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Since the late 1990s the amount of food that's imported has doubled," says Hannah Gould, an epidemiologist at the CDC who's been studying imported food and food safety. (kunc.org)
The disease initially surfaced in the late 1990s as a mutated and much more dangerous strain of the common feline respiratory ailment calicivirus. (goodnewsforpets.com)
Research in the late 1990s into deforestation and malaria in the Peruvian Amazon by Amy Vittor, now an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Florida, first sounded the alarm. (smithsonianmag.com)
Subsequent tests, however, traced the genetic lineage of the virus to a strain that had emerged in an industrial hog farm in Newton Grove, North Carolina, in the late 1990s, where it had circulated and evolved among pigs before crossing to humans. (pirg.org)
Studies have indicated that industrial poultry farms can be similarly lethal amplifiers of disease, as was the case with the 2006 HPAI (highly pathogenic avian influenza) outbreak and the H5N1 avian flu in the late 1990s, both of which originated in Chinese poultry farms. (pirg.org)
Global health officials are worried another strain could make a jump into humans, like H5N1 did in the late 1990s. (trust.org)
From its discovery in Malaysia in the late 1990s, the spillover of the Nipah virus from its pteropid reservoir into the human population has resulted in sporadic outbreaks of fatal encephalitis and respiratory disease. (cdc.gov)

This is partly due to the non-specific nature of the early symptoms of rickettsial diseases, which frequently present as undifferentiated febrile illness that is often indistinguishable from other infectious diseases, especially those common in tropical and subtropical regions (e.g., malaria, dengue fever, leptospirosis). (health.mil)
In many countries, FETP residents and trainees are the "boots on the ground" in the ongoing battles against infectious diseases, natural disasters, and environmental hazards. (cdc.gov)
Celdara Medical and UVM Professor of Medicine Jason Botten, Ph.D., have received a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases that will support the ongoing development of therapeutic antibodies for the treatment of Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome - a severe respiratory disease caused by rodent-borne hantaviruses. (uvm.edu)
Though cases occur across the Americas, the disease currently has no approved treatments, but thanks to support from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a potential new therapy is on the horizon. (uvm.edu)
Research reported in this press release is supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under award number R42AI132047-03. (uvm.edu)
The majority of new infectious diseases originate in animals, including well-known diseases such as SARS, avian flu, Ebola and HIV. (policyexchange.org.uk)
The goal of protecting people from emerging infectious diseases and threats has been furthered by close partnership between the public health community and experts in the field of pathology, says a CDC "Grand Rounds" report in today's Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report ( MMWR ). (umn.edu)
The strong public health partnership between CDC's Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch and forensic pathologists and medical examiners, coupled with the use of state-of-the-art technologies, has facilitated explanation of many otherwise unexplained deaths, led to the discovery of new pathogens, and enabled the monitoring of unexplained deaths and critical illnesses at the state and local levels," says the article. (umn.edu)
Pathologists play a critical role in advancing the knowledge of emerging infectious diseases, it says, in that they are often the first to encounter infectious disease outbreaks. (umn.edu)
Of the 19 national health objectives for the year 2000 that target infectious diseases, 10 are related to adult immunization (3). (cdc.gov)
She reported the results of the study today at the meeting of the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases on Atlanta. (kunc.org)
Peter Drotman] I'm Dr. Peter Drotman, editor in chief of Emerging Infectious Diseases and your host for today. (cdc.gov)
In the first reports on XDR TB, including the manuscript in Emerging Infectious Diseases, XDR TB was defined as TB that's resistant not only to the 2 main first-line drugs, but also to at least 3 of the 6 main classes of second-line drugs. (cdc.gov)

