Epidemiologists work to prevent epidemics, but they also can't study really epidemics without one happening.
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For sure we would have epidemics, large epidemics in more countries and more places within the countries.
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Epidemics: The project also maps out how epidemics like Ebola, Zika and yellow fever spread all over the world.
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While the obesity and opioid epidemics are sometimes written off as "bad life choices," these epidemics are largely the handiworks of an irresponsible corporate sector.
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Epidemics have hit the market severely in the past, and an evaluation of past epidemics reveals that financial and economic markets eventually return to normal.
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"[T]his study shows that influenza epidemics in smaller cities burn hot and fast, while epidemics in big megacities burn at more of a year-round smolder," she said.
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While the culprit diseases behind later epidemics, like smallpox, measles, mumps and influenza, have been well documented, earlier epidemics in the "New World" aren't as well-characterized, creating debate among researchers.
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The epidemics of Zika and dengue are cases in point.
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Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.
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Precautions around this are high in countries with serious epidemics.
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Farrar says this global approach can help quash epidemics faster.
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Sugar is being blamed for the obesity and diabetes epidemics.
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"I wanted a break from all these epidemics," he says.
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"The risk of epidemics is also a challenge," Faller warned.
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The history of past drug epidemics also tells the story.
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In the first four epidemics, the virus showed few changes.
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Create a visual timeline that explains and compares these epidemics.
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Create a visual timeline that explains and compares these epidemics.
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Is a wave of xenophobia the historical norm during epidemics?
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"Some providers do exclude epidemics or pandemics outright," Benna added.
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"There are no epidemics of infections in Sweden," he said.
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He rattles off epidemics like a military veteran recalling battles.
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Violent crime and drug epidemics plagued residents of downtrodden neighborhoods.
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That recognition was followed by two more: Naturally occurring epidemics might be as dangerous as maliciously introduced ones; and diseases in plants and animals could undermine national security as seriously as human epidemics would.
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This is similar to the way other epidemics work, such as chikungunya (another mosquito-borne disease that's similar to Zika and dengue), in which explosive epidemics are followed by long periods with few new cases.
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The prescription painkiller epidemic is really a story of two epidemics.
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These communities are at great risk of water born illness epidemics.
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Uganda's system for containing epidemics is far more effective than Congo's.
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I think we would curb the epidemics [of obesity and diabetes].
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He wanted to study the causes, spread and suppression of epidemics.
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Yet the process for preventing deadly epidemics remains antiquated at best.
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The research project looked at how so-called "beneficial epidemics" operate.
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This doesn't register as much as epidemics with smaller death tolls.
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But we know from past epidemics that this is not enough.
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Yet the island failed to control two previous mosquito-borne epidemics.
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Issuing advisory guidelines is common during emergencies like epidemics, he said.
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Read more: We're in an 'age of epidemics,' a scientist says.
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So how exactly does the coronavirus stack up to those epidemics?
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"During the polio epidemics," Hill said, young patients shared iron lungs.
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Back then, disease epidemics and pandemics of all kinds were common.
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Finally, states must improve their national capacities to respond to epidemics.
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Meanwhile, fears are growing of self-sustaining epidemics elsewhere in Asia.
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Many of the world's biggest epidemics have been traced to China.
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For example, Ebola and influenza are classic epidemics caused by viruses.
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But as with other epidemics, we must also invest in prevention.
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Ending these epidemics can be a legacy for the United States.
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A vaccine accepted by the W.H.O. is being stockpiled for epidemics.
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Another surprising weather related phenomenon occurs with thunderstorms and asthma epidemics.
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But we have had no witchcraft epidemics since Thomas Brattle's time.
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"During peacetime, we plan for epidemics like this," Ms. Kurupatham said.
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"During peacetime, we plan for epidemics like this," Ms. Kurupatham said.
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The government can claim only partial credit; drug epidemics tend to fizzle.
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He warned in December that the world is "vulnerable" to flu epidemics.
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Sugary drink consumption is directly linked to these obesity and diabetes epidemics.
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But that does not mean that epidemics will break out, scientists say.
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Their presence in recent days has helped prevent epidemics and widespread looting.
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Many focus on life-threatening epidemics rather than treating pain, she says.
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It has plans to insure against epidemics and issue climate-catastrophe bonds.
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None of the proposed solutions have made a dent in these epidemics.
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Having multiple manufacturers ensures against shortages, which can be disastrous during epidemics.
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They are mass warfare, violent revolutions, state failure, and plagues/diseases/epidemics.
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East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892.
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But the African continent can draw from significant experience dealing with epidemics.
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If other countries are vulnerable to epidemics, that makes our country, too.
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In the 19th-century cholera epidemics ravaged the slums of American cities.
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Tinkering on the margins seems unlikely to solve any of today's epidemics.
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On Tuesday, he warned other states to prepare for their own epidemics.
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As epidemics escalate, the potential roles of robotics are becoming increasingly clear.
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Most Italians are unfamiliar with epidemics, so we struggle, confused, to react.
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Past epidemics show just how quickly human error can lead to disaster.
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Epidemics, plagues, and pandemics have been around since the dawn of civilization.
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The majority of these epidemics happen because of humans and human activity.
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Italy has also reported two deaths, raising fears of self-sustaining epidemics.
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As evidence, he points to the timing of recent C. diff epidemics.
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Why do some experts believe aggressive measures to fight epidemics can backfire?
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Like other epidemics, obesity affects a large and growing number of people.
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Before 22019, only nine countries had experienced severe epidemics of dengue fever.
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And a vaccine accepted by the W.H.O. is being stockpiled for epidemics.
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But the problem is that most of these policies don't cover epidemics.
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But historically, that has not been true of the great flu epidemics.
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That is more than twice as many epidemics as any other country.
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Epidemics of measles in Israel and Ukraine are the source of the infection.
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Post-Civil War America was marked by epidemics: yellow fever, smallpox and typhus.
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What they are finding is mass malnutrition, worrying epidemics, and a logistical nightmare.
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Epidemics are bad business for pharmaceutical companies; stopping them is risky and expensive.
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His most noted works revolved around the decade's AIDS and substance abuse epidemics.
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When they make the jump to humans, these viruses can cause major epidemics.
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In America, we've continually seen the impact of drug epidemics on foster care.
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Taiwan has a very strong hospital system, and we can help with epidemics.
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In total, only 21 Chinese regions saw cases during the first four epidemics.
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Two corporate-caused US epidemics -- obesity and opioid addictions -- add to the misery.
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Epidemics of misinformation may turn out to be as costly as the disease.
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Forty days represented the time most plague epidemics began to burn themselves out.
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"What worries me is the sincere possibility of epidemics," Dr. Rodríguez-Mercado added.
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The World Health Organization is supposed to coordinate the global response to epidemics.
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Some of civilization's greatest achievements came in the wake of wars or epidemics.
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I think that's the way we ought to treat these kinds of epidemics.
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By contrast, epidemics cause social confusion and often cause far-reaching societal changes.
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Global health On a continent wracked with epidemics, millions turn to traditional healers.
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These "silent" epidemics, always quietly simmering, break through the noise whena celebrity succumbs.
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Countless things are now described as epidemics: loneliness, selfies, nostalgia, partisanship, fake news.
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Laboratories are not cheap and diagnostic capacity is very crucial to preventing epidemics.
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Gottlieb mentioned Miami, Atlanta, New Orleans and Chicago as possible sites of epidemics.
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I have faith that coronavirus will come to pass, as all epidemics do.
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Since the Middle Ages, periodic epidemics of this infection killed millions of people.
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Beyond the global fear, we are also seeing Strong's second and third epidemics.
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Another problem is that investors are not trained in epidemics, let alone pandemics.
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Tesla said last week that "health epidemics" are a risk to its business.
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There are things that can be done to combat drug epidemics in general.
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"Most of the past epidemics were controllable, but this time, I&aposm petrified."
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The public response to drug epidemics also tends to diverge along racial lines.
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" According to Dalziel, "It's not necessarily that urbanization will make epidemics more severe.
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The epidemics of AIDS, TB and malaria are each at a tipping point.
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Still, asymptomatic carriers "are not normally major drivers of epidemics," Dr. Fauci said.
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Anthony Fauci has guided the US through the AIDS, Zika, and Ebola epidemics.
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Our first goal should be to broaden our armory against potential mass epidemics.
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This loss has caused severe economic damage and floods, landslides and deadly epidemics.
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"The problem with these epidemics is that they are never over," Montaner said.
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Iron lungs were rationed during the polio epidemics of the 1940s and 1950s.
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From communicable diseases like Ebola and measles that have the potential to become true epidemics, to other health threats that are branded epidemics like opioids and vaping, serious health threats are in the news and on our minds almost every day.
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Of course, cold weather isn't the only prerequisite for flu epidemics to take off.
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After all, our middle class had survived wars, scandals, epidemics and a Great Depression.
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During the past four avian influenza (H7N9) epidemics, about 40% of those infected died.
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It need not be that way, argues Jonathan Quick in "The End of Epidemics".
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Remember, what we need to explain is what caused the obesity and diabetes epidemics.
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But there is some research that shows that fake news is akin to epidemics.
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To understand why, consider the dominant narratives of the past and current drug epidemics.
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So people didn't really feel anxious or afraid of epidemics, like they do now.
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Many of our severest problems are inherently global, particularly climate, epidemics, migrants, and terrorism.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is generally in charge of monitoring epidemics.
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Let's remember that no matter how global they may seem, all epidemics are local.
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Unlike past drug epidemics, the opioid epidemic has largely hit white and rural areas.
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The economic losses associated with epidemics can have a strong influence on public response.
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No. We're operating off of public health history and what's happened with other epidemics.
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From the early 20th century onward, poliomyelitis epidemics swept through the country every summer.
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Unlike other drug epidemics, the current one did not start with an illicit substance.
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Mistrust in the medical profession — particularly during emergencies like epidemics — can have deadly consequences.
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We gathered photos chronicling a century of epidemics, from influenza to AIDS to Ebola.
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Passengers have fallen ill and died as cruise ships become the sites of epidemics.
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For the foreseeable future, viral epidemics will remain a regular feature of human life.
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Epidemics force medical professionals to make tough choices, including which lives to save first.
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The United States led the world's response to other epidemics, like Ebola and AIDS.
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"Social problems among poorer populations are a variable that always worsen epidemics," she said.
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Flight cancellations and route suspensions have more to do with economics that epidemics, though.
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Concealing epidemics, environmental crises, and product scandals was once reflexive behaviour for local governments.
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The C.D.C. gives scientific advice and battles foreign epidemics before they reach these shores.
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Indeed, spikes in gun deaths over the past decade amount to epidemics, researchers said.
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The epidemics continued through 2017, the most recent year of available US mortality data.
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A is the type of virus that causes epidemics of sniffling, aches and fevers.
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Public health approaches to these types of epidemics have been successful in the past.
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"These mini epidemics are related to new substances people know nothing about," Baumann said, adding that these "periodic, mini-epidemics of drug overdoses" in which many people face serious health consequences as a result of using synthetic cannabinoids continue across the nation.
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These are silent epidemics, so they don't generate as much public alarm as they should.
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They look like epidemics of disinformation, meant to undercut the credibility of valid information sources.
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The resulting epidemics favour the survival of those with genetic traits that grant them resistance.
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The project was set up to address the epidemics and prevent them from happening annually.
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If it doesn't experts predict epidemics will return on a large scale within 15 years.
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We've seen epidemics every four years in California, so maybe every four years would work.
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If we want to know what caused these epidemics, we can't look at eating patterns.
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Here's everything we know about the outbreakWe're in an 'age of epidemics,' a scientist says.
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Advances in diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics hold great promise in preventing and responding to epidemics.
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"New epidemics that emerge in humans often come from contact with animal diseases," Jacobs said.
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When Clinton spoke about autism in '08, Willingham notes, she talked about epidemics and cures.
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He added that there needed to be more focus on developing treatments for likely epidemics.
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TPS is designed for countries experiencing dire circumstances, such as war, natural disasters or epidemics.
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"There are always two epidemics: one of the virus and one of fear," he said.
