Sentence examples for acute outbreaks from inspiring English sources

Finally, extreme weather can lead to acute outbreaks of infectious disease while at the same time reducing access to health care.

"While many chronic diseases cause untold suffering in poorer countries, the worst acute outbreaks of deadly diseases such as measles or cholera have usually occurred in the wake of another type of disaster.

Attack rates typically are used in the investigation of acute outbreaks of disease, where they can help identify exposures that contributed to the illness (e.g., consumption of a specific food).

We discuss the potential design of clinical trials in these patients and how an antiviral therapy that proves effective in immunocompromised patients might also be used in the setting of acute outbreaks, especially in confined settings such as nursing homes, to block the spread of infection and reduce the severity of illness.

Of all the forecast models the Ollerenshaw index [23] was the first widely used system to predict acute outbreaks and manage control strategies in the UK.

Using existing state-based infrastructure provides an innovative means for investigating acute outbreaks.

"With an acute outbreak this large, we expect the attenuation to take quite some time.

To describe the epidemiology of an outbreak of Salmonella enteritidis phage type 1 (PT1) infection associated with a fast food premises, and to identify the causative factors leading to an acute outbreak with high attack rate and severe illness including hospital admission.

In deer species, the highest prevalence ever recorded was described in New Zealand, where an acute outbreak at prevalence higher than 90% in young fawns occurred in a farm [33].

Nevertheless, several limitations should be noted about the use of population-based telephone surveys in responding to acute outbreak scenarios.

This report is an account of an acute outbreak of EHV-1 in a mixed horse operation.