The disease has a long history in Nepal, where the first epidemic was recorded in 1823. (ibtimes.com)
It will be very hard to stop the outbreak if this violence continues," said Peter Salama, head of emergencies at the World Health Organization, the United Nations body coordinating the international response to the epidemic. (telegraph.co.uk)
These diseases occur endemically, meaning that there's a background rate of occurrence, but they can also occur in an epidemic way like this one-in a cluster where you get more cases occurring in a geographically concentrated area, among groups of people or in a certain city or college and so forth. (smh.com)
Aotearoa has experienced epidemics and outbreaks in the past, with a horrific Group B epidemic that raged through the 1990s until around 2008. (sciencemediacentre.co.nz)
The tragic irony is that Seattle, and the nation as a whole, has gotten the HIV epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s completely under control. (acsh.org)
After the latest epidemic registered in the mid-1990s control programmes were re-initiated by a number of international nongovernmental organizations in several counties. (who.int)
Playwright Erik Ehn , composer Lisa Bielawa , novelist and epidemiologist Andrew Moss, director Christine Säng, and the San Francisco State University Department of Theatre Arts collaborated to create an original opera about the natural and social history of tuberculosis from the nineteenth century through its outbreak during the 1990s among homeless populations in the United States and its interaction with the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. (creativeworkfund.org)
Almost every Member State faces cholera outbreaks or is at-risk of a cholera epidemic. (who.int)
A retrospective analysis of the nutritional situation of the Brazilian population demonstrates that, until the 70s, the nutritional scene was clearly characterized by epidemic outbreaks of hunger, geographically and socially localized, with high indices of the prevalence of serious, severe forms of energetic-protein undernourishment (EPU). (bvsalud.org)

The unprecedented scale of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has, as of 29 April 2015, resulted in more than 10,884 deaths among 26,277 cases. (nature.com)
Prior to the ongoing outbreak, Ebola virus disease (EVD) caused relatively small outbreaks (maximum outbreak size 425 in Gulu, Uganda) in isolated populations in central Africa. (nature.com)
Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is caused by a zoonotic virus first discovered in 1976 in remote villages of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire) and Sudan 1 - 4 . (nature.com)
Ebola Reston is unique among the five Ebola viruses in that it is not known to cause disease in humans 10 and Ebola Tai Forest has only been reported in 1 human case 11 . (nature.com)
The West Africa Ebola outbreak has led experts to consider what diseases might spark the next major infectious disease crisis. (nature.com)
As West Africans try to bring the calamitous Ebola outbreak to an end, the World Health Organization (WHO) has called scientists and doctors to Geneva, Switzerland, on 8 and 9 December to discuss which infectious disease is likely spark the next pandemic. (nature.com)
The world should, perhaps, have been better prepared: in the 13 years preceding the first West Africa case, Ebola killed more than 700 people in 15 outbreaks. (nature.com)
A two-day suspension of control activities after a similar massacre in the city in late September had devastating consequences, with the number of Ebola cases doubling because aid workers lost track of the spread of the disease. (telegraph.co.uk)
Deforestation may increase the prevalence of diseases including malaria, dengue fever, SARS, Ebola, schistosomiasis, leptospirosis (a bacterial disease that can lead to meningitis and liver failure), leishmaniasis (which causes skin lesions), and others, because it changes how and where the animals that transmit these diseases to humans live. (smithsonianmag.com)
From 2002-2003 Ebola killed 5,500 endangered western gorillas at the Lossi Sanctuary in the Republic of Congo, with the virus causing a third of gorilla deaths in the DRC since the 1990s . (ctph.org)

Nearly 40 countries have reported new outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry or wild birds since November, according to the WHO. (trust.org)

The threat of another major meningococcal disease outbreak has been concerning for some time but there are effective vaccines available. (sciencemediacentre.co.nz)

While avian flu has been a prominent public health issue since the 1990s, ongoing outbreaks have never been so widely spread around the world - something infectious disease experts put down to greater resilience of strains currently circulating, rather than improved detection or reporting. (trust.org)
In birds, latest data from the OIE should that outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian flu have been detected in Britain, Italy, Kuwait and Bangladesh in the last few days alone. (trust.org)

We have compared these to parameter estimates from the ongoing outbreak in West Africa. (nature.com)
So an outbreak in West Africa that would have been small in the 1990s is much bigger today. (wwno.org)

Disease detectives are critical in preventing local outbreaks from becoming global pandemics. (cdc.gov)
Nonetheless, because of many local outbreaks, the number of cases reported in the United States increased by more than 2300% between 1976 and 2005. (medscape.com)