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Later, Insitro may target even bigger epidemics, including perhaps Alzheimer's disease or Type 2 diabetes.
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"Scarlet fever epidemics have yet to abate in the UK and northeast Asia," they wrote.
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The tactic may presage the evolution of new ways to respond to fast-moving epidemics.
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Our goal is to finance and coordinate vaccine development to protect ourselves from future epidemics.
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For those who doubt this claim, it is worth recalling how unpredictable epidemics can be.
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It just serves to illustrate how difficult it is to predict, track, and study epidemics.
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The timing of proposed cutbacks couldn't be worse, as epidemics take a massive toll worldwide.
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The fast-food and retail industries have long known that they are vulnerable to epidemics.
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As long as New York City has existed, it has dealt with outbreaks and epidemics.
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Garlic was once the go-to remedy during epidemics liked typhus, dysentery, cholera, and influenza.
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We looked back at a century of epidemics to give context to the current one.
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Severe epidemics tend to occur every few decades, and the latest one is upon us.
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Two charts show the difference between the course of the two countries' epidemics so far.
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We looked at the data to see how those epidemics compare to the new coronavirus.
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Second, businesses can support national public health institutes so they can adequately prepare for epidemics.
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Resolve to Save Lives works with countries to prevent 100 million deaths by combatting epidemics.
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Mr. Bolsonaro rode a backlash against corruption and crime epidemics that are distinctly Latin American.
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"We have been known to take care of epidemics from Zika to Ebola," he said.
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In past epidemics, healthcare workers were also disproportionately impacted by the illnesses they were treating.
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They know how to handle epidemics, but they need the resources to do their work.
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In recent epidemics, infected individuals have been quarantined to their homes or in hospital wards.
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People make choices during epidemics based on how much risk they think the disease poses.
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We need to stop what drives mass epidemics rather than just respond to individual diseases.
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Maybe a step in addressing this epidemic, as with other epidemics, is removing the stigma.
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Officials globally are considering sugary drinks taxes to try to stem obesity and diabetes epidemics.
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"We can look at these historical epidemics and start to tie them together," she says.
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"They're providing the tinder that can start the fires of the epidemics," Dr. Omer said.
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"Our job is not just to react to epidemics," Mr. Zebrowski said before voting yes.
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Fears of "devastating epidemics" prompted the World Health Organization to establish a detailed preparation infrastructure.
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If epidemics happen at a politically opportune time, the money is more likely to flow.
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He realized he needed to watch for what he calls "lightning strikes"—strange, small-scale epidemics.
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What's most exciting about CRISPR is our ability to alter longstanding epidemics like malaria and HIV.
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During the past four epidemics, about 40% of people infected with H7N9 died, the CDC reports.
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Officials touted the move as a solution to the twin epidemics of codeine and tramadol abuse.
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Powerful ideas, captured in memorable stories, can spread like epidemics, wreaking economic havoc as they go.
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In Western Europe (as well as North America), HIV mainly affects gay communities, causing concentrated epidemics.
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These simple steps can contribute substantially to ending the epidemics of opioid abuse and chronic pain.
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"As vaccination rates decline, these kinds of epidemics are going to become more common," he said.
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Epidemics are inconvenient to politicians, costly for businesses and alarming for general populations the world over.
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Recognizing and responding to these realities have helped communities and countries make progress against their epidemics.
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Now, other states and cities with similar epidemics have the opportunity to follow in Detroit's footsteps.
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Forests have become unnaturally dense and overgrown, and insect epidemics have laid waste to entire landscapes.
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WHO has also identified 14 other diseases that have caused epidemics or pandemics in recent years.
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The twin epidemics of opioid addiction and suicide deaths have created an enormous public health emergency.
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The group aims to develop quick, affordable vaccine responses to epidemics such as Ebola and SARS.
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It's common among survivors of trauma, including soldiers returning from combat and people who've survived epidemics.
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The earth still revolves around the sun, life evolves and infectious epidemics continue to threaten humankind.
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Using them, scientists can map the epidemics and environmental changes that shook Europe over the centuries.
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"Epidemics don't discriminate," Louise McCarthy, president of the Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles, told Vox.
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We have two cases of sort of botched responses to epidemics out of neglect and incompetence.
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Pandemics, epidemics, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts and earthquakes have sprung to the top of presidential agendas.
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Scientists have denounced his claims as dangerous, saying they will lead to epidemics that kill children.
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I imagine that after decades of covering epidemics, you understood Covid-2017's severity early on.
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I imagine that after decades of covering epidemics, you understood Covid-19's severity early on.
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Epidemics taught us that citizen education is the first and most critical step for a solution.
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These kinds of "security-forward" responses are among the most common ways we deal with epidemics.
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The ban also eroded public trust in officials, which is crucial for containing epidemics like these.
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Historically, epidemics and pandemics are a short-term hit to markets and then they recover eventually.
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A lot of epidemics seem to come out of China, leading some to point accusing fingers.
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The time to prevent more epidemics is now, and countries are trying to seize the moment.
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Moreover, they say, most babies conceived during Zika epidemics in Latin America have been born healthy.
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What's more, the burden of HIV is compounded by the opioid epidemics significant impact on women.
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Other health epidemics, including cholera, measles and polio, as well as human trafficking, are flourishing there.
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Health experts are likely to quibble Trump's assessment of Pence's record as governor overseeing health epidemics.
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And they could serve as a base for managing crises such as epidemics and bioterrorism events.
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Each day, more of our nation's children fall into the dual epidemics of obesity and inactivity.
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One of the most frustrating is also the most preventable: the youth smoking and vaping epidemics.
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Measles epidemics have occurred this year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar and Ukraine.
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Today, parts of the country are still piles of rubble, facing cholera epidemics and widespread hunger.
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While other drug epidemics have succeeded crack, they haven't led to the same violent drug markets.
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Indonesia has one of the fastest growing HIV epidemics in Asia (the Philippines is the fastest).
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In the past we had so many threats of epidemics, bird flu, chicken flu and nothing happened.
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"We've gone through at least three rounds of these epidemics — SARS, MERS and this one," Bottazzi said.
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That divide has created what researchers call "two epidemics," making it even harder to find a solution.
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The country (excluding Hong Kong) has a dismal record of transparency relating to animal or human epidemics.
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"Mathematical modeling can provide strong insight into mechanisms of plague transmission for past epidemics," write the authors.
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Because epidemics feed feelings of powerlessness, politicians may feel they have to "do something," Yale's Omer said.
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The TPS program protects migrants from countries enduring crises such as health epidemics, war or natural disasters.
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This weakness has so far been mainly linked to long public holidays, cold weather and flu epidemics.
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Although that sometimes produced a full-blown lethal infection, it killed much less often than epidemics did.
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These epidemics followed a devastating outbreak in the Atlantic in 2002, which killed an estimated 30,000 seals.
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Are places that have decriminalized cannabis or legalized medical or recreational marijuana less prone to K2100 epidemics?
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"Epidemics like this take 25–50 years to develop — there's history of that in America," said Alvarez.
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The Global Fund is an international organization that fights to end the AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria epidemics.
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A particularly fraught question during epidemics is whether the causative pathogen will mutate to become more dangerous.
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Faced with a novel virus, it's worth reconsidering Italy's long experiences with epidemics and heeding the lessons.
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Epidemics are a time out of time, and perhaps less a moment to worry about screen time.
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The continent is currently waging battles against epidemics of measles and cholera, just to name a few.
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Many had experienced the 2003 SARS outbreak and had public health teams on alert for new epidemics.
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Millions of French parents have since refused to vaccinate their children, provoking an upsurge in measles epidemics.
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Personal protective gear and disinfection equipment, similar to that used during Ebola epidemics, also will be sent.
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In that case we're back to square one and new disruptive epidemics with COVID-19 may follow.
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Convicts labored barelegged in wet sugar cane fields, dying like flies in the periodic epidemics of fevers.
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Although epidemics have arisen during all of human history, they now seem to be on the rise.
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Epidemics have emerged in Iran, Italy and South Korea, where the number of cases is rapidly increasing.
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Epidemics have emerged in Iran, Italy, and South Korea, where the number of cases is rapidly increasing.
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"There is quite a fair amount of epidemics originating in China or passing through China," she said.
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With the Wuhan coronavirus, as with other epidemics past, quarantine measures may be too much too late.
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The 1918 pandemic offers few lessons for 2018 Severe influenza epidemics tend to occur every few decades.
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For the foreseeable future, flu epidemics will remain an annual feature of the rhythm of human life.
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They found that for two to three years after measles epidemics spiked, non-measles deaths also increased.
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If the bushfires also killed off the scavengers, the risk of transmission and potential epidemics goes up.
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The long-discussed idea was given new impetus by the back-to-back Ebola and Zika epidemics.
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That could have a "knock-on effect" for other ongoing epidemics such as Ebola, Ryan said Friday.
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"Over 10 years, it's entirely possible that we'll have new drug epidemics," Humphreys, of Stanford, told me.
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"This really is an epidemic of epidemics," said Dr. Michael Brumage, the Charleston health department's executive director.
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This could extend the duration of the current overdose epidemic far longer than we've seen with previous epidemics.
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"This also means that salt-coated masks could be stockpiled in preparation for pandemics and epidemics," Rubino said.
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Just like with the little boy who cries wolf, people are bound to notice too many phantom epidemics.
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"We don't really have the wherewithal to identify epidemics as they're beginning in the human population," Rosenberg says.
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It would not be at all surprising if a changing climate led to conditions that caused similar epidemics.
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He had been consumed, for years, by the panic of epidemics and the struggles of poorly developed countries.
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STDs and their resulting epidemics make for tumultuous and often ineffective public health policy in the United States.
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The plague, polio, smallpox – all were civilization-threatening epidemics until experimental scientists discovered new ways to combat them.
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But unlike previous epidemics, this outbreak of disease was not caused by a foreign bacteria or malignant virus.
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And in countries like Russia, the rejection of public health programs for drugs has fostered HIV/AIDS epidemics.
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Scientists are approaching wheat blast epidemics informed by how health officials try to manage virus outbreaks like Zika.
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The disease is endemic in 128 countries - compared with nine countries experiencing severe dengue epidemics prior to 1970.
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In Cuba the same remedy, and more effective sanitation, also removed the source of many of America's epidemics.
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State prison systems deal with overcrowding, stifling budget cuts, and drug epidemics that show no signs of abating.
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We need a sort of Manhattan Project to find definitive answers to the epidemics of diet-related disease.
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"This region is witnessing one of the two fastest-growing epidemics in the world," she told VICE News.
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I began working in public health 25 years ago, when the intertwined HIV and crack epidemics were peaking.
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Even before the dawn of modern printing presses, journalists, scientists, scholars, and others have been writing about epidemics.
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During previous epidemics, males were reported to have a worse clinical outcome due to SARS in Hong Kong.
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And as the Venezuelan health system has fallen apart, the government's ability to respond to epidemics has collapsed.
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Lee explained that perception leads many to believe Africa is the victim or source of epidemics and disease.
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Unlike in epidemics of the past, we have a commanding medical understanding of the nature of today's culprit.
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We need to come together to develop coordinated plans to respond to epidemics that erode our global infrastructure.
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Last year, during one of the worst flu epidemics in recent memory, that figure was just 40 percent.
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Most Italians have no direct experience of wars or epidemics, so they struggle to find a suitable reaction.
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With mechanistic approaches, people try to build models that are based on an understanding of how epidemics spread.
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The earliest civilizations certainly experienced local epidemics but probably not pandemics, since they remained isolated from one another.
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The agency might encourage certain areas to close down schools and rely on tele-learning during severe epidemics.
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And if similar past epidemics are any indication, a long-term ban could do more harm than good.
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Doctors and other health professionals who are at the frontlines of various epidemics and diseases need them more.
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The unit monitored epidemics and ensured that public health planning was coordinated within the more traditional security infrastructure.
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Access to health care is another top threat, as is the possibility of drug resistance and widespread epidemics.
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The goal is to spur wide adoption, particularly in developing countries, to detect potential epidemics before they start.
