The highly infectious virus quickly spread to 37 countries globally.
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Measles is a highly infectious disease transmitted through the measles virus.
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Scabies, an itchy, highly infectious disease caused by mites, afflicted many Chinese.
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Outbreaks of highly infectious diseases like Ebola have their own stringent protocols.
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Bd is highly infectious between animals, attacking their skin and causing catastrophic mortality.
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Since then Saphier has backtracked and emphasized the danger the highly-infectious virus poses.
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Measles is a highly infectious disease that can be spread with a simple cough or sneeze.
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The highly-infectious disease can be fatal or cause hearing loss and mental disorders in children.
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The highly infectious viral disease spreads from person to person and through contaminated food and water.
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Even a highly infectious disease like measles simply cannot spread when herd immunity has been achieved.
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With significant uncertainty remaining, we should be throwing everything we have at this highly infectious disease.
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Ebola, a highly infectious disease that causes hemorrhaging, fever, bloody vomiting and diarrhea, has five subtypes.
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This makes them much more susceptible to getting sick, particularly from highly infectious cold and flu viruses.
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Cases of H28503N22019, scabies, tuberculosis, and other highly infectious diseases have been reported among recent border crossers.
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Closing borders to highly infectious pathogens never succeeds completely, experts said, because all frontiers are somewhat porous.
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Tanzania has never reported a case of the highly infectious disease, which has a high fatality rate.
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Without his meds, the virus was able to replicate freely in his blood, meaning he'd become highly infectious.
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Measles is a highly infectious viral infection that can cause everything from a red trash to brain inflammation.
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Measles is a highly infectious -- and potentially fatal -- viral illness that is typically spread by breathing or coughing.
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That is a worry because, for these children, some highly infectious diseases like measles are on the rise.
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The distancing protocol made sense for someone with a highly infectious disease for which there is no treatment.
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COVID-19 is different because in today's world, it is almost impossible to contain a highly infectious virus.
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That sets up conditions where a highly infectious illness like the coronavirus could quickly spread through a workplace.
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Polio is a highly infectious virus that affects the nervous system of young children and can result in paralysis.
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These preparedness initiatives provide a tremendous resource, allowing our nation to better respond to threats from highly infectious diseases.
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When's a good time to start social distancing when a new, highly infectious disease has arrived in your community?
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The hospital is one of 10 in the nation funded by Congress to treat new or highly infectious diseases.
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In 2002, a highly infectious strain of bird flu was detected in Chile for the first time, curtailing poultry exports.
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Plague in China: Two people from a sparsely populated region were diagnosed with a form of the highly infectious disease.
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Barring certain highly infectious diseases or an accident from which I can't be recovered, my post-mortem destination is booked.
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"Ebola is highly infectious so we have put in place measures," Uganda's Junior Health Minister Sarah Achieng Opendi told Reuters.
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Polio, a potentially deadly and highly infectious viral disease almost eradicated globally, also re-emerged in PNG in recent weeks.
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The World Health Organization says the highly infectious virus has killed at least one person in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Since August, there have been 19173 recorded cases of the highly infectious disease and 569 deaths, with no end in sight.
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Just as the measles virus can travel from Israel to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, so can highly infectious diseases move across state lines.
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The majority of those who have died in Samoa due to the highly infectious disease have been aged four and under.
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For a highly infectious disease like measles, if vaccination rates drop below 95–90 percent, you're likely to see outbreaks, Hotez says.
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Political boundaries can't stop a highly infectious virus, and Pakistan has exported its polio cases to other countries throughout the past decade.
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"Measles is the most highly infectious virus that we know of and can be transmitted fairly readily to susceptible individuals," Schaffner said.
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Measles is a highly infectious -- and potentially fatal -- viral illness that is typically spread from person to person by breathing or coughing.
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The ship is currently in Guam and will remain pierside as the Navy tests the entire crew for the highly infectious coronavirus.