An FETP India resident interviewing a grandmother during an acute encephalitis syndrome outbreak investigation. (cdc.gov)
Similarly, in the 1990s, factory farms were at the epicenter of a deadly Nipah virus outbreak , believed to have been the result of pigs in CAFO operations in Malaysia contracting the virus from bats and passing it on to farm workers, causing an outbreak of fatal encephalitis among pig farmers. (pirg.org)
Spillovers of Nipah virus (NiV) from its pteropid bat reservoir into the human population continue to cause near-annual outbreaks of fatal encephalitis and respiratory disease in Bangladesh and India since its emergence in Malaysia over 20years ago. (cdc.gov)

Rural districts, where sanitation is poor and health services are poorer, have a higher risk of facing cholera outbreaks, but those living in cities are not immune either, as urban areas become more crowded and residents face rising competition for safe drinking water. (ibtimes.com)
The unprecedented occurrence of cholera outbreaks is negatively affecting the economies of Member States through the directly-incurred costs of curative and preventive care and through indirectly-incurred costs due to loss of production and embargoes on trade and tourism. (who.int)
Overall, the case fatality ratio, however, shows a significant downward trend, reflecting the effectiveness of the rapid response to cholera outbreaks and improved case management. (who.int)

The DRC has experienced nine previous outbreaks, including one that killed 33 people in the Equateur region earlier in the summer, but this is the first to take place in an active conflict zone. (telegraph.co.uk)
In every monkeypox paper on previous outbreaks, there's always a warning about how we need to prepare for more outbreaks in the future," says infectious disease doctor Boghuma Titanji of Emory University. (wwno.org)

Since then, there have been sporadic outbreaks in human and non-human-primate populations, primarily in remote areas in central Africa ( Table 1 ) 7 - 9 . (nature.com)
But the foresighted scientists warned that, over time, these sporadic outbreaks would grow in size and spread geographically. (wwno.org)

In the 1990s, researchers discovered that the bacteria Vibrio cholerae, which causes cholera, was endemic to the country. (ibtimes.com)
Scrub typhus is a potentially fatal acute febrile disease transmitted by larval mites (i.e., "chiggers"), primarily of species of the genus Leptotrombidium that are infected by the obligate intracellular bacteria O. tsutsugamushi . (health.mil)
She compares the current outbreak to MRSA, a difficult-to-treat bacteria that emerged in the 1990s. (towson.edu)
Though the exact cause of rheumatic fever is unknown, the disease usually follows the contraction of a throat infection caused by a member of the Group A streptococcus (strep) bacteria (called strep throat). (encyclopedia.com)
Research more strongly supports the theory that the disease is caused by an interaction between antibodies produced to fight the group A streptococcus bacteria and the heart tissue. (encyclopedia.com)
Current travel guidelines for preven- iours (e.g. kissing, coughing, smoking) onstrated for serogroups C and W135 tion of meningococcal disease vary from all increase exposure to the bacteria [1]. (who.int)

The 2011 film Contagion , a fictional portrayal of a global infectious-disease crisis, was based in part on Nipah, which infects a range of animals, including bats and pigs, then moves into humans, where it kills as many as 100% of people infected. (nature.com)
West Nile virus is an arthropod-borne Flavivirus maintained in enzootic transmission cycles between birds and mosquitoes, but incidental infection of humans and horses can lead to neuroinvasive disease (Work et al. (ivis.org)
I remember working on a Scottish newspaper in the mid-1990s, when the first minor outbreak of mad cow disease in humans, which happened in Scotland, hit the headlines. (cnn.com)
To date, mad cow disease has infected slightly more than 150 humans. (cnn.com)
Now, a series of studies, built upon research over the past two decades, provides increasing evidence that the loss of forest creates the conditions for a wide range of deadly diseases to jump from animals to humans. (smithsonianmag.com)
Throughout history, diseases have moved from forests into humans through animal carriers. (smithsonianmag.com)
One recent model based on data from hog farms shows that workers at these facilities, being in close proximity to animals and thus at increased risk of contracting a virus, can be a "bridging population" for transmission of diseases from pigs to humans. (pirg.org)
According to biologists, there have been many examples of great apes like gorillas experiencing respiratory diseases usually found in humans. (ctph.org)
Apes are susceptible to respiratory diseases and they may exhibit stronger symptoms than humans and obviously do not have access to treatment," explained Martha Robbins, a conservationist at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, to Forbes. (ctph.org)
In the past other disease outbreaks have affected great apes similarly to humans. (ctph.org)
Smallpox was the most serious poxvirus disease in humans, caused by Variola virus (VARV). (ipl.org)
Epizootics with sometimes extensive die-offs of animal hosts may herald outbreaks of tularemia in humans. (cdc.gov)
Humans can develop severe and sometimes fatal illness, but do not transmit the disease to others. (cdc.gov)
Nipah virus (NiV) causes a highly lethal disease in humans who present with acute respiratory or neurological signs. (cdc.gov)