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Understanding epidemics not simply as biological events but also as social processes is key to their successful containment.
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To convince countries that preparedness pays, the report included estimates of the economic damage various epidemics had done.
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Australia had rolling epidemics of rubella over the years, with the most cases -- about 5,000 -- identified in 1958.
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SARS and MERS epidemics were caused by bat coronaviruses, as was a highly destructive viral epidemic in pigs.
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State and local authorities had previously been the ones to usually deal with issues like this during epidemics.
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In recent years, some researchers have focused on the particular role refined sugar may play in these epidemics.
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I had polio when I was eleven, in one of the last big epidemics before the Salk vaccine.
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That could have a "knock-on effect" for other ongoing epidemics such as Ebola, Ryan said last week.
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" Watch more from VICE: During historical influenza epidemics, it was common to refer to the "psychoses of influenza.
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"The natural arc of even the worst epidemics is that they are finite in duration," Mr. Posen said.
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Historical documents tell us that a series of horrible epidemics ravaged Mexico during the period of Spanish colonization.
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It can spread rapidly in areas with poor sanitation and has cause several historical global epidemics, or pandemics.
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Right now, America is in the grips of one of the deadliest seasonal flu epidemics in recent memory.
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They have also explored diagnostic fads, disappearing diseases like hysteria or sudden epidemics of ailments like attention deficit disorder.
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"Our suspicion is that it is likely the former, because of the obesity, hypertension and diabetes epidemics," Khan said.
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Few would argue with the fact that our diets have helped drive the obesity, diabetes, and heart disease epidemics.
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There have only been a few times — during war, cholera epidemics, or hyperinflation — when the country skipped the celebrations.
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Explosive viral epidemics, such as the flu, prove especially lethal when they tag team with bacterial infections like strep.
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Cholera epidemics have been a problem throughout history, but this year there were several outbreaks that sparked global concern.
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When developing countries don't have functioning health systems, epidemics like Zika or Ebola can spread and threaten Americans, too.
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People are also reluctant to use what water they do have to wash their hands, raising fears of epidemics.
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Hence the effects of a physical disaster can easily be compounded by longer-lasting problems of destitution and epidemics.
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Brazil is currently experiencing one of the most serious microcephaly epidemics, which has been connected to the Zika outbreak.
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The government has been hesitant to recognize that Russia is experiencing one of the world's fastest-growing HIV epidemics.
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One is what's causing the epidemics — what's the dietary or lifestyle trigger, because there must be one, or more.
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Addiction may be biological and sociological, but it is also economic, with particular epidemics emerging from particular trade arrangements.
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What they found: In Africa, cholera epidemics were traced to at least 11 different introductions from Asia since 1970.
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Superior medicines and public sanitation, along with state vaccination programmes, cut the impact of epidemics like smallpox and typhus.
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Yellow fever usually kills about 3 percent of its victims, although some epidemics have had much higher mortality rates.
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If health care had been adequately funded, perhaps Ukraine wouldn't have one of the world's fastest-growing H.I.V. epidemics.
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So it would seem that good things can be rather contagious—even more so, it seems, than harmful epidemics.
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Despite undergoing famine and cholera epidemics, North Korea surpassed its partners in making the enterprise attractive to foreign investors.
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"Easy availability of these compounds over the internet without a prescription is concerning because it will fuel these epidemics."
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Ending epidemics like AIDS, malaria, and other tropical diseases around the world will take even more ingenuity and coordination.
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Gun violence is a bigger threat than Ebola or Zika, two epidemics we were more than willing to address.
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The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) historically had the greatest capacity to intervene globally in epidemics.
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"It's organic, it's biological," the feminist writer Elaine Showalter, the author of "Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture," says.
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Isolated and impoverished North Korea has imposed strict entry bans during past global epidemics, including a 2014 ebola outbreak.
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These institutions have been under increasing scrutiny in recent years for a unique role they play in inflaming epidemics.
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BERLIN — The tradition has persisted for nearly two centuries in what is now Germany, through wars, epidemics and revolutions.
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Globalization made the world more vulnerable to the spread of infectious diseases, increasing the potential for catastrophic worldwide epidemics.
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""We've invested a huge amount in nuclear deterrents, but we've invested very little in a system to stop epidemics.
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"We still dispose of the well trained human resources that were able to rapidly control previous epidemics," it said.
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Medical experts agree that vaccines prevent epidemics, save lives, and are very safe, though complications occur in rare cases.
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Imperial College has advised the government on its response to previous epidemics, including SARS, avian flu and swine flu.
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These countries learned from previous epidemics like the 2003 SARS outbreak, and invested in disease surveillance and response systems.
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He talked about terrorist threats and keeping Americans safe but said nothing about the threat of epidemics and bioterrorism.
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With epidemics, the objective should not be to fight the last battle over again, but to learn from it.
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" There's a full-page graphic on the back cover that cites Islamic texts for "directives to deal with epidemics.
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The coronavirus outbreak may seem reminiscent of past global epidemics like SARS, MERS, swine flu, and the Zika virus.
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Mosquito-born epidemics, frequent beatings and a lack of medical care resulted in a 3 percent annual mortality rate.
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Cuba is renowned for its preparedness in advance of natural disasters such as epidemics, and for its medical prowess.
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Most Countries Are Not Using it: The World Health Organization is supposed to coordinate the global response to epidemics.
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Isolated and impoverished North Korea has imposed strict entry bans during past global epidemics, including a 2014 ebola outbreak.
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Scientists often describe these epidemics as a sort of iceberg — their girth and true shape hidden below the surface.
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Ebola and Zika have taught us that devastating epidemics aren't just a threat to those in far off lands.
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It has been accepted by the W.H.O. and stockpiled for epidemics like the one that struck Haiti in 2010.
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The epidemics in China and Iran probably would have been caught and acted upon earlier in less authoritarian countries.
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G.T.: I'm arguing the reason we've failed to curb the obesity and diabetes epidemics is we've misunderstood the cause.
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As with previous epidemics, such as the Influenza epidemic of 1918, the death rate is highest amongst young adults.
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The Philippines has one of the fastest growing HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world, according to the United Nations.
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Populations which have been exposed to large outbreaks develop immunity to the virus, limiting the size of subsequent epidemics.
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Not only are there extremely effective treatments, but a vaccine accepted by the W.H.O. is being stockpiled for epidemics.
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As a result, other health epidemics, including cholera, measles and polio, as well as human trafficking, are flourishing there.
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Then came the heroin and crack epidemics that turned gangs into lucrative drug-trafficking organizations that fought over territory.
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This should allow health officials to again use what has become the greatest weapon against Ebola epidemics to date.
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"We know that is possible but we do not believe that is a major driver of transmission," she told a Geneva news briefing...If we look at the actual epidemics and how these epidemics are unfolding, if they were a major driver of transmission it would have caused much larger numbers of cases.
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"We know that is possible but we do not believe that is a major driver of transmission," she told a Geneva news briefing...If we look at the actual epidemics and how these epidemics are unfolding, if they were a major driver of transmission it would have caused much larger numbers of cases.
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Small but intense epidemics erupted each time it hit a new island where residents had no immunity to the virus.
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Though epidemics have occurred in Africa, Asia, and South America, most human cases since the 1990s have occurred in Africa.
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Federal and state governments have, particularly since the 1970s, tended to respond to drug epidemics with "tough on crime" measures.
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By combining the new maps with other public health data, Facebook believes organizations will be better equipped to address epidemics.
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Why it matters: The study projects that the three epidemics are on track to kill 1.6 million Americans by 2025.
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"We're fatter than we've ever been, and we have diseases, epidemics of chronic diseases, related to sugar consumption," Schmidt said.
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The researchers then subtracted already-identified viruses and created a heat map that shows where undiscovered epidemics might be lurking.
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The ministry says there is no indication the two epidemics separated by more than 2,500 kilometers (1,553 miles) are related.
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What is wiping out amphibians and bats qualify as plagues; the deaths of whales and dolphins, epidemics of multiple causes.
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As medicine strides forward, we spend more time just sitting around, leading to new health epidemics, like obesity and diabetes.
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Global views on abortion continue to dictate how we treat any public health epidemics that affect women and their uteruses.
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Decreased U.S. funding will undoubtedly result in significant setbacks, making us lose ground on epidemics we can't afford to ignore.
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Others will avoid or delay treatment for contagious illnesses, accelerating the spread of disease outbreaks for flu or worse epidemics.
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The city developed India's first vector-borne disease surveillance system to counter risks from epidemics such as malaria and Zika.
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Planning for epidemics, animal or human, is to a large extent based on what a disease did the last time.
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In the history of epidemics, it is unprecedented for a virus to be spread through an insect vector and sexually.
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Compared with these earlier epidemics, today's prescription opioid crisis is less respectful of the usual economic and racial-ethnic boundaries.
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Polio is a hot-weather disease, and there were irregular but frequent summer epidemics until vaccines ended the polio era.
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Hopefully this teaches us a lesson that we need to become better prepared for epidemics, because clearly we are not.
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"We know that to be that to be true in other public health epidemics like the opioid crisis," Hernandez said.
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They are high-tech versions of the "iron lungs" that kept people alive into the 216s during fierce polio epidemics.
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They are high-tech versions of the "iron lungs" that kept people alive into the 216s during fierce polio epidemics.
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How wonderful if the surging acceleration of our times (in digital capacity, epidemics, chaos in general) is being described mathematically!
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But the incarceration approach has been around for decades — and it hasn't stopped massive drug epidemics like the current crisis.
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Looking back: One of our former correspondents examined notable epidemics of the past century, like the Spanish Flu and Ebola.
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"The corona crisis shows that, without clear guidance, federalism in the fight against epidemics is reaching its limits," Bild wrote.
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"The corona crisis shows that, without clear guidance, federalism in the fight against epidemics is reaching its limits," Bild wrote.
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This turns the steeply rising curves of rapidly growing epidemics into straighter lines — making it easier to compare their trajectories.
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As it has across the country, the heroin and fentanyl epidemics have upended families from all socioeconomic backgrounds in Suffolk.
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At least some of the blame for the scale of these epidemics lands squarely on profiteering shoulders of tenement owners.
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Plague is a lot less common now than it was in centuries past, when millions died in repeated plague epidemics.
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They are, though, constantly battling against the three societal epidemics and the expectations that nature can be boxed and controlled.
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Resolve to Save Lives works with countries to prevent 240 million deaths and to make the world safer from epidemics.
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We posed some questions to Donald McNeil, a Times reporter who has covered epidemics and pandemics for nearly two decades.
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Bell has seen the league grapple with gambling scandals, doping epidemics, contract disputes, on-field violence, labor strife and more.
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As we confront this surge in deaths, we must be careful not to repeat the mistakes of past drug epidemics.
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Typically, national emergency declarations are held for immediate, short-term crises like hurricanes and contagious disease epidemics, such as H278.5N213.
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TPS protects people in the US from having to return to countries hit by war, epidemics and other natural disasters.
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The MERS epidemics in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and in South Korea in 2015 together claimed more than 800 lives.
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The deadly sexually transmitted infection is another consequence of the heroin and methamphetamine epidemics, as users trade sex for drugs.
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Despite many inflammatory headlines, this new virus does not appear to be terribly deadly in the grand scheme of epidemics.
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According to Shearing, past epidemics show that China's economy is likely to take a significant hit in the first quarter.
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Conservationists see a persistent threat of epidemics so long as tens of millions of animals are traded in Southeast Asia.
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Public health officials worried about in-flight spread of disease during epidemics of SARS and Ebola, both potentially deadly illnesses.
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In 1986, she started at the Yale School of Drama, but the AIDS and crack epidemics overshadowed her time there.
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The national opioid and obesity epidemics are both significant parts of the story, but neither amount to a smoking gun.
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Infectious disease epidemics such as Ebola outbreaks in Africa or Zika spreading from Brazil, are sporadic, unpredictable and fast-moving.
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Containment, prevention and evidence-based treatment of epidemics are national security matters that we cannot afford to underestimate or underfund.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Epidemics are catastrophic for humans, and it turns out they aren't much better for healthcare companies.