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The Zaire strain is, however, the deadliest form of Ebola, a highly infectious disease that causes hemorrhaging, fever, bloody vomiting and diarrhea.
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Thankfully, coronavirus is similar to other highly infectious respiratory diseases, which means that most American healthcare workers know how to handle it.
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The simulation they had performed earlier in January on how to transport and quarantine a highly infectious patient was suddenly becoming reality.
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Preventing Measles Measles is a highly infectious disease that spreads from person to person by breathing contaminated air or touching an infected surface.
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It is highly infectious, and pregnant women are likely to pass it on to their babies in utero, which can result in stillbirths.
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Even a highly infectious flu virus would be temporarily stymied in winter if the seasonal flu had already infected much of the population.
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Health officials' longstanding fears about the potent mix of armed conflict in weak states — combined with a highly infectious disease outbreak — are being realized.
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Trouble is brewing for a Chinese electronics giant, students sent a rocket into actual space, and the highly infectious measles just won't go away.
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda has confirmed one death from Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, the health minister said on Thursday.
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In America, Britain and France, among others, vaccination against measles has fallen below the 95% threshold that stops the highly infectious disease from spreading.
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Two cases of the fatal and highly infectious illness, which is related to bubonic plague, were found in Beijing, prompting fears of an outbreak.
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The key to containing a highly infectious, deadly virus is you have to identify who's infected, track down all their contacts, and quarantine them.
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Mumps, a highly infectious disease, has sickened 931 people in dentention centers across the U.S. in the past year, according to a new goverment report.
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As our planet warms and global resources are stretched thin, we can expect that human beings will come into greater contact with highly infectious pathogens.
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The highly infectious disease has been crossing the globe, recently finding a susceptible population in Samoa, where the official death toll was 53 on Monday.
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These vulnerabilities, a result of poorly funded healthcare systems and diets, make it harder to control the cross-border spread of a highly infectious virus.
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Ebola is a highly infectious virus which causes a sudden onset of symptoms including fever, fatigue and muscle pain within two to 43 days after infection.
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North Kivu also hosts over 1 million displaced people and fighting between government forces and armed militant groups makes containing the highly infectious virus a challenge.
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As hospitals around the country prepare for an influx of highly infectious coronavirus cases, their supplies of a crucial type of respirator mask are dwindling fast.
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Global Health Measles cases soared in Europe last year, and at least 35 children died of the highly infectious disease, according to the World Health Organization.
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The golden green and highly infectious nodules in the Southern Reach trilogy (2014) show up as English words and sentences — literally, the writing on the wall.
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda said on Friday it had successfully contained an outbreak of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious haemorrhagic fever announced by officials on Oct.
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An outbreak of even just a few dozen cases of a deadly, highly infectious disease — let alone a few hundred — would overwhelm any city in our country.
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Poliomyelitis, polio's formal name, is a highly infectious viral disease that is transmitted from person-to-person via the ingestion of contaminated feces, or through contaminated food.
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A vast campaign of vigilance and vaccination, with almost 75 million screenings, has kept the highly infectious virus almost entirely confined to two provinces in northeastern Congo.
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What's new: The concern is particularly over the 3 people who apparently died outside of quarantined treatment centers, since the Ebola virus remains highly infectious after death.
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The anti-vaccine movement has resulted in more parents opting out of vaccinating their kids, and that has resulted in new outbreaks of highly infectious diseases like measles.
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Tuberculosis is still active across the globe today, with the worrying development of highly infectious antibiotic-resistant strains of TB that no longer respond to any known treatments.
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Located within existing hospitals, these state-of-the-art bio-containment units have enhanced capabilities to ensure patients with highly infectious diseases can be safely isolated and treated.
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Thailand's measures to suppress the spread of the highly infectious respiratory disease have left many without jobs as many businesses, mainly in entertainment and spas, were closed down.
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Other newly arrived research: highly infectious MRSA bacteria, triple-contained so it doesn't get loose up there; stem cells; and instruments for studying lightning and the Earth's ozone layer.