7 Understanding of the epidemiology of rickettsial diseases continues to evolve as new information accumulates about the expanding geographic distribution of the causative pathogens, 8 the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains,9 and the discovery of new species in the genera Rickettsia and Orientia . (health.mil)
To describe the epidemiology of selected vaccine-preventable diseases in New South Wales, Australia for 2013. (who.int)

And an outbreak of hepatitis A among homeless people in San Diego sickened 600 and killed 20. (acsh.org)

DENV-2 was the most prevalent serotype in several outbreaks in the Americas [ 6 ] and was epidemiologically classified as the most relevant serotype worldwide due to its association with the highest number of intense outbreaks, followed in sequence by DENV-3, DENV-1, and DENV-4 [ 25 ]. (hindawi.com)
This report describes notification data for measles, pertussis, rubella, Haemophilus influenzae serotype b invasive infection, invasive meningococcal disease, mumps, tetanus, invasive pneumococcal disease and selected travel-related diseases in New South Wales, Australia in 2013. (who.int)

At the start of an infectious disease outbreak, it is critical to understand the transmission dynamics of the pathogen and to determine those at highest risk for infection or severe outcomes in the population(s) affected 28 , 29 . (nature.com)
Vitor Inhane, a nurse responsible for surveillance in Bijagos Region, was studying 21 severe cases of malaria when he tested for other diseases that have similar signs and symptoms to malaria. (cdc.gov)
Up to 40 percent of people stricken with Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome (HCPS) - a severe respiratory disease caused by rodent-borne hantaviruses - die. (uvm.edu)
If toxin production is unopposed by antitoxin and severe disease occurs, early localized signs and symptoms give way to circulatory collapse, respiratory failure, stupor, coma, and death. (medscape.com)
Infected horses develop severe and often fatal respiratory disease, characterized by labored breathing and fluid and swelling in the lungs. (merckvetmanual.com)
There are certain conditions that make you more prone to get it and more prone to get severe disease. (smh.com)
Both these viruses are spread by rodents such as rats, mice and voles, and can cause severe disease in people. (gavi.org)
Among the Old World Arenaviruses, Lassa virus, Lujo virus and Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis virus are considered the most worthy of disease detectives' attention, largely because of their ability to cause severe disease in people. (gavi.org)
While there has been no definitive association of the distinct DENV types with clinical course of disease, there are reports suggesting that DENV-2 and DENV-3 cause severe disease more frequently than the other serotypes and that DENV-4 causes a milder illness [ 23 , 24 ]. (hindawi.com)
However, it is a severe disease with a significant risk of death or lasting disabilities in people who get it. (medlineplus.gov)

Rickettsial diseases are vector-borne bacterial infections that cause acute febrile illness throughout the world. (health.mil)
Diphtheria is an acute toxin-mediated disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae . (medscape.com)
Dengue is an acute infectious disease caused by infection with any one of four serotypes of dengue virus (DENV 1-4), which are transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)

We describe an autochthonous outbreak of dengue in the Paris Region of France during September-October 2023. (cdc.gov)

for these diseases, most targeted risk groups for immunization are adults (2). (cdc.gov)
Monitoring vaccine-preventable diseases is important to identify events that may require immediate public health control measures and to better inform policy and targeted immunization efforts. (who.int)
Control and prevention of meningococcal disease : recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). (cdc.gov)