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In the past, measles was a common infection that caused major epidemics every few years and killed millions of people annually.
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More importantly, it would help health agencies respond more quickly to epidemics and speed the development of new treatments, for example.
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Why it matters: As seen last season, flu epidemics can be quite deadly and their intensity is caused by several factors.
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This was the first state trial attempting to hold a pharmaceutical company accountable for one of the worst epidemics in history.
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I know, I know: Budget shortfalls are affecting lots of important projects, not just those aimed at preventing epidemics of disease.
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With one of Europe's fastest-growing HIV epidemics and many other health emergencies, this was a burden Ukraine could not afford.
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Wang said the outbreak's mortality rate, of less than 2.1% until now, was far lower than that for other major epidemics.
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If enough people don't get vaccinated, pathogens are much more likely to find suitable hosts and cause big outbreaks or epidemics.
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This segregation of epidemics occurred until the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, when movement -- and transmission --promptly changed.
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Ebola is just one of many horrendous pathogens, including Lassa fever, Marburg fever, SARS and Nipah virus, that could become epidemics.
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Epidemics are inevitable, but there are ways we can mitigate how and to what extent they affect communities across the globe.
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He made a computer model that predicted how flu epidemics might follow suit, and look different depending where they took place.
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By shifting funds around without making long-term plans for new diseases, the country is ultimately less prepared for future epidemics.
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Inextricably linked by the interactions at the level of the host immune system, there are many similarities in these two epidemics.
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Since the 1980s, for instance, devastating and prolonged crack cocaine and methamphetamine epidemics have destroyed and destabilized communities across the country.
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The response to drug epidemics exemplifies just one way in which race can shape so much of American politics and policy.
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In retrospect, the polio epidemics that began striking Europe in the 19th century probably signaled improving conditions, not a new pandemic.
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"These are in some ways separate epidemics, but in many ways they are two sides of the same coin," Alexander said.
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We also know that an effective health system can help prevent, detect, and respond to outbreaks so they don't become epidemics.
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His treatment and transformation represent hope and our ability to stop the devastation and spread of the HIV and TB epidemics.
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They also work for the C.D.C., to monitor and respond to epidemics, and provide medical expertise during emergencies, such as hurricanes.
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Like many other disease epidemics, gonorrhea has been kept under relative control over the years thanks to "wonder drugs," or antibiotics.
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We urged establishment of an HHS emergency fund for fighting epidemics here and abroad, eliminating prolonged waits for Congressional emergency appropriations.
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We need to be prepared — not only against pandemics, but epidemics that threaten to become pandemics and to anticipate potential unknowns.
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Two price drivers Cosgrove mentioned are health epidemics, such as obesity, opioid abuse and smoking, and the rising cost of drugs.
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Nowadays, the director of the C.D.C., which was created in 1942, is usually the most visible health official, especially during epidemics.
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Because of the success of our prevention efforts, it is easy to dismiss epidemics as an issue in the developing world.
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But the incarceration approach has been around for decades — and it hasn't stopped massive drug epidemics like the current opioid crisis.
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And so on, down to our times, when epidemics like Ebola, SARS and Zika fueled animus toward specific regions or peoples.
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Melina caught up with Donald G. McNeil Jr., our infectious diseases reporter who has been covering epidemics for nearly two decades.
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Venezuela has a particularly low score for early detection and reporting epidemics because there isn't evidence of ongoing surveillance of diseases.
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It isn't divine retribution, though people in the grip of epidemics usually turn to simple stories like that, because they're scared.
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It is the first state trial attempting to hold a pharmaceutical company accountable for one of the worst epidemics in history.
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Our approach is non-mechanistic — it makes very few assumptions about how epidemics spread and it focuses more on past examples.
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Countries struggling to manage their COVID-19 epidemics can learn something from Taipei's swift, multifaceted response to the virus, experts say.
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Universal coverage not only saves the lives of children from measles, but it also serves as a global bulwark against epidemics.
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What we see are epidemics in different parts of the world, affecting countries in different ways and requiring a tailored response.
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Throughout Chinese medicine's development, famines in the Middle Kingdom wiped out millions at a time — more regularly than war or epidemics.
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The crises they face largely include armed conflict, disease epidemics, and natural disasters, and so far see no signs of stopping.
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Today the world is underinvesting in efforts to end the biggest epidemics; an expanded effort is needed to get on track.
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Obesity, a chronic disease, is held to a different standard, despite meeting most of the criteria popularly associated with other epidemics.
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SW: History does not tell us we should expect major epidemics with millions infected, like we are seeing in South America.
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The announcement reflected the administration's growing concerns about one of the few public health epidemics to substantially worsen during President Obama's tenure.
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The engineers of the world's HIV response in the early 2000s knew that they were laying the groundwork to combat future epidemics.
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Other countries with ongoing cholera epidemics include Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Tanzania.
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The epidemics in Germany and Mongolia affected older people, highlighting the need to vaccinate young adults who missed out on measles jabs.
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The Obama administration did not follow through on this epidemic with the typical "tough on crime" rhetoric that plagued old drug epidemics.
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"There are no widespread epidemics of untreatable disease among humans because of antibiotics in livestock feeds," insisted a representative of American Cyanamid.
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Those epidemics, which were largely talked about as problems affecting low-income minority communities, weren't met with sensitive coverage or forgiving policies.
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I didn't yet realize that my relative's addictions were a result of both the epidemics that engulfed their community and their genetics.
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It was able to accurately identify places where epidemics have already broken out, like the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon.
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" Ask pretty much any public health expert what to do about drug epidemics, and they'll all say the same thing: "harm reduction.
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"Left unchecked, diphtheria can cause devastating epidemics, mainly affecting children," Tarik Jasarevic, a WHO spokesman, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by email.
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The building of a unified network of sewers in the 1850s-70s undoubtedly saved London from further epidemics of cholera and typhoid.
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Incremental progress, however fitful, was made for the next century, but epidemics of crack, HIV and urban violence threatened to reverse it.
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Health state of emergency declarations are designed to lift regulations that limit access to needed medications, like during epidemics of infectious disease.
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Even clear, direct scientific solutions to food crises and health epidemics push against the weight of thousands of years of cultural identity.
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When the United States invests in strengthening health systems abroad, it also makes deadly epidemics less likely to land on our shores.
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As their fads have come and gone, the obesity and diabetes epidemics have only worsened, and, on average, Americans still aren't exercising.
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"The international community must react and help save Yemen from one of the worst medical epidemics in the world today," he says.
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Past epidemics were also often presaged or accompanied by a major rise in arrestees testing positive for the drug of the moment.
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We've previously detailed on MUNCHIES how packaged, prepared foods are destroying our health and contributing to epidemics such as diabetes and obesity.
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With opioid epidemics raging in many states, conversations about drug overdoses and prescription pills have become a regular feature of nightly newscasts.
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Trump has the power under U.S. law to act on his own to address emergencies such as natural disasters, war and epidemics.
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I serve the people who created Obamacare, people who treat epidemics and devise ways to make the world healthier and more humane.
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"This will/could allow pockets where the infection can grab a foot hold and even lead to small regional epidemics," Bartone said.
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Ward, who is also responsible for the bonkers album illustration, says that the song is about animal experimentation and major disease epidemics.
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In response to the AIDS epidemics in the 1980s, many countries introduced restrictions on entry against HIV-infected travelers and foreign workers.
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The airstrikes have crippled the country's infrastructure and created the conditions for one of the world's worst cholera epidemics in 50 years.
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The news of coronavirus epidemics around the world involves a flood of numbers that are a challenge for any nonscientist to digest.
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She said that understanding how diseases spread can be data-heavy work, but it is an important component in preventing dangerous epidemics.
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"All countries must take a comprehensive blended strategy for controlling their epidemics and pushing this deadly virus back," he said in part.
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If there is one key lesson from past epidemics, it's that getting real-time data is essential for a great epidemic response.
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A Conversation With... The former Act Up campaigner is now an epidemiologist — and MacArthur grantee — searching for new ways to halt epidemics.
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Epidemics hold up a mirror to the societies in which they spread, and many Americans are facing historic disruption to their lives.
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By acting now, we can help control COVID-19 around the world, mitigate its effects here at home, and prevent future epidemics.
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While Italy and South Korea are struggling to contain worsening epidemics, the situation in China has started to show signs of stabilizing.
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"The epidemics in the Republic of Korea, Italy, Iran and Japan are our greatest concern," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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We sat down with our infectious diseases reporter, Donald G. McNeil Jr., who has covered epidemics and pandemics for nearly two decades.
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But experts say that in epidemics, overbearing measures can backfire, scaring infected people into hiding and making the outbreak harder to control.
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Its extensive transport and trade links to the rest of the world make it particularly relevant in the case of global epidemics.
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"It looks kind of like a pair of epidemics — two different outbreaks of a disease called pessimism or financial uncertainty," he said.
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As the Ebola outbreak demonstrated, the CDC's critical role in controlling epidemics globally to protect Americans here at home must be protected.
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Other theories around the environmental pressure of climate change or even epidemics maintain those reasons could have helped Neanderthals to go extinct.
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Dedicated leaders and frontline health workers are demonstrating new ways to improve heart health, reduce smoking, encourage healthier eating and prevent epidemics.
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Public hospitals ensured that even the indigent received good medical care — health problems for some could turn into epidemics for us all.
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The natural world has unleashed epidemics like Sars, Zika, Ebola, and the Spanish flu, which killed millions of people exactly 100 years ago.
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It is sharing maps showing human movement and population density with researchers and health organizations trying to tackle epidemics and outbreaks of illness.
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Rising heat poses another threat - one that is far less known and studied but could spark disease epidemics across the continent, scientists say.
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But by 300 AD, an unfortunate mixture of war, epidemics, and crop failures meant that most of the city had to be abandoned.
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Fungal spores traveling longer distances could affect large numbers of flies, and might be an interesting model for studying epidemics, Dr. Hajek said.
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"Who cares about the obesity and diabetes epidemics, as long as the cash keeps rolling in," the center wrote on its awards page.
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These can lead to the breakdown of health systems, leaving people vulnerable to epidemics and emergencies and without access to primary health care.
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The communities that face these issues are one and the same, and there is more that we can do to address both epidemics.
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The list serves as a warning to governments that research and development needs to be an integral part of the response to epidemics.
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The study took a closer look at situations like the Donner Party, when people were faced with extreme conditions, like famines or epidemics.
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We don't spend enough time trying to understand why and how previous epidemics occurred or capturing information about them as they are unfolding.
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Certainly line up with the president on that when you think about gangs like MS-13, drugs, sex trafficking epidemics in our state.
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Now, physicists at the Max Planck Institute and University of California, Santa Barbara are using data from the WheresGeorge site to track epidemics.
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Some funds will also target programs overseas, which in an era of rapidly spreading contagions is fundamental to preventing epidemics on our shores.
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John-Arne Rottingen, CEPI's interim boss, argues that paying to prepare for future epidemics is like buying a form of global health insurance.
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Briscoe has been a vehement defender of sugar, pushing back against criticism stemming from its links to health epidemics like obesity and diabetes.
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Government officials told the Post that staffers abroad began receiving instructions about two weeks ago to start downsizing activities aimed at preventing epidemics.
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Countries that will see scaled-back efforts include Congo, Haiti, Rwanda and China, all nations that are considered hot spots for potential epidemics.
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In Ethiopia, the government has spent the past several decades pressuring N.G.O.s into complying with its coverups of epidemics and a possible famine.
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That war only tarnishes America's image on the "Arab street," amplifies famine and cholera epidemics, and empowers al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
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As our country finds itself in the midst of one of the worst opioid epidemics, Mexico is an important partner in this fight.
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"It's usually done to … address health epidemics and Congress cannot act quickly enough, so they'll use money quickly to do something," he continued.
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I hope we will take their deaths as a urgent call, and marshal a more robust public health response to these twin epidemics.
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Some may be wondering if they should be fleeing to the countryside, as people have done in the past in times of epidemics.
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The coronavirus is not a mortal disease and the fatality rate is relatively lower than other epidemics, although it is spreading like wildfire.