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Measles, in particular, is a highly infectious illness that can spread through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes, according to the National Health Service in England.
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IN 215 THE World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Britain to be officially free from measles, a highly infectious illness that killed about 2000,22018 people around the world in 2017.
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Two people from the sparsely populated region of Inner Mongolia were found to have pneumonic plague, a highly infectious disease related to bubonic plague, at a hospital in Beijing.
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In 2014, UNMC successfully treated three patients with Ebola, and the medical facility has the capacity to manage other highly infectious diseases like SARS, monkeypox and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
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With this highly infectious disease transmitted from person to person through bodily fluids like saliva, blood, breast milk and feces, patient care is key to reducing the infection rate.
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Officials suspect that the two other deaths were also caused by the highly infectious virus, which spreads through contact with bodily fluids, according to WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier in Geneva.
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Weeks ago, when the news first broke, many in the health security community began to brace for another potential Ebola pandemic, recognizing how easily these highly infectious diseases can spread.
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A senior medical adviser to the government, Zhong Nanshan, cautioned that imported cases were highly infectious, and urged checks on arrivals from countries with large outbreaks, instead of observing symptoms.
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Measles, a highly infectious viral disease that is more contagious than Ebola or tuberculosis, is still an important cause of death among young children globally, the World Health Organization said.
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Scientists and public health experts agree that millions of Americans should stay home as businesses and schools close in an effort to contain the spread of the highly-infectious virus.
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Right now, if you have a highly infectious COVID-19 patient, it's really a problem to send a nurse who is not immune to it already because she's so susceptible.
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A senior medical adviser to the government, Zhong Nanshan, cautioned that imported cases were highly infectious, and urged checks on arrivals from countries with large outbreaks, instead of observing symptoms.
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In 2014, UNMC successfully treated three patients with Ebola, and the medical facility has the capacity to manage other highly infectious diseases such as SARS, monkeypox and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
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"The prisons and detention centers are a fertile environment for any infectious diseases, especially such a highly infectious virus," Amr Magdi, a researcher for Human Rights Watch, told VICE News.
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Measles is a highly infectious viral infection that can lead to fevers, a rash, and a flu-like illness, and can sometimes cause inflammation in the lungs or the brain.
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"We focused on measles as a case example of the effects of declining vaccine coverage because it is highly infectious," said Stanford's Nathan Lo, the study's lead author in a statement.
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If symptoms had developed, the medic would have been moved to the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, one of only a few in the United States for treating highly infectious and dangerous diseases.
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With these festivals drawing hundreds of thousands of attendees from all over the world, officials are worried that they might become high-risk events for transmission of the highly infectious disease.
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With thousands of Venezuelans a day fleeing the country's political and economic crisis, there is a risk that polio and other highly infectious diseases will spread to more countries in the region.
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In 2016, The Guardian wrote about a case of a child in a detention facility in Pennsylvania whose highly infectious diarrheal disease went untreated for weeks, exposing at least 40 other children.
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In reality, It Comes at Night is a movie about a highly infectious disease: A family is camped out in a house in the woods, escaping a contagion that is destroying society.
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"We want to protect the health and safety of all Louisianans by doing our part to prevent the spread of this highly infectious disease," Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin (R) said.
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For the report, the GPMB experts evaluated emerging social, economic, and political trends, as well as the latest developments in how highly infectious diseases migrate around the world, among many other factors.
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Samoa's island population of just 200,000 has been gripped by the highly infectious disease that has killed 81 people, most of them babies and young children, and infected more than 5,600 people.
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The draconian measures introduced to try to contain the highly infectious disease are taking a heavy toll on an economy which was already close to recession, with a huge immediate hit to tourism.
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He was the first to identify what came to be called severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, notifying the World Health Organization of a highly infectious novel disease that could easily become pandemic.
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This facility also has a training, research and simulation center created to train medical personnel from all over the country on how to work safely with patients that may have a highly infectious disease.