Outbreaks of vector-borne and other communicable diseases continued into the early 2000s, including around 140,000 cases of vivax malaria in 2001 [ 3 ]. (plos.org)
Examples of diseases brought to the forefront by pathologists are hantavirus in the early 1990s, transmission of West Nile virus through blood transfusions and organ transplantation, and the association of pulmonary hemorrhage with leptospirosis. (umn.edu)
She pointed out it is extremely important for veterinarians, researchers and others to communicate early and often at the first sign of a possible VS-FCV outbreak, in order to seek guidance as well as spread the warning. (goodnewsforpets.com)
Early reports suggested that the source of the outbreak lay in the factory-style pig farms in the area around its epicenter in Veracruz. (pirg.org)
The Organization for Animal Health (OIE) says the concurrent outbreaks in birds in recent months are "a global public health concern", and the World Health Organization's director-general warned this week the world "cannot afford to miss the early signals" of a possible human flu pandemic. (trust.org)
In palm oil, Indonesian regions of large-scale planting in the early 1990s are in need of replanting, as trees grow too high to be harvested and are beyond their productive life cycle. (idhsustainabletrade.com)
In the early 1990s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and legislators, led by Congressman Henry A. Waxman, responded to a national measles outbreak and developed the Vaccines for Children program-an initiative that has since protected millions of children from preventable disease. (oup.com)
The situation of cholera in the African Region has been worsening since the early 1990s, with countries reporting more cases annually. (who.int)
You may remember, in the early 1990s, there were many outbreaks of MDR TB with very high fatality rates - 70, 80, even 90% - especially in HIV-infected patients. (cdc.gov)

Outbreaks of Shigella , which causes bloody diarrhea, and trench fever, which is associated with soldiers fighting in the trenches of World War I, have occurred in Seattle. (acsh.org)

It is only a matter of time until the next deadly flu outbreak, and experts agree that the world is unprepared. (nature.com)
I'm extremely grateful to the NIH for this opportunity to develop a potential frontline treatment for this deadly disease," he added. (uvm.edu)
DAVIS, Calif. " (June 13, 2006) " When virulent systemic feline calicivirus (VS-FCV) strikes, aggressive action is needed to keep the highly contagious and often deadly disease from wreaking havoc within a veterinary practice. (goodnewsforpets.com)

However, an increasing number of autochthonous cases and limited outbreaks have been described since 2010. (cdc.gov)
About 9,700 cases of invasive diseases linked to strep A were reported in the United States in 1997. (encyclopedia.com)
There were three times as many outbreaks in the 1990s as in the 1940s, and cases continue to rise. (policyexchange.org.uk)
The number of tuberculosis cases was high, but reporting was evidently poor in the 1990s [ 4 ]. (plos.org)
Earlier this month, the Florida Department of Health and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention both detected an ongoing outbreak of meningococcal disease (meningitis) in Florida, with the number of cases so far this year already surpassing the 5-year average. (smh.com)
Now these outbreaks tend to be rather protracted, and cases don't occur all at the same time. (smh.com)
about 30% of measles cases develop into serious complications, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (umn.edu)
The monitoring of unexplained deaths through autopsy can give "vital information" on the number of infectious disease cases and help in developing prevention strategies, says the article, and gives an opportunity for enhanced infectious disease surveillance. (umn.edu)
When outbreaks occur, large-scale control reduces the number of cases but when the programme scales down disease resurgence occurs. (who.int)
Back in the 1990s, there were only about 50 monkeypox cases a year in West and Central Africa. (wwno.org)
Now, in 2022, the world is facing the first international outbreak of monkeypox, with more than 450 cases reported in about 20 countries. (wwno.org)
Dengue became a notifiable disease on 1 September 1989 in China, partly in response to outbreaks of dengue fever, with cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever being reported sequentially in Hainan, Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Yunnan provinces during the 1980s. (biomedcentral.com)
All probable or laboratory confirmed cases are reported to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) in Beijing. (biomedcentral.com)
Data describing cases in NCIMS were extracted for selected vaccine-preventable diseases with a date of onset in 2013. (who.int)
In 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that, since 2001, fewer than 25 cases of rubella have occurred each year in the United States. (medscape.com)
In the U.S., reported cases have dropped sharply from several thousand/year prior to 1950 to fewer than 200/year in the 1990s. (cdc.gov)

