with microcephaly — abnormally small heads and, in some cases, incomplete brain development.

All influenza viruses ultimately come from birds, and the paper begins the somewhat operatic and knotty story of this outbreak's origins with an H1N1 first isolated in swine in 1930, which itself was a close relative of the virus that caused the 1918 pandemic in humans.

The next Marburg virus outbreak is likely to occur without warning, as has been seen with the recent epidemic in West Africa of the closely related Ebola virus.

Many countries across Africa and Asia - Pacific may be vulnerable to Zika virus outbreaks, with India, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Bangladesh expected to be at greatest risk of Zika virus transmission due to a combination of high travel volumes from Zika affected areas in the Americas, local presence of mosquitos capable of transmitting Zika virus, suitable climatic conditions, large populations and / or limited health resources, according to a new modelling study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

One study from Taiwan tracked avian flu outbreaks downwind of Asian dust storms and found that the flu virus might be transported long - distance by air spiked with the dust.

The effort took on added urgency with the outbreak of Zika virus, which is carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

During the Ebola outbreak in Africa in 2014, patients tested for the disease had to provide a blood sample fortesting in a specialist lab by highly trained staff., There are only a few of these facilities in the world, including Public Health England's Lab in Porton Down in the UK, with each diagnosis of the Ebola virus genome taking between5 - 8 hours to confirm.

The basic idea is to build a ring of immune hosts around an outbreak by inoculating anyone likely to have contact with someone infected by the virus.

Gadap is one of three strongholds of the virus in Pakistan, and as an urban area with many migrant families it is a source of outbreaks elsewhere in the country.

Alessandro Vespignani of Indiana University has calculated the chance the virus will emigrate, using a model that combines detailed travel data, incubation times and the rate of increase of the epidemic, with a range of hypothetical, random travel events (PLoS Current Outbreaks, doi.org/vvd).

«We will likely always be faced with the threat of novel outbreak viruses originating in animals or insects.

Following previous outbreaks of the virus in northeastern Gabon and in the northwest of the Republic of the Congo in 2001, the Gabonese and Congolese ministries of forestry and environment, along with several wildlife organizations, implemented a temporary Animal Mortality Monitoring Network.

For the second time since the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was brought under control in July, a scientist studying the virus has accidentally become infected with it.

Michael Callahan, a clinician at Massachusetts General Hospital in in Boston who consults with HHS about Ebola and has responded to past outbreaks, said that «many» people die from Ebola even though their natural immune responses are driving down levels of the virus.

ANTIMICROBIAL clothing that recharges with light could help stave off outbreaks of lethal pathogens like Ebola virus or food - borne bacteria like E. coli.

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.

See all of Science's coverage of the Ebola outbreak, including the ethics of using experimental drugs, the potential of existing treatments, and the tale of Africa's first encounter with the virus.

That would allow a population that loses some cats to the virus to recover with the addition of healthy tigers from farther away, improving the likelihood that the group survives the outbreak.

The scientists examined mice that they infected with a mouse form of the same species of Ebola virus causing the 2014 West Africa outbreak.

Other measures, including treating people with antiviral drugs, closing schools, and restricting travel, could slow the spread of the virus but would be unlikely to halt an outbreak of a highly contagious flu, say the government - funded researchers who conducted the simulations.

Outbreak of dengue virus serotype - 2 (DENV - 2) of Cambodian origin in Manipur, India - association with meteorological factors

This virus, which causes HPS in the US and Canada, has been associated with notable hantavirus outbreaks, including the cluster of cases at Yosemite National Park in 2012.

Guided by published data on virus and mosquito vital rates, the model indicates that outbreaks can plausibly occur in major cities in the eastern United States, with hundreds of potential victims in localized areas, under conditions that are not atypical.

Researchers have already documented an increase of microcephaly cases coinciding with the outbreak and have found evidence of the virus in brains of newborns who died, as well as in fluid from the placenta of infected pregnant women.

The Zika outbreak sweeping across the Americas has coincided with a surge of devastating birth defects, but links between these defects and infection by the virus have not been firmly established.

With more than 1,700 cases reported across the world, the current outbreak of the Ebola virus is the worst in decades.

Publishing in The Lancet journal a group of researchers have analysed data from a previous outbreak of Zika virus in French Polynesia and report that of 42 patients diagnosed with Guillain - Barré syndrome at the time, all showed signs of an immune response against Zika whereas only half of those in a control group did.

«Senegal reopened on Monday its land border with Guinea, the Interior Ministry said, five months after closing transport links in August to prevent the spread of the worst outbreak on record of the deadly Ebola virus.

«Our goal is to develop maps that can simulate the abundance of this dengue virus carrier in a particular area, and then use these insights along with demographic and economic data, to predict where disease outbreaks are most likely to occur,» he said.

Allan Dickerman, a co-author of the paper and research assistant professor at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, performed the molecular clock analysis to determine that the divergence of the U.S. and Chinese virus strains coincides with a porcine epidemic diarrhea virus outbreak in China back in December of 2010.

The ongoing outbreak of Zika virus has brought up a number of suggestion with the aim of controlling its spread, and the use of genome editing and gene drive techniques to control mosquito populations, and hence limit the spread of the diseases which they carry, is the subject of an article in the journal Trends in Parasitology.