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Nearly 300 people have been infected with the highly infectious disease, which can be fatal, compared to only two cases in 2017, de Blasio said at a news conference in Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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The World Health Organization has declared an international emergency over the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo after more than 1,600 people were killed in the past year by the highly infectious virus.
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Paul — who has been working from the Capitol in recent days — said he was tested out of caution "due to his extensive travel and events" and is not showing symptoms of the highly infectious virus.
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The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that emerged out of China in December 2019 is a highly infectious pathogen with the potential to rapidly overload health care systems and inflict substantial mortality around the world.
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The highly infectious disease, which can be mostly prevented by a common vaccination, is in the midst of its largest outbreak in a quarter-century in the United States, with more than 700 cases reported.
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Beijing is also promoting more transportation of chilled and frozen meat rather than live animals, partly to reduce the risks of spreading animal disease, as the country battles a highly infectious African swine fever disease.
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America's struggle to deal with the spread of the highly infectious new virus Covid-19 is bad enough, with the number of confirmed cases surging, hospitals begging for help and entire cities going on lockdown.
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MRSA is a skin bacterium, and flu is a respiratory virus—but each is a highly infectious disease of close contact, and it would be naive to assume that similar conditions won't pose similar risks.
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Ivan Hung, chief of the Infectious Diseases Division at Hong Kong University, told CNN the SARS case was "very different and much more serious" owing to a highly infectious patient and the virus being airborne.
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The path of the coronavirus could prove harder to trace and control than SARS, when a small number of highly infectious superspreaders helped transmit the disease to a large number of people, Dr. Guan said.
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Teams of epidemiologists, biologists and sanitation specialists were mobilized to travel to the affected areas as part of the international response to halt the highly infectious virus, which spreads through contact with bodily fluids, WHO said.
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But we also learned that, unlike SARS, patients become highly infectious before they become seriously ill, explaining at least in part why Covid-193 acts like a super-SARS, far more infectious than its vanquished cousin.
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When Burq learned that 400 to 500 copper workers on the same street had also mysteriously dodged cholera, he concluded that something about their professions—and copper—had made them immune to the highly infectious disease.
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Team heads to epicenter Ebola is a highly infectious virus spread through contact with bodily fluids, and testing shows the latest outbreak involves the Zaire strain, the most dangerous of the viruses known to cause the disease.
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BEIJING — Two people in China were diagnosed with plague, setting off a panic on Tuesday about the potential spread of the highly infectious and fatal disease and prompting China's government to warn citizens to take precautions to protect themselves.
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Vaccination coverage Poliomyelitis, known as polio, is a highly infectious viral disease that invades the brain and spinal cord and causes permanent paralysis in a small proportion of patients, including the 6-year-old in Morobe, according to WHO.
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Public health officials are still scrambling to understand the new coronavirus that has spread across the globe in the last several months, but they have concluded that it is highly infectious and poses a particular risk to older people.
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Athletes who travel may have contact with other athletes from other areas, and "increasingly across the country, we know there are underimmunized pockets where you may more readily have transmission of highly infectious agents like measles," Dr. Jackson said.
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The World Health Organisation on June 17 declared the latest outbreak of the highly infectious hemorrhagic fever a global health emergency, sounding a rarely used global alarm after the virus threatened to spread to a major city and into neighboring countries.
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The largest city in sub-Saharan Africa, with an estimated 0003 million population, has been transformed by a week-long shutdown of public life imposed as part of efforts to stem the spread of the highly infectious disease in Nigeria.
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The largest city in sub-Saharan Africa, with an estimated 3093 million population, has been transformed by a week-long shutdown of public life imposed as part of efforts to stem the spread of the highly infectious disease in Nigeria.
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Scientists and public-health experts agree that millions of Americans should stay home as businesses and schools close to contain the spread of the highly infectious virus, which is estimated to be 10 times as deadly as the seasonal flu.