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No end is in sight, despite the use of promising antiviral drugs and a vaccine that were not widely available in past epidemics.
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The type of deadly Ebola virus responsible for recent epidemics has been found in a bat in West Africa, Liberian health officials announced.
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In response, Mexico's foreign ministry questioned where Bukele had obtained his information and said Mexico had always acted with great responsibility on epidemics.
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Mathematicians then modeled this to simulate the spread of a flu-like virus, as described in this scientific paper for the journal Epidemics.
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Variety reported that the festival recently declined to purchase a "buy-back option covering epidemics and pandemics" from its insurance company, Circle Group.
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It's also the grievous loss of life, widespread panic, and uncertainty surrounding epidemics—the effects of which linger long after the outbreak subsides.
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Because of the higher death rates, widespread coronavirus epidemics could take a heavy toll, so the health authorities scramble to stamp them out.
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The latter say they favor spending more chiefly for two reasons: to protect America from epidemics and to improve the nation's image abroad.
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If, that is, politically motivated shootings and bombings in big cities were fantastical tropes or metaphorical conceits, like zombie epidemics or extraterrestrial invasions.
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One way that dictatorships may try to deal with epidemics moving forward is to ramp up their already considerable technological surveillance of citizens.
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"What we see is epidemics in different parts of the world, affecting countries in different ways and requiring a tailored response," Tedros said.
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"What we see is epidemics in different parts of the world, affecting countries in different ways and requiring a tailored response," he said.
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He guided the US through the AIDS and Ebola epidemics, and is now helping to lead the response to the new coronavirus outbreak.
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Asked how she would have handled recent epidemics, Dr. Nishtar said she "would have issued the wake-up call on Ebola" much earlier.
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With climate change and a growing human population, "I think we are going to see more epidemics" of mosquito-borne illness, Hill said.
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The history goes back to the 28500 International Sanitary Conference in Paris that followed the cholera epidemics in Europe between 6900 and 2628.
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TPS protects migrants in the United States from countries that have been hit by dire conditions, such as epidemics, war or natural disaster.
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Second, while the primary goal of global health programs is to save lives, investing in ending epidemics has considerable economic return on investment.
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"We should be much better prepared for such 'natural' epidemics, as they probably pose a more serious threat to human health than bioterrorism."
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Fortified shelters, built to withstand catastrophic events from viral epidemics to nuclear war, seem to be experiencing a wave of interest in general.
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Even when workers come back, Chinese businesses may find overseas demand slumping for their exports because of worsening coronavirus epidemics in other countries.
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Public health initiatives followed these epidemics, including the formation of the Board of Health, better street-cleaning and improvements to municipal water quality.
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The strain was, however, distantly related to strains of cholera bacteria that are causing current outbreaks and have sparked epidemics in the past.
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"We've had two major waves of cholera epidemics in recent years, and unfortunately the trend data that we've seen in the last days to weeks suggests that we may be on the cusp of the third major wave of cholera epidemics in Yemen," Dr. Peter Salama, WHO deputy director-general of emergency preparedness and response, told a UN briefing in Geneva, Switzerland.
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"We've had two major waves of cholera epidemics in recent years, and unfortunately the trend data that we've seen in the last days to weeks suggests that we may be on the cusp of the third major wave of cholera epidemics in Yemen," Peter Salama, WHO deputy director-general of emergency preparedness and response, told a UN briefing in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Instead, epidemics always involve interactions among genes, ecology, climate and human behavior, presenting profound difficulties for scientists trying to tease apart the contributing factors.
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Maybe the Pie Tops represent the idea that technology, which has contributed to our sedentary nature and obesity epidemics, can help reverse the trend.
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"It's important to note that our analysis was not designed to predict precisely what will happen with flu epidemics under climate change," he said.
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However, the president can make quick decisions during emergencies under a patchwork of laws in specific situations such as war, natural disasters and epidemics.
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Some countries are reluctant to report epidemics in the earliest phases, mindful not to create a panic and also worried about possible economic impact.
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" WATCH: Rose McGowan Reacts to Seeing Harvey Weinstein in Handcuffs: It's 'a Very Good Feeling' "We understand sexual harassment and assault are global epidemics.
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The main infectious disease epidemics to look out for: Measles: More than 40,000 measles cases occurred in Europe in the first half of 2018.
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"Most malaria epidemics follow abnormal weather conditions, often in combination with other causes, including increased resistance of the parasite to antimalarial drugs," he said.
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As recent Ebola and Zika epidemics have demonstrated, governmental and traditional funding cycles are too slow and unresponsive to time-sensitive global health issues.
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"Climate change is already influencing the frequency of heatwaves, flooding events and famines, as well as epidemics of vector- and waterborne diseases," he said.
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Nigeria is one of the 26 countries within the extensive region of sub-Saharan Africa known as the "meningitis belt," where large epidemics occur.
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Epidemics are influenced by a wide host of factors, and every region, with its own distinct population, is going to be a little different.
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If past drug epidemics are any predictor, sensational media coverage of babies' drug withdrawal will lead to more moms like Cassie losing child custody.
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Annual flu epidemics cause three to five million cases of severe illness worldwide and 250,000-500,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Big, unpredictable epidemics were a part of American life for as long as America existed, going back to Philadelphia's yellow-fever epidemic in 1793.
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Moreover, the consequences of climate incidents, such as flooding, can threaten public health with poor sanitation, diseases and epidemics, and disrupt global supply chains.
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Industrialized countries need to provide the money to come up with a faster production process and increased capacity to handle this and future epidemics.
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In a recent interview, Andrew Witty, the chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, who is retiring in March, talked about prices, epidemics and other health issues.
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The unyielding effect of HIPAA is one of omission that impairs the ability of public agencies to control and manage epidemics like COVID-19.
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From his vantage point, the attitude toward the opioid deaths today is still influenced by racialized attitudes about the crack and heroin epidemics before.
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Perhaps most concerning is evidence that low levels of trust can weaken the ability of governments and public health agencies to respond to epidemics.
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Background: We also looked back at a century of epidemics, including the 1918 Spanish Flu and Ebola, to give context to the current one.
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Epidemics among malnourished children who cannot get modern hospital care have mortality rates of 10 percent or more, according to the World Health Organization.
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"To suppress and control epidemics, countries must isolate, test, treat and trace," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday, according to the BBC.
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It may be "too late," Dr. Ki said, for countries deep into epidemics to control outbreaks as quickly or efficiently as South Korea has.
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Epidemics have been declared in seven out of the country's 17 regions: Calabarzon, Mimaropa, Bicol, Western Visayas, Eastern Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, and Northern Mindanao.
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In the past, declarations of this kind have been used for epidemics of severe illness threatening to become pandemics as they cross international borders.
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Though the country faces stigma for being at the center of some of the world's biggest viral epidemics, its health system has made strides.
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According to experts, as people continue to trade wildlife, encroach on habitats, and interact with animals, epidemics like the current outbreak will keep happening.
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"Jeremy Farrar, a specialist in infectious-disease epidemics at the Wellcome Trust health charity, told Reuters: "There is more to come from this outbreak.
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Our national sugar habit is the driving force behind the diabetes and obesity epidemics and may be a contributing factor to cancer and Alzheimer's.
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He added that the study did not predict "what will happen with flu epidemics under climate change," since future effects on humidity are uncertain.
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Many times in many countries, political leaders have tried to censor health officials and play down the risks of infection just as epidemics approached.
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In its annual filing, published on February 13, Tesla at least acknowledged single-source suppliers and health epidemics as material risks to its business.
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Minimizing these health threats at the source can help prevent further destabilization in already fragile settings and prevent localized outbreaks from becoming global epidemics.
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Landlocked between India and China in a geologically vulnerable spot, Nepal is a small country prone to flooding, landslides, fires, epidemics, earthquakes, and avalanches.
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The program covers migrants in the US from countries that have been hit by dire conditions, such as epidemics, civil war or natural disasters.
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"With climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth, our own planet is increasingly precarious," he said in a BBC documentary last year.
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The global nature of the industry makes it uniquely vulnerable to a multitude of elements ranging from insufficient infrastructure to disease epidemics to politics.
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But addressing the root causes of drug use could at least help stop future epidemics, even if it'll come too late for the opioid crisis.
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It was a fascination that began with her work on childhood ailments that tend to show up as seasonal epidemics, like measles, chickenpox, and polio.
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We live in a small, increasingly fragile, massively interdependent planet, fraught with complex cross-border problems such as terrorism, epidemics, refugee crises and climate change.
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But the outbreak is a reminder of what can happen when our short-term planning for epidemics collides with the rapid globalization of tropical diseases.
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"We must all learn from this experience to improve how we respond to future epidemics and to neglected diseases," said Joanne Liu, MSF's international president.
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But the truth is that my uncles were poor and black, as were many of the people affected by the previous heroin and crack epidemics.
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Primary prevention is also key, through increased awareness and healthier lifestyle choices, This, in turn, would benefit other disease epidemics, such as obesity and diabetes.
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That could have a "knock-on effect" for other ongoing epidemics such as Ebola, Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO's emergencies program, said Friday.
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That could have a "knock-on effect" for other ongoing epidemics such as Ebola, Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO's emergencies program, said Friday.
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Epidemics and pandemics can do it, as the Black Death did when it changed the relative values of land and labour in late medieval Europe.
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There are four types of influenza: A, B, C, and D, but it's influenza A and B that typically cause seasonal flu epidemics among humans.
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The WHO describes diphtheria as a widespread, severe infectious disease that has the potential for epidemics, with a mortality rate of up to 10 percent.
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The World Health Organization said on Tuesday governments should raise taxes on sugary drinks to fight what it says are global obesity and diabetes epidemics.
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Josie Golding, head of epidemics at the Wellcome Trust, said "we could run out of Merck vaccines" if the outbreak extends into a second year.
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It says the camp is unsustainable, that conditions put the refugees there at risk of disease epidemics, fire, community tension and domestic and sexual violence.
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New national data compiled by the Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond, author of "Evicted," suggests that America's worst eviction epidemics are not in expensive, coastal cities.
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Listen, I've been working in teen suicide prevention for almost six years and I grew up in an area that had epidemics of teen suicides.
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And the presence of fentanyl in the drug supply is killing larger numbers of users than past epidemics, making today's addiction problem much more visible.
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Superspreaders also fueled epidemics of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, in 2003 and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in 2012, according to the study.
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Dr. Atai-Omoruto had helped treat patients during cholera and earlier Ebola epidemics, including one in Kibaale, Uganda, in 2012, before she went to Liberia.
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The program covers migrants in the US of countries that have been hit by dire conditions, such as an epidemics, civil war or natural disasters.
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Influenza B is among the viruses that cause seasonal epidemics most winters in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The current crisis, like previous suicide epidemics in the town in 463 and 1987, is the result of problems generations in the making, she said.
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To that end, the World Health Organization recommends that countries with HIV epidemics and low circumcision rates offer the procedure to their citizens for free.
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From response and coordination to public communication, we found that our country was unprepared to face pandemics (epidemics that affect large parts of the globe).
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"Nursing homes are incubators of epidemics," said Betsy McCaughey, a former lieutenant governor of New York who heads the nonprofit Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths.
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That is to say, even before Covid-19, we were all already living in the presence of vast public health epidemics: gun violence, poverty, homelessness.
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Even then, it's not enough to provide immigrant communities the support they need during epidemics like this, as resources remain scarce and misinformation runs rampant.
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"During peacetime, we plan for epidemics like this," Lalitha Kurupatham, the deputy director of the communicable diseases division in Singapore, told the New York Times.
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As Frank M. Snowden recounted in his book Epidemics and Society, New Yorkers began demanding that public school students be tested for fever every morning.
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Global leaders will need to be tackle these issues in future G7 and G20 summits if they hope to successfully battle these new disease epidemics.
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Dozens of isolated indigenous communities in Canada have recently declared states of emergency due to suicide epidemics, unclean water, and a lack of adequate infrastructure.
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They have worked to combat the Ebola virus in Africa and cholera in Haiti, as well as having responded to natural disasters and other epidemics.