In the 1980s its management team recognized the potential of new knowledge in molecular biology, stemming from the discovery of DNA and gene transformation technologies, to address pest and disease control - especially in agriculture. (berkeley.edu)

We're lucky to have effective vaccines against all of the main serogroups that cause meningococcal disease in Aotearoa New Zealand, and current policy is appropriately targeted to the ages when children and young people are most at risk. (sciencemediacentre.co.nz)

Nature canvassed infectious-disease specialists to find out which pathogens they thought would trigger the next global crisis, and which treatments and vaccines might be readied to combat them. (nature.com)
But the vaccines don't offer lifelong protection, so New Zealand also needs a comprehensive strategy to coordinate an array of control options and permanently reduce the harms experienced by New Zealanders from this terrible disease. (sciencemediacentre.co.nz)

Dengue has been a notifiable disease in China since 1 September 1989. (biomedcentral.com)

Rickettsial diseases have had a significant impact on public health and have been a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in both civilian and military populations.5 In addition, rickettsial pathogens continue to emerge and reemerge as causes of illness throughout the world. (health.mil)
In these industrial-scale facilities, the proximity of thousands of genetically similar animals, packed together in unsanitary, overcrowded spaces and vulnerable to disease due to the stress placed on their immune systems by these living conditions, provides the ideal environment for viruses and other pathogens to circulate, mutate, and evolve the ability to cross over to human populations. (pirg.org)

This virus replicon particle system provides a vital tool to the field and demonstrates utility as a highly efficacious and safe vaccine candidate that can be administered parenterally or mucosally to protect against lethal Nipah disease. (cdc.gov)

Economic difficulties, natural disasters, and poor resourcing of the health sector in the 1990s had catastrophic impacts on public health and system functioning, leading to sharp declines in vaccination coverage. (plos.org)
Recent challenges to the sector have included a declining sugar industry, inability to cope with trade liberalization, natural disasters, pest and disease outbreaks, and trade restrictions in export markets. (ifad.org)

This report describes the public health impact of influenza, pneumococcal disease, hepatitis B, and measles on U.S. adults. (cdc.gov)
More recently, the Disneyland outbreak of measles opened a door for state Senator Richard Pan, a physician, and colleagues to pass legislation closing loopholes in vaccination requirements in California. (oup.com)
It was not until 1814 that it was first described as a separate disease in the German medical literature, hence the common name "German measles. (cdc.gov)

The disease, called equine morbillivirus pneumonia, develops in horses that are infected by direct contact with the virus particles in urine, saliva, and respiratory secretions. (merckvetmanual.com)
Her 10-year-old brother died of respiratory disease on 29 May, but no specimens were taken for testing and the cause of his death cannot be determined. (blessedquietness.com)

The ancestral group includes the tick-borne agents Rickettsia bellii and R. canadensis but does not contain pathogens that cause human disease. (health.mil)

Now the affected areas are completely isolated, the armed forces and the government have begun creating a buffer out of fear of the spread of diseases or epidemics," Prime Minister Ossama Hamad said in a telephone interview with Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV. (texomashomepage.com)
Like SARS, MERS has vague symptoms - fever, cough, shortness of breath - and seems to spread through coughs and sneezes, so epidemics can burn through hospitals , then throw off 'embers' as travellers export the disease. (nature.com)

There is presently a resurgence of diphtheria outbreaks in Nigeria. (who.int)
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) was notified of suspected diphtheria outbreaks in Lagos and Kano States, Nigeria, in December 2022 and has been issuing monthly reports since that time. (who.int)

