If isolated people do manage to avoid epidemics, the loss of land, and violence by hostile outsiders, they may find little comfort in the struggling villages along the Curanja.
After Prapiroon dissipated, the regional Disease Prevention and Control Center of Guangxi Autonomous Region sent out eight teams of health workers to help avoid epidemics in affected areas.
In order to avoid epidemics, humanitarian assistance concentrated on providing food, water, and medical treatment.
Whether the IHRs primarily benefit wealthy states seeking to avoid epidemics or can also address burdens of disease in poorer countries will depend upon the nature of future efforts to build surveillance and response capacity in support of the IHRs.
The present work analyzes the transmission dynamics of malaria in these areas to propose measures for avoiding epidemic outbreaks due to the construction of two Hydroelectric Power Plants.
It's crucial for avoiding epidemics and we're really pleased that so far, there have been no serious outbreaks of disease in Don Bosco or the other camps in Dili".
To avoid an epidemic of incurable AIDS, new drugs must be discovered faster than old ones become useless.
Yet police and drug experts believe that the number is still small enough to avoid an epidemic.
Richard Widmark, right, plays the hero, a public health department doctor who tries to track down the victim's contacts and avoid an epidemic.
The goal, said William Thies, chief medical and scientific officer for the Alzheimer's Association, is "extending the range of our ability to investigate this disease and eventually find the treatment that is going to be so necessary to avoid the epidemic of Alzheimer's disease that we see facing us over the next 40 years".
