But increased research usually follows epidemics like autism, childhood asthma, and metabolic syndrome rather than preceding and preventing them.
Following an epidemic, however, the host population tends to revert to a condition of susceptibility because of: (1) the deterioration of individual immunity; (2) the removal of immune individuals by death; and (3) the influx of susceptible individuals by birth.
Following the epidemic in the early 1960s, Stella Chase and her colleagues at New York University reported "a strikingly high prevalence of autism in a population" of children with CRS.
Following the epidemic of 1990, the National Malaria Control Programme, later renamed the National Vector-borne Disease Control Programme was set up by the Ministry of Health and Social Services [ 21].
Following this epidemic, a national veterinary surveillance plan was put in place in 2001 to identify the geographical areas at risk for reintroduction of the WNV infection.
Following assessment, Epidemic Zone was lifted on 14 April in Jingbian County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province [reference] as there were no new cases reported in the affected areas for 6 weeks.
« Following the epidemics of poliomyelitis and measles faced by our Country, the Government of Congo put vaccination on top of the national priorities in 2012, declaring it the Year of Health», affirmed the Ministry of Health, Mr. François Ibovi.
Based on the ideas from Cazelles and Stone [ 32], we rescaled time for each epidemic as follows: Each epidemic was mapped onto the interval |0, 4π|, with the beginning mapped to time 0, the first (fall) peak to π, the inter-peak decay to 2π, the second (spring) peak to 3π and finally the end of the epidemic to 4π.
Following the disease epidemic, house finch declines were greatest where the density of people feeding birds also fell dramatically.
Following the SARS epidemic, intensive surveillance detected a great diversity of CoVs throughout the animal kingdom.