While food safety is considered to be an important issue in school foodservice, there have been several recent outbreaks of foodborne illness in schools and research shows that safe sanitation and food-handling practices are not always followed in school meal programs. (schoolnutrition.org)
Foodborne illness outbreaks have large health and economic consequences (Mead et al. (schoolnutrition.org)
Recent testimony from the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) (2002) reported that school-related foodborne illness outbreaks have increased about 10% annually through the 1990s. (schoolnutrition.org)
Cholera and other foodborne and waterborne diseases remain a global threat and are related to poverty. (who.int)

I began my career studying hantavirus disease shortly after the initial outbreaks of disease in the Americas in the 1990s," said Botten. (uvm.edu)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
About 100,000 people around the world die from it every year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say. (ibtimes.com)
Workers from the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) were ordered to leave the most high risk areas as a result. (telegraph.co.uk)
It's not that imported foods are any nastier than home-grown, according to a presentation today from researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (kunc.org)
Cary, 2001) and Salmonellosis (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1987) affected several students' health and had major economic consequences to families and school districts. (schoolnutrition.org)
Within a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates, it had killed as many as 575,400 people worldwide. (pirg.org)
Announcer] This podcast is presented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)

Adults may also be at increased risk for vaccine-preventable diseases because of advancing age, occupation, lifestyle, or development of certain chronic diseases. (cdc.gov)
Vaccine-preventable diseases were relatively well controlled in New South Wales in 2013, with declining or stable notification rates in most diseases compared with the previous year. (who.int)
1 Each LHD has a public health unit responsible for follow-up of all health-related issues including vaccine-preventable diseases. (who.int)
Under the state's public health legislation, medical practitioners, hospital general managers and laboratories are required to notify certain vaccine-preventable diseases. (who.int)
2 Upon receipt of a notification, a surveillance officer from the relevant public health unit determines whether or not the notification meets the case definition of a vaccine-preventable disease according to national criteria. (who.int)

Following an apparent expansion in range across the Americas and Europe that began in the 1990s, WNV is now the world's most widely distributed arbovirus (Kramer et al. (ivis.org)

The invasive meningococcal disease notification rate declined, and disease due to serogroup C remained low and stable. (who.int)
ABSTRACT The Islamic Hajj to Makkah (Mecca) has been associated with outbreaks of invasive meningococcal disease and the global spread of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W-135. (who.int)

Nontoxigenic strains also cause disease, which is mostly cutaneous and usually mild. (medscape.com)
LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The global spread of bird flu and the number of viral strains currently circulating and causing infections have reached unprecedented levels, raising the risk of a potential human outbreak, according to disease experts. (trust.org)
The precise reasons for the unusually large number and sustained nature of bird outbreaks in recent months, and the proliferation of strains, is unclear - although such developments compound the global spreading process. (trust.org)

We sat with Dr. Gordillo to learn more about meningitis and how we can protect ourselves during this latest outbreak. (smh.com)
Are meningitis outbreaks common? (smh.com)
Meningococcal disease-meningococcal meningitis or meningococcal septicemia, which are the two forms of this disease-are diseases that reappear from time to time. (smh.com)
What should people do to protect themselves from meningitis outbreaks? (smh.com)
Meningococcal disease can cause meningitis (infection of the lining of the brain and spinal cord) and infections of the blood. (medlineplus.gov)

It was one of the world's most devastating diseases known to humanity. (ipl.org)

6 Reported incidences of several rickettsial diseases, notably scrub typhus in the Asia/Pacific region and SFG rickettsioses in the U.S., have increased substantially. (health.mil)
There is a typhus outbreak in Los Angeles. (acsh.org)

Multiple outbreaks have been reported in poultry farms and wild flocks across Europe, Africa and Asia in the past three months. (trust.org)

These estimates can be used to parameterize transmission models to improve understanding of initial spread of EVD outbreaks and to inform surveillance and control guidelines. (nature.com)
Residents spend over 75% of their time in the field investigating outbreaks, conducting surveys, setting-up surveillance systems, and training other healthcare workers in their area. (cdc.gov)

In 2002, Hurley and her colleagues at UC-Davis investigated a VS-FCV outbreak in Los Angeles. (goodnewsforpets.com)
In the US, the last urban outbreak of rat-associated plague occurred in Los Angeles in 1924 to 1925. (msdmanuals.com)