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Tens of thousands of tourists visit Eyam each year to admire its villagers' historic sacrifice and to learn about an era ravaged by plague epidemics.
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Since the SARS and MERS epidemics, some insurance companies added a provision that said if a pandemic breaks out the bride and groom can cancel.
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Chen said epidemics may bring risks to social stability and recommended that the government took precautions and made early plans to ensure peace and stability.
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Almost all insurance contracts covering companies, such as business interruption, supply-chain breakdown, cancellation of events or failure to deliver, exclude epidemics, according to FFA.
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The funding will go to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), an organization founded in 2017 to develop vaccines that can stop future epidemics.
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Annual influenza epidemics result in three to five million cases of severe illness worldwide and 250,000-500,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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Mr. Lewis, meanwhile, argues that the continued destruction of the smallest bacteria in our gut biomes risks deadly epidemics of chronic or drug-resistant diseases.
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Next we take a journey into the archives to see how people have dealt with epidemics throughout history and offer historic context to current events.
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Sadly, the DRC is not the only place where persistent and brutal conflicts hobble campaigns to fight epidemics, eliminate disease and deliver basic health care.
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Though the world is armed with antiviral drugs and antibiotics, Gates has said, new vaccines would likely be necessary to address and prevent future epidemics.
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The country's improvement of benchmarks of independent media, civil society and free speech will be required to prevent and respond to this and other epidemics.
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In the next month or two, we will see how easily newly introduced seed cases are able to establish local epidemics outside the Chinese mainland.
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Much of the world is flying blindly as developing countries struggle to contain resurgent old infections and to identify new ones before they become epidemics.
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Well, for starters, recent increases in sugar consumption are always at the scene of the crime on a population-wide level when these epidemics occur.
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The core problem lying at the heart of both the opioid and tobacco epidemics is that scientists have not identified the molecular basis of addiction.
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After all, cheeseburgers and pizza are loaded with calories, saturated fat, and sodium, and they are fueling America's epidemics of obesity, heart disease, and hypertension.
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The league's collective bargaining agreement allows the N.B.A. to reduce player salaries by 1/92.6th for each game missed because of, among other things, epidemics.
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Addiction and xenophobia begin to operate as parallel social epidemics, and it's here that the novel outgrows its own boundaries, becoming stranger and more robust.
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Major dating networks like Tinder and Grindr have been slow to respond to these epidemics, but a number of other sites have been moving ahead.
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Under Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO's new director general, the organization has improved its work on epidemics and is acting in a more transparent fashion.
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The overall mortality rate (shaded in gray) increases uniformly (dotted line) despite the variations in the "sub-epidemics" of different drugs in different times (colored blocks).
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Yet containing pandemics - diseases that spread globally compared with epidemics that are localized - would cost about $1 per person per year in investment, the Bank said.
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"Our experience is that virus epidemics do not scare visitors away inasmuch as they feel that health protocols and timely advisories are in place," she said.
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The Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which raged for over two years and killed more than 10,000 people, was one of the worst epidemics in history.
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The 2019 list includes things like infectious disease epidemics and drug-resistant superbugs as well as potentially preventable health problems, such as heart and lung disease.
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Although health insurers normally incorporate mortality risk associated with seasonal influenza into their premium rates, they do not typically incorporate an expectation for epidemics or pandemics.
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In an epidemics when a huge number of person are attacked by acute and similar sufferings from similar cause, Homeopathy can be of great prophylactic help.
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That's more drug overdose deaths than any other period in US history — even more than past heroin epidemics, the crack epidemic, or the recent meth epidemic.
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Geneva-based, the Global Fund is a public-private partnership set up in 2002 that has made considerable progress in tackling epidemics of deadly infectious diseases.
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Other countries like France that faced opioid overdose epidemics in the past have been able to cut deaths by 80 percent by providing widespread buprenorphine access.
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" She added, "Racial bias distorts our response and … made it so we did not create the infrastructure and the policy understanding during the earlier drug epidemics.
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"There have been epidemics of adulteration of drugs throughout the US," says Peter Chai, toxicologist and assistant professor of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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It killed millions of people in the 20th century, in a series of devastating epidemics as well as the slower, persistent death tolls of endemic disease.
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For the study, the researchers recruited 924 mostly male participants between 13 and 24 from fourteen adolescent medicine clinics in U.S. cities with established HIV epidemics.
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The report identified a steady rise and spread of tick-borne diseases, whereas the occurrence of mosquito-borne diseases was dispersed and more punctuated by epidemics.
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These failures are disturbing because epidemics of diet-related disease will shorten life expectancy and impose huge economic costs on the United States in coming years.
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Governor Pence let scores of Indianans become infected with H.I.V. from shared needles before finally acquiescing to the evidence that clean needle exchanges prevent H.I.V. epidemics.
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That is the only feasible long-term solution to prevent such potentially disastrous epidemics from reaching the Yanomami and other tribes is by protecting their land.
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In an era of fake drug epidemics, mephedrone was a bonafide drug craze, a narcotic landmark that most young people at the time still talk about.
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"The good news is that with advances in biotechnology, new vaccines and drugs can help prevent epidemics from spreading out of control," Gates said in 2017.
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Chowkwanyun: So in the mid 19th century, for example, shortly before the Civil War, it was actually the Irish who were often blamed for cholera epidemics.
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Hurricanes, nuclear wars, stock market plunges, epidemics, terror attacks, earthquakes and currency collapses: The headlines prepare us for all of these by rehearsing them in advance.
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She is working on a book, due out this fall, looking at how urban landscapes have been designed in response to epidemics, from cholera to obesity.
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Convalescent plasma transfusions have been used in previous outbreaks, including against the H1N1 flu, as well as the original SARS and MERS epidemics, with varying results.
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Up until this most recent outbreak, Zika fell somewhere between Ebola and the common flu on the spectrum of public health epidemics to freak out about.
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" Dr. Ilunga said in his statement that "at this stage, there is no indication that these two epidemics, separated by more than 2,500 kilometers, are related.
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For just $28500 per person per year in lower-income countries, we can drastically reduce the impact of this pandemic and the risk of future epidemics.
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And on social networks and the media alike, she has also been lauded as the patroness of plagues and epidemics, an attribution that is likely untrue.
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But Candida Moss, a professor of theology at the University of Birmingham, told the National Catholic Reporter that she had never before been associated with epidemics.
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However, scientists previously warned of self-sustaining epidemics in Chinese cities, and both Beijing and Shanghai remain on tight lockdown to guard against the virus' spread.
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Policymakers generally view things like natural disasters, epidemics and other exogenous occurrences as one-offs in nature and not a factor in long-term policy decisions.
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It is unclear whether China will be able to get the outbreak under control or whether it will cause a series of epidemics throughout the country.
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Soon enough, Alexandra was on the phone with Donald G. McNeil Jr., a reporter with decades of experience covering epidemics from SARS to MERS to Zika.
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Worn properly, the N95 mask can filter out about 95% of small airborne particles, according to Christiana Coyle, an expert in epidemics at New York University.
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Knights says, however, that a global push is particularly needed to end meat markets in urban areas, where people congregate and travel, making epidemics more likely.
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Moderna&aposs vaccine work is being funded by CEPI a public-private partnership launced in 2017 that focuses on quickly developing vaccines to halt potential epidemics.
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In view of the gathering evidence, health officials in some countries struck by Zika epidemics, including El Salvador and Colombia, have urged women to avoid pregnancy.
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We face a choice: to mobilize partners to accelerate toward the end of epidemics, or stall and permit resurgence and drug resistance to overpower our success.
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PHA is a nationally recognized leader in advocating for public policies to address the social, economic, and community conditions that perpetuate the obesity and diabetes epidemics.
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Most people don't possess the medical knowledge to know how and when to best address viral epidemics, and as a result, their emotions hold undue sway.
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Most people don't possess the medical knowledge to know how and when to best address viral epidemics, and as a result, their emotions hold undue sway.
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Kim also held a meeting of the ruling Workers' Party's powerful politburo to discuss "anti-epidemics steps" to prevent the spread of the virus, KCNA said.
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But we believe a longer-term term goal is to create a database to identify who has been vaccinated, for future seasonal flu episodes and epidemics.
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Mike Bloomberg hit Trump for firing key government officials normally in charge of epidemics and Joe Biden touted the Obama administration's actions on the Ebola outbreak.
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Unfortunately, the current administration disbanded its health security team in 2018 and has repeatedly suggested cuts to the very government agencies and programs that fight epidemics.
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Gary Taubes: To understand the case against sugar, using a criminal justice metaphor, you have to understand the crimes committed: epidemics of diabetes and obesity worldwide.
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"We can centralize a point of outreach to heroin addicts that actually does save significant money and resources in our fight against multiple epidemics," he said.
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What began as an architectural exploration became an excavation of a cemetery believed to hold the bodies from one of the worst epidemics in human history.
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If overprescription played a role, then targeting excess prescriptions, or even prescriptions in general, could help end and prevent the current and future drug overdose epidemics.
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In drug epidemics, potential new users are often scared off by the fates of their friends, siblings, and parents—and they tend to gravitate toward different drugs.
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" During a local campaign stop in Sicily on Sunday, Salvini said Tunisia was a free and democratic country that isn&apost experiencing "wars, epidemics, famines or pestilence.
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While the wildfire HIV epidemics of sub-Saharan Africa have somewhat been quelled, infection rates in previously quieter locales such as Indonesia and the Philippines have boomed.
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While lead pipes did occasionally produce "epidemics" this dramatic, health officials remained far more worried about diseases like typhoid, which they knew piped-in water could prevent.
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The opioid epidemic appears to be splitting into two epidemics, one of young people taking illegal drugs, and one of older people who, by and large, don't.
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"My hope is that this success story provides the inspiration we need to make this happen and change the way the world prepares for epidemics," he said.
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Go deeper: The worst flu season in eight years Why the U.S. faces a growing risk of epidemics Bill Gates announces $12 million for universal flu vaccine
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We have to remember that basic investments in global health and poor countries' health systems are our best tools for identifying epidemics early and stopping them quickly.
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Overreaction could have the effect of punishing countries that are experiencing epidemics, experts say, for example, through restrictions on travel, trade or tourism that could hurt economies.
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Before She Sleeps by Bina Shah In the future, Earth has been devastated by nuclear war and epidemics that have left the human population at low levels.
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But our health is more muddled now—we live in an age of "obesity epidemics," horse-meat scandals, and fears over hidden food nasties and carcinogenic additives.
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The conflict has unleashed the world's worst humanitarian crisis, including one of the most deadly cholera epidemics in modern times and economic collapse, which has spread hunger.
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This collection contains stories about first contact to epidemics to scientific experiments from authors such as Junot Díaz, Jonathan Lethem, Katherine Dunn, and a number of others.
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The international coordination, comprehensive monitoring at national and local levels, and best practices from physicians and patients alike prevented those outbreaks from becoming full-scale global epidemics.
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We're used to hearing about the bad kind of epidemics: dengue fever sweeping through a community, or a nasty computer virus spreading like wildfire across the internet.
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It would also be used to build stronger health systems in poor countries ill-equipped to handle existing outbreaks and unable to cope with potential new epidemics.
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Scientists also report that melting of Arctic ice can open the way to a return of pre-historic diseases, which could highly increase the likelihood of epidemics.
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In a review published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, researchers said the worsening epidemics could spread beyond Venezuela's borders, potentially causing a regional public health emergency.
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The hotel served as a hospital during the Civil War as well as two yellow fever epidemics, and some guests claim that former patients haunt the premises.
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Once, it referred to the project of securing health benefits that were public: clean water, improved sanitation, and the control of epidemics through treatment, quarantine, and immunization.
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We have seen the health consequences of this mistrust in the rise of anti-vaccinators and the dangerous reemergence of preventable epidemics of measles and chicken pox.
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The temple was built in 1847, and in the ensuing decades the site, low-lying and prone to epidemics, became the heart of Hong Kong's Chinese community.
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Will we forge ahead, invest strategically, and change the trajectory of disease, or step back and risk major resurgence of epidemics, potentially made worse by drug resistance?