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They are certainly lower than the transmission rates for many other illnesses including the 2003 SARS outbreak in China, which had a reproductive number of 4, and the highly infectious mumps and measles, whose reproduction numbers are 10 and 18, respectively.
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"Given the unexpected situation, we will follow the health care center's advice to get vaccine shots for measles or other highly infectious diseases so that we don't cause concern to others," the group said in a statement posted on its website.
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The ministry learned of the confirmed measles case from "two reputable sources," and in light of current measles outbreaks in the United States and the highly infectious nature of the disease "we thought it prudent that we quarantine the ship," Frederick-James said.
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As Congress drafts one of the biggest pieces of legislation in a generation, leaders in the House and Senate face mounting questions about how to keep members safe from the highly infectious coronavirus — including whether to vote away from the U.S. Capitol.
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Even if the Iberian lynx is no longer facing extinction, its future continues to depend upon that of the rabbit, whose population first decreased significantly because of myxomatosis, a highly infectious disease, which was introduced as a control agent worldwide in the 1950s.
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In 22016, author Max Brooks published World War Z, an "oral history" of the world following an apocalypse in which a highly infectious fictional virus called Solanum first pops up in China then spreads across the world, turning scores of people into zombies.
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According to a department press release, the tigers died due to two reasons: a respiratory disease and Canine Distemper Virus, a serious, highly-infectious disease that often affects dogs but has been found in a wide variety of big cats and other species.
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Dr. Joseph Kam, an honorary clinical associate professor at the Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, told CNN that there are strict rules for storing highly infectious diseases but added that an explosion could lead to a virus spreading and infecting those nearby.
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The Rotarians, wearing glowing LED bracelets, came to Atlanta to commit once again to the elusive goal they first outlined in 2003: a world free of polio, the highly infectious disease that invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours.
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The challenge for major government and corporate donors now is to assure this initial preparation translates into action on the ground without delay — that the appropriated funding is put to work quickly, before the highly infectious virus spreads further and the new outbreak gets out of hand.
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The boy, 2280, from a Congolese family who had crossed into western Uganda on June 9, was the first confirmed case of Ebola outside the Democratic Republic of Congo since the highly infectious illness erupted last summer in the eastern part of the vast African country.
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Because consumer spending on everything from dining out to buying cars contributes about two-thirds of U.S. gross domestic product, the economy won't truly "reopen" until consumers are confident they won't catch the highly-infectious coronavirus when they venture from their homes, or carry it to others, experts say.
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Because consumer spending on everything from dining out to buying cars contributes about two-thirds of U.S. gross domestic product, the economy won't truly "reopen" until consumers are confident they won't catch the highly-infectious coronavirus when they venture from their homes, or carry it to others, experts say.
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In a report on global efforts to "make measles history", the United Nations children's fund, the World Health Organization and other bodies said fight was being hampered not by a lack of tools or knowledge, but a lack of political will to get every child immunized against the highly infectious disease.
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They know the drill: Track new cases, make maps of everyone those people have come in close contact with, don protective gear to limit the spread of highly infectious blood and fluids, set up field clinics and quarantine units to box in the virus and let it burn out before it can break free.
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Measles is a highly infectious disease which can cause life-threatening pneumonia and swelling of the brain known as encephalitis and, yes, there is a vaccine for it, but in recent years, some people have chosen to ignore the advice of doctors and not get their kids vaccinated, which puts their children's and neighbors' lives at risk.
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In brief remarks on Wednesday evening after Mr. Trump announced his new role, Mr. Pence mentioned only one experience handling a public health crisis: the first domestic case of Middle East respiratory syndrome, a highly infectious and dangerous virus known as MERS, in 2014, in an Indiana health care worker who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia.
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We took a look at various factors that could make a particular occupation more susceptible to a breakout of a highly infectious illness: Risk of exposure to diseases and infections, physical proximity to other people, direct contact with the public, and freedom to make decisions like being able to stay home if they or their family members are ill.
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