Sentences with phrase «worldwide outbreaks of the virus»

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The outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa in 2014, and the worldwide panic it caused, served as a wake - up call: We as a human race are still extremely vulnerable to fast - spreading, infectious diseases.

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.

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.

Heroic worldwide surveillance efforts have avoided a repeat of the 1918 flu pandemic, but as shown in the recent H1N1 outbreak, viruses can still outwit even the best public health efforts.

A single base mutation seems to have spurred the Hong Kong outbreak in 1997, and a sequence of DNA patched in from a swine virus could be responsible for the worldwide pandemic in 1918.

In anticipation of an upcoming cruise that I'm taking next week that is stopping at many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, I thought it would be appropriate to talk about the inherent risks associated with the recent worldwide outbreak of the Zika virus.