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Among them: Epidemics are framed and shaped—sometimes advanced and sometimes hindered—by how a given society understands a particular microbe to infect and spread to others.
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If approved by the Senate, Dr. Droegemeier would advise the president on a daunting range of scientific challenges, from preparing for epidemics to responding to natural disasters.
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But simple carbohydrates, particularly sugar, are the real culprits in the modern diet, and are the driving forces "behind the diabetes and obesity epidemics," Mr. Leonhardt writes.
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The key to stopping past epidemics had been to isolate the sick and track everyone who might have been exposed, until there were no more new cases.
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"There's no magic wand — there's no 240-day cure," says Donald G. McNeil Jr., the Times science reporter who's been talking to the leading experts on epidemics.
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And it comes at a time when state attorneys general across the country have intensified their efforts to hold pharmaceutical companies accountable for the epidemics of abuse.
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I've been reluctant to say this, but one of the lessons history teaches us is that we often get pandemics wrong or epidemics wrong as they're occurring.
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I've been reluctant to say this, but one of the lessons history teaches us is that we often get pandemics wrong or epidemics wrong as they're occurring.
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But to some, the coronavirus outbreak is reminiscent of epidemics that have caused a panic in recent memory, including SARS, MERS, the Zika virus, and swine flu.
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First, it's worth pointing out that public transit's impact on the spread of epidemics is not particularly well understood, because it's hard to isolate from other factors.
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Tedros said the epidemics in Iran, Italy and South Korea show what the coronavirus is capable of, but said with the right measures, it can be contained.
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Epidemics have emerged in countries across the world, notably in Iran, Italy, and South Korea, where the number of cases and the death toll are rapidly increasing.
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SAN DIEGO — As the head of a homeless shelter in San Diego, Bob McElroy knows firsthand how epidemics can turn deadly for people living on the streets.
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The World Tourism and Travel Council analyzed previous major viral epidemics, and found that the average recovery time for visitor numbers to a destination was 19 months.
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Standard travel insurance doesn't typically have exclusions for epidemics like Covid-19 (though you may be able to purchase an upgrade, like "cancel for any reason" insurance).
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New demand for drugs is also a major factor for new epidemics — as people could, for example, want to supplant or enhance their opioid use with stimulants.
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But what makes the hospital a singularity isn't its psychiatric facilities; it's the institution's enduring commitment to treating the indigent, and its agility in treating incipient epidemics.
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Besides its historical interest in tropical diseases, the military maintains laboratories in Egypt, Indonesia, Peru and elsewhere that often act as an early warning system for epidemics.
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Because when climate-caused natural disasters, drought, food shortages, and epidemics ravage our country, authoritarians could take advantage of the crisis situation and strip away our rights.
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However, all three have a fairly strong ability to respond to infectious threats, and the demographic, social, and political environments offer the population some protection against epidemics.
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And even though the health care industry is no longer the Wild West, we have lost our appreciation of the power of regulation to stop drug epidemics.
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SARS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, and MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, were caused by two coronaviruses, which led to epidemics and the deaths of hundreds of people.
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Today, the fear of epidemics from China remains in the normally unflappable DNA of my fellow Hong Kongers, an anxiety that has been realized with COVID-19.
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If the disease continues to spread, however, it could turn into a pandemic: or a disease that spreads globally, with epidemics in multiple countries around the world.
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The storms have been linked not only to respiratory illnesses but also to lethal epidemics because of the spread of potentially harmful bacteria, viruses and fungal spores.
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The group, which sees itself as a global insurance policy against epidemics, is funded by Norway, Germany, Japan, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust.
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The end result was that the US had two overlapping overdose epidemics, with heroin and prescription painkillers both killing more than 13,000 people a year by 2015.
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Relief efforts would come to a standstill, cleanup of heavily damaged areas would stop, and the potential for epidemics and other public health threats would increase exponentially.
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These epidemics and pandemics devastated many of their host countries -- the West Africa Ebola outbreak resulted in a loss of $53 billion in economic and social cost.
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Nearly 70 percent of cases in Madagascar have been pneumonic plague, a form spread human-to-human that is more dangerous than bubonic plague and can trigger epidemics.
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With the advent of better transportation, exponentially increasing urbanization, unequal development, and rapidly evolving microbes and viruses, our largest, and perhaps most deadly, epidemics are still to come.
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So as cooler parts of sub-Saharan Africa gear up for the spread of malaria, hotter areas should prepare for future epidemics like chikungunya and dengue, experts say.
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Expect even more measles outbreaks in the United States in coming years, public health experts say, thanks to overseas epidemics and growing misinformation efforts by anti-vaccination activists.
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But the drugs remain illegal for big companies to produce and sell for profit — effectively stopping the kind of commercialization that's spurred the tobacco, alcohol, and opioid epidemics.
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The "sub-epidemics" of these drugs wreak havoc for distinct time periods, populations, and places, including some in cities and some in rural Appalachia, according to the study.
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Fourth, the problems created by social media differ in a key way from wars, dictatorships, epidemics, and other scourges: They are not imposed on people but chosen freely.
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Redd explained that a common characteristic of epidemics is that misinformation runs rampant during the first few days, so be wary of information you receive during this time.
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The fall of Tenochtitlán, in addition to epidemics of European-introduced diseases, would begin the long process of Spanish colonization that history has alternately called conquest or genocide.
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More than a decade later, as Ohio grapples with one of the deadliest drug epidemics in American history, the state's criminal justice system has undergone a similar transformation.
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In addition, the nation needs a robust public health system to control epidemics and perform a raft of public health activities ranging from health education to restaurant inspection.
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The push for taxes on sugar and sodas has gathered momentum this year, as officials and health advocates seek ways to stem health epidemics of diabetes and obesity.
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Politically, we have chosen a leader who uses his powerful office to lay the groundwork for a culture of violence, which risks giving rise to epidemics of violence.
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Besides epidemics, they tended to produce ecological crises, such as gradual salinization of the soil, sediment buildup in canals, and other environmental choke points that degraded grain production.
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But White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the unspent Ebola money was needed to "build up the public health infrastructure of countries overseas" to help prevent future epidemics.
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No one is planning for the collapse of civilization, for food shortages, epidemics and mass displacement, but that could happen as the result of a major climate disaster.
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We should welcome this newfound attention, and lawmakers and regulators should approach auto death and injury with the same urgency with which they have approached other health epidemics.
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On a global scale, strong and stable U.S. funding for R&D is vital to finding cures and treatments for the world's most deadly diseases and future epidemics.
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At the same time, climate change and related droughts, floods and epidemics of pest and disease are predicted to challenge our ability to reliably and consistently produce food.
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It just serves to illustrate how difficult it is to predict, track, and study epidemics and illuminates the risks that come with a lack of public health information.
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Between the 17th and 19th centuries, during the humid heights of summer, yellow fever epidemics claimed thousands of lives as the city's wealthy absconded to more hospitable climates.
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Parallel exhibitions are on display in Geneva and Hong Kong as part of Wellcome's "Contagious Cities" initiative, which highlights the physical, social, economic and cultural effects of epidemics.
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They ordered from Monday a two-week isolation for all travelers entering the country, and barred entry to visitors from the countries most affected by the coronavirus epidemics.
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They ordered from Monday a two-week isolation for all travellers entering the country, and barred entry to visitors from the countries most affected by the coronavirus epidemics.
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Mr. Sands said he was "not particularly convinced of the logic of loans," but wanted to trim grants in ways that do not cause local epidemics to rebound.
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Our medical expertise lets us spot most disease epidemics early on, so we can take steps to mitigate their effects, but we can't always predict how they spread.
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These epidemics were often blamed on foreigners, and they weren't always wrong, such as the case of cholera a Buddhist deity is warding off in one 1861 print.
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The answer might lie in looking back at how we responded to the epidemics, the infectious diseases in the 19th and early 20th centuries, which have similar characteristics.
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"Epidemic diseases are not random events that afflict societies capriciously and without warning," writes Frank M. Snowden in Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present.
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"We have seen epidemics in countries with advanced it health systems, but even they have struggled to cope as the virus moves to low income countries," he said.
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One specialist in infectious disease epidemics at the global health charity Wellcome Trust on Thursday urged finance institutions to commit an initial $10 billion to fighting the coronavirus.
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We have witnessed epidemics and pandemics throughout history, and there are some legal precedents regarding the power of government to prevent the spread of the potentially deadly virus.
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"We need a president who will take on the twin epidemics of rising white nationalism and rising gun violence that have cost too many American lives," he said.
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"He said health officials are seeing "linked epidemics of COVID-234 in several countries, but most cases can still be traced to known contacts or clusters of cases.
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As epidemics emerge, he added, the health-care system often only picks up the most severe cases because those are the individuals who are likely to seek treatment.
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It says much about today's winner-take-all economy that many of the cities with the most glaring epidemics of homelessness are growing centers of technology and finance.
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But it goes to show that what looks like a national epidemic or trendline could also be regional epidemics, with different populations and demographics, separately rising and falling.
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Dr. Noya said he believed the vandalism was ordered because he publishes information on infectious disease epidemics that the government does not report, particularly the spread of malaria.
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TPS allows people who are already in the United States to work and enjoy temporary legal status because of war, natural disasters or epidemics in their home countries.
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Native American teenagers and young adults are 1.5 times as likely to kill themselves as the national average, with suicides often clustering in epidemics that hit and fade.
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In fact, continued and increased investment in global health provides an important opportunity to build on bipartisan support, end major epidemics, and realize enormous humanitarian and economic benefits.
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What they're saying: "A small number of [measles] cases are capable of quickly producing epidemics," Dr. Mark Escott, medical director for Austin Public Health, said in a statement.
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"We compared the evolution of this epidemic to other epidemics to see if the increase had been more rapid, and there was no difference," Rollins said in an interview.
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Earlier this year, hackers unleashed a disruptive worm called WannaCry, infecting and locking thousands of computers across the world in one of the worst ransomware epidemics in recent memory.
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While some American dogs might have been wiped out by epidemics or purposefully killed by Europeans, as indigenous people often were, there are likely other reasons for their demise.
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Faced with an excessively harsh criminal justice system or a legal industry that carelessly causes drug epidemics, perhaps that frustrating middle is the best we can hope to do.
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According to a new study, US drug epidemics of the last four decades — from crack to pain pills to heroin — have led to an accelerating rate of overdose deaths.
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Some of these researchers believe machine learning, algorithms and mathematical analysis can give health care providers tools to help solve one of our most intractable public health epidemics: suicide.
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In the past, amid epidemics of cancer and tobacco-related diseases, the medical system seemed to be the last, not the first, to raise the alarm, according to Schmidt.
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While there is no credible evidence that vaccines cause autism, as anti-vaccine activists say there is, there's plenty of evidence that vaccines prevent epidemics of horrible, deadly diseases.
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We want to know what causes those epidemics [of obesity and diabetes], because they're out of control, they're happening all over the world, and they're devastating health care systems.
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There are thousands of confirmed instances of humans being infected, sometimes fatally, with non-human flu strains; but only a handful of strains have adapted to cause human epidemics.
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"The very limited supply of vaccines to control outbreaks of meningitis C can affect our ability to control these epidemics," said Olivier Ronveaux, a meningitis expert with the WHO.
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Faced with an excessively harsh criminal justice system and a legal industry that carelessly causes drug epidemics, I have come down somewhere in the middle of these two extremes.
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"Since much of the data on tourism is not released until several months later, I have to base a lot of our estimations on past epidemics," Vélez-Hagan said.
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Our study didn't look at if this increased rates of transmission, but presumably there is a substantial risk for hepatitis C and HIV epidemics based on events like this.
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Nearly 20,000 people died after overdosing on fentanyl in 2016, data from the Center for Disease Control shows, contributing to one of the worst drug epidemics in a generation.
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The theme of the call was about innovation and innovation in helping things like being able to stop epidemics or finishing polio eradication or innovation in educational-related software.
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The prevalence of NASH mirrors the rising epidemics of diabetes and obesity, and more than half of diabetics have NASH, as do nearly a third of bariatric surgery patients.
