Sentences with phrase «worst outbreak of the disease»

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JOHANNESBURG, March 19 - Tiger Brands has closed its factory in Pretoria after listeria was detected at the plant as South Africa faces the worst global outbreak of the disease that has killed 180 people since January 2017.

SOUTH BRONX — The death toll in the worst outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in New York City history has risen to 12, and the number of people infected has gone up to 113, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced at a press conference Monday afternoon.

Two more Bronx residents have died from Legionnaires» disease, increasing the total to 10 in what city health commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett described as the worst outbreak of the illness in city history.

At a press conference on Saturday, the mayor tried to reassure New Yorkers that the worst of the outbreak was over, saying that the disease had been contained.

As of Monday afternoon, the outbreak of Legionnaires» Disease has taken the lives of a dozen people, and sent 113 people to the hospital, making it the worst outbreak in the city's history.

As the South Bronx reels in what the city is calling the worst outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in New York history, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration today announced that state and federal agencies were getting involved in the fight — which up until now has been in the hands of Mayor Bill de Blasio and Health Commissioner Mary Bassett.

Following the worst outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in New York City history, the City Council passed a bill this afternoon that will require all cooling towers to be registered with the Department of Buildings.

A California whooping cough epidemic in 2010 was one of the worst U.S. outbreaks of the disease in the past several decades.

Certain disease outbreaks, including some of the worst pandemics of the 20th century, are linked to weather patterns in the Pacific Ocean, according to new research.

In the past week, country after country has admitted that millions of birds and a few people have succumbed to bird flu, and it has become clear that we are facing the worst ever outbreak of the disease.

«This resonates with the cautionary message of the landmark 2015 study by Lloyd's of London, which showed that the global food system is actually under significant pressure from potential, coinciding shocks, such as bad weather combined with crop disease outbreaks,» Braun said.

Other themes within these pages examine the cost of redemption as well as an exploration of the best and worst of humanity through the device of a disease outbreak.

The worst outbreak in memory of a fatal dog disease has forced the Orange County animal - control department to euthanize more than two dozen dogs and halt a busy adoption program.

Somewhat surprisingly, the idea of a zombie outbreak seems far more likely and believable (even during Victorian times) than Moriarty creating robot versions of himself, or even worse, having his dead body injected with the zombie disease yet still managing to hold onto his personality and mentality.