Dengue is the most important reemerging mosquito-borne viral disease worldwide. (hindawi.com)

The first person identified in this outbreak was an infant tuberculin skin test 8 weeks after their most recent exposure hospitalized in November 2021 with pulmonary and menin- to any household member with TB ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
Industrial pig farms have been the source of a range of disease outbreaks over recent years, the 2009 H1N1 outbreak being a case in point. (pirg.org)

The United Nations had warned on Monday that a disease outbreak could create "a second devastating crisis. (texomashomepage.com)
In the mid-1990s, a crisis developed in the context of complex national and international circumstances, with deteriorating health care and public health program coverage, food insecurity, and widespread malnutrition despite large-scale international food aid. (plos.org)

some authors describe "hemolytic-uremic syndrome-TTP" as a single disease entity with a diverse spectrum of presentations. (medscape.com)

Ironically, Hurley and others speculate that VS-FCV outbreaks occurring outside a clinic setting may not spread, because infected animals do not live long enough to transmit the disease to many other animals. (goodnewsforpets.com)
The study, published in the journal Biological Conservation , shows that the fungus is also a threat to terrestrial-breeding amphibians with important ecological functions, which include controlling insects that transmit diseases such as dengue, yellow fever, and zika. (fapesp.br)

While it has been difficult to trace the source of human outbreaks, it is believed that EVD outbreaks usually start from a zoonotic source with subsequent human-to-human transmission 22 , 23 . (nature.com)

Nigéria, en décembre 2022 et publie depuis lors des rapports mensuels. (who.int)

It highlights a great need for responsible tourism to provide adequate protection while minimising disease transmission, especially now during the COVID-19 pandemic," she adds. (ctph.org)

Every day, somewhere in the world, field epidemiologists or "disease detectives" save lives by detecting and controlling disease outbreaks. (cdc.gov)
The resulting global cadre now consists of over 9,500 well-trained disease detectives skilled in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting public health data and turning it into action. (cdc.gov)
Controlling disease outbreaks at their source requires that disease detectives think outside the box, as they often deal with unexpected, urgent problems that demand immediate and innovative solutions. (cdc.gov)
Spice outbreaks are especially hard for disease detectives to track, Gould says, because people don't think of them as a discrete item in their diet. (kunc.org)

The disease is endemic to Nepal, and aid workers say that clean water and sanitation are crucial in preventing an outbreak in the aftermath of the magnitude-7.8 earthquake that hit Saturday. (ibtimes.com)

Ancient diseases that are preventable with vaccination and basic hygiene have come roaring back . (acsh.org)
When the disease was eradicated and vaccination came to a stop, that created an opening for its virus relative monkeypox. (wwno.org)
Inadequate vaccination rates have led to an ongoing outbreak in Austria. (medscape.com)

Most often, this response lacks a coordinated and multisectoral approach, fails to prevent occurrence or recurrence of outbreaks and can result in many deaths. (who.int)

Nonetheless, Hurley says clinic outbreaks are occurring with increasing frequency and veterinarians must be on guard for signs of the disease. (goodnewsforpets.com)

Meningococcal ACWY vaccine can help protect against meningococcal disease caused by serogroups A, C, W, and Y. A different meningococcal vaccine is available that can help protect against serogroup B. (medlineplus.gov)

DERNA, Libya (AP) - Authorities have divided Libya's flood-stricken city of Derna into four sections to create buffers in case of disease outbreaks, the prime minister of Libya's eastern administration said Tuesday, a day after thousands of angry protesters demanded the city's rapid reconstruction. (texomashomepage.com)
Here, we have compiled a comprehensive database of estimates of epidemiological parameters based on data from past outbreaks, including the incubation period distribution, case fatality rate, basic reproduction number ( R 0 ), effective reproduction number ( R t ) and delay distributions. (nature.com)

Pneumococcal Disease. (cdc.gov)

But it does happen from time to time in certain groups who tend to live together or congregate, especially college students, because they group together and they're at the right age where most of these outbreaks occur. (smh.com)

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