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Throughout humanity's history, and especially since we started living in condensed cities and could travel far, plague has reared its ugly head and caused civilization-shaping epidemics and pandemics.
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"The study really tells us what we need to know, in a sense, about how epidemics spread, how they develop," said Coffin, who was not involved in Wednesday's study.
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Others, meanwhile, hatched a plan to prepare the world for future epidemics and secured private-sector investment for the IFRC's One Billion Coalition for Resilience, a humanitarian-assistance programme.
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The deadly scenes were later immortalized in "Dead Homes," a 50 Venezuelan novel about the rural epidemics of malaria and the waves of migration to the country's oil fields.
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Across the 19th and 20th century, cholera, typhus, and yellow fever epidemics in the United States were blamed on "dirty" immigrants, Jews, Irish Catholics, Italians, and Mexican day workers.
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Markets have historically "reacted most negatively" to unknown diseases, tending to plunge more during epidemics as compared to natural disasters such as earthquakes and storms, according to Credit Suisse.
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Throughout history, epidemics have marked inflection points: Polio catalyzed public health infrastructure for vaccinations and fueled the disability rights movement; AIDS amplified activist voices in drug development and treatment.
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Doctors say tuberculosis infection rates in Venezuela are probably still well beneath the levels afflicting countries, mainly in sub-Saharan African and Asia, that have the worst tuberculosis epidemics.
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Even so, from its earliest days as a European foothold on the new continent, and on through hurricanes, wars, epidemics and social and economic upheavals, the region hung on.
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Other scientists believe they play a role in the obesity and metabolic disease epidemics because they confuse the brain and the body about the caloric value of sweet foods.
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Some researchers have urged the organization to do so for months; such pronouncements are reserved for epidemics that pose a serious threat to public health and could spread internationally.
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" She observes, "Matsuri often have associations with the cycles of the agrarian year, or with the commemoration of the pacification of kami who have wrought natural disasters or epidemics.
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For the first time, the type of deadly Ebola virus responsible for recent epidemics has been found in a bat in West Africa, Liberian health officials announced on Thursday.
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It's reasonable to worry that just as Zika found routes into Brazil, it will find ways to leave the country with travelers and start new epidemics across the world.
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Numerous images of people collecting water from polluted rivers were posted on social media, foreshadowing epidemics that an already struggling health care system will be unable to cope with.
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After studying the history of past epidemics, Jones believes Americans will be able to bounce back from this and re-adapt the social behaviors we exhibited before the outbreak.
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During most flu epidemics, more patients die of heart problems than respiratory issues like pneumonia, they wrote, adding that they expected similar cardiac issues among severe COVID-19 cases.
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Dr. Munster noted that, over all, the new coronavirus seems no more capable of surviving for long periods than its close cousins SARS and MERS, which caused previous epidemics.
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Flea-borne typhus (Rickettsia typhi), a relatively benign member of a group of bacterial pathogens better known for causing deadly epidemics in Medieval Europe starting in the 211th century.
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"The free flow of goods, capital, and people has generated enormous benefits but also created channels for rapid worldwide contagion from financial shocks, geopolitical conflicts, and epidemics," he said.
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"Slovenia has reacted extremely seriously to the danger of the epidemics and if we will continue like that, the final price will be lower than we feared," Jansa said.
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GENEVA, March 2 (Reuters) - The epidemics in South Korea, Italy, Iran and Japan are the World Health Organization's greatest concern, the body's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.
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As epidemics spread across other continents, new cases in China are falling, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press briefing at the agency's headquarters in Geneva.
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An epidemics historian has called China's response to the coronavirus outbreak 'clumsy' — and says it 'terrifies' him for the futureSeveral young doctors in China have died of the coronavirus.
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And a comprehensive global surveillance system to monitor the emergence of these diseases — now missing — would be an indispensable tool in helping us fight these deadly and terrifying epidemics.
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"Absolutely, it delayed our ability to recognize that this virus was spreading," said Frieden, who now runs Resolve to Save Lives, a global non-profit aimed at curbing epidemics.
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If it's clear that eating a specific animal species results in epidemics in humans, then a ban would be appropriate and could help conserve species as well, he added.
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Investor anxiety over the coronavirus led to the Dow Jones Industrial Average's longest losing streak since August, and the market may have more to lose, going by past epidemics.
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Fearful of floods and epidemics like the Ebola outbreak, which ravaged the West African nation in 2014, the state has repeatedly threatened to evict slum dwellers in recent years.
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In the spread of yet another coronavirus, conservationists see a public health lesson: If you want to prevent epidemics that begin in animals, halt the global trade in wildlife.
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Widespread mistrust of health systems and militia conflict in some provinces in Congo are among many obstacles facing health agencies working to end the twin epidemics in the country.
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Almost 28500,6900 deaths annually in the U.S. are caused by obesity, well in excess of the number of deaths attributed to Ebola, recent epidemics of influenza or opioid overdoses.
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" The attorney general said evidence will show that drug companies "in their zeal to provide a magic drug ... ignored centuries of experienced, well-documented scientific histories of deadly addiction epidemics.
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It was an unusually public effort that quickly found support among public health experts and the government as China grapples with one of the deadliest epidemics in its recent history.
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The big turnaround came with the industrial revolution, mainly because many more children survived into adulthood, thanks to better sanitation, more control over epidemics, improved nutrition and higher living standards.
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The two most prominent scenarios in the report focus on the risk of a collapse of the power grid within "the next 303 years," and the danger of disease epidemics.
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The search for an explanation has produced many theories including climate change, epidemics, or inability to compete with the modern humans, who may have had some mental or cultural edge.
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As Swapna Krishna reported in an article for Smithsonian, in the 18th century this mermaid's bones were soaked in water that was offered to bathers to protect them from epidemics.
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Epidemics normally decline as quickly as they arise, so the peak of the disease - which is spread by contaminated food and water - should be roughly half the eventual total caseload.
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On Wednesday, an independent commission of 17 experts in public health, research and finance convened by the National Academy of Medicine called for greater international investment in preventing future epidemics.
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Eight, use part of the annual saving of $1 trillion to expand home visits for community-based health care to combat the epidemics of obesity, opioids, mental illness and others.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Governments should tax sugary drinks to fight the global epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, recommendations industry swiftly branded "discriminatory" and "unproven".
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Forty years of fighting "There are two defining epidemics of our time: the AIDS epidemic and Ebola," said Peter Piot, director at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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In an effort to wean consumers off sugary drinks and reduce the epidemics of obesity and diabetes, Mexico imposed a peso-per-liter excise tax at the beginning of 2014.
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An increasing number of U.S. government officials and nutritionists have proposed excise taxes on sugary beverages as a way to combat rising rates of obesity, diabetes and other health epidemics.
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This system of emergency reserves was established between World War I and World War II as Switzerland prepared for any potential shortages in case of war, natural disaster or epidemics.
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The researchers said a substantial proportion of the world's yellow fever vaccine stocks had been used up by recent epidemics in Africa and Brazil, and further depleted by manufacturing difficulties.
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The reasons to applaud are self-evident: All the old epidemics are compounded by all the new ones, and the health-related fallout of wars and natural disasters never ends.
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A startup called Rex Animal Health wants to protect livestock from illnesses that can quickly turn into epidemics, and help farmers breed animals with the healthiest and most attractive traits.
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Some historians believe the rise of foot fetishism was partly in response to STI epidemics—in other words, foot play became popular because it was a form of safe sex.
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"Nationally, STD programs are on the front lines of the STD epidemics, and these programs are poorly resourced," says David Harvey, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors.
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Congo had suffered eight Ebola epidemics previous, but owing to remote geography and poor transport links they have tended to fizzle out rather than spread to become a national crisis.
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The National Security Council released a report on Monday trumpeting the achievements of the multinational Global Health Security Agenda, which helps low-income countries halt epidemics before they cross borders.
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A study conducted by the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2007 revealed that dozens of cities experiencing flu epidemics saw another hike in deaths after withdrawing their restrictions.
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"There will be more and more outbreaks developing into big epidemics," said Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the first head of Unaids.
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Almost 30 years ago, Philip Strong, the founder of the sociological study of epidemic infectious diseases, observed that any new infection prompted three epidemics: of fear, then moralization, then action.
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The W.H.O. is accused of fostering a culture in which bureaucrats live comfortably on tax-free United Nations salaries in Switzerland while making constant appeals for money to fight epidemics.
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UPPSALA, Sweden (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Unsung local heroes who helped defeat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa may hold the key to thwarting deadly epidemics in the future, experts say.
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It is also a test run for still-larger crises the U.S. and international community face as the earth warms, triggering food shortages, other types of epidemics, and mass migrations.
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The ongoing outbreak of the new coronavirus is different from the Ebola epidemics because it's less deadly, but it's affecting far more people in many more countries around the world.
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It's no secret that certain types of misery and societal upheaval can reduce emissions—from recessions to the collapse of the Soviet Union to epidemics such as the current coronavirus.
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"We need a contingency fund for epidemics," said Dr. Paul Jarris, chief medical officer of the March of Dimes, which fights for Zika funding because of the danger to infants.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Measles is staging a devastating comeback in epidemics across the world as the virus exploits dangerous gaps in vaccination coverage, World Health Organization (WHO) experts said on Friday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Measles is staging a devastating comeback in epidemics across the world as the virus exploits dangerous gaps in vaccination coverage, World Health Organization (WHO) experts said on Friday.
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We are also all vulnerable to epidemics and outbreaks, regardless of our insurance status, and when an illness like Zika or Ebola hits, safety-net hospitals are our first defense.
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Weakening our capacity to prevent or promptly detect epidemics at home and globally Bipartisan consensus over the past 2023 years has improved our ability to find and stop health threats.
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Unfortunately, as epidemics like Ebola and Zika fade from the headlines, support among policymakers about the importance of investing globally to prevent infectious diseases is trending in the wrong direction.
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The most urgent threats to the safety of the planet today are climate change, nuclear weapons, epidemics, the rise of extreme right-wing nationalism, poverty, and grotesque levels of inequality.
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The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, an Asia-centric multilateral development bank, said it is beginning discussions about medium to longer-term infrastructure investments to help prevent and control future epidemics.
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The difference this time is that those changes are more likely to persist after Covid-19 than in earlier epidemics because of a change in the way we view disease.
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Congo had suffered eight previous Ebola epidemics, but owing to remote geography and poor transport links they have tended to fizzle out rather than spread to become a national crisis.
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"If you can predict the start of the annual epidemics of the flu and other respiratory viruses, you can use this knowledge to promote campaigns for the flu vaccine," he said.
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N are teaming up to develop treatments for a liver disease many drug companies believe will become a hugely lucrative market, as it is tied to the obesity and diabetes epidemics.
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Europe's record-breaking measles epidemic — more than 41,000 cases so far this year — has health experts worried that a simmering distrust of vaccines there will spur future epidemics of preventable diseases.
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WASHINGTON — US drug epidemics of the last four decades — from crack to pain pills to heroin — have led to an accelerating rate of drug overdose deaths, according to a new study.
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If anything, today's accelerated news cycles and well-oiled outrage machine only increases the public appetite for phantom epidemics, which brings us back to this month's smartphone freakout in The Atlantic.
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Six strains (types) of the bacteria can cause epidemics and are seen globally, but one dominates within this region -- Strain A. "There was simply no vaccine for this strain," says Davis.
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Still, we likely won't ever be able to predict which will spill over next; even long-known viruses like Zika, which was discovered in 212, can suddenly develop into unforeseen epidemics.
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"But there are still epidemics going on in most parts of the world where women don't have regular access to screenings — those ladies stand to benefit most from this," Cortessis says.
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The big picture: The drug and suicide epidemics have hit rural America hardest, at the same time that blue collar jobs are disappearing and technology and automation is transforming the workforce.
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"[This finding] confirms that Yersinia pestis was present in early modern London plague epidemics, and links them epidemiologically with the 14th-century Black Death and the 1720 Marseille Plague," said Harding.
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We don't often call alcohol or tobacco "epidemics," even as we regularly use that same language for opioids that are linked to a fraction of the deaths from alcohol or tobacco.
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