"It is recommended that women postpone – to the extent possible – the decision to become pregnant until the country can move out of the epidemic phase of the Zika virus," the Colombian health authorities said, adding that those living in low altitude areas should move higher if possible, out of the easy range of mosquitoes.
Last week Colombia's health ministry called on women to postpone pregnancy plans until the country has moved out of the "epidemic phase" of infection that it estimated could last until July.
Moreover, most of the studies provide clinical or infection attack rates during the epidemic phase, while our study for the first time in our knowledge gives the immunity profile during the early phase and the first wave of the epidemic.
Finally, this random sample, closely representative of the population of Hong Kong and collected early in the epidemic phase, nonetheless was slightly older and less-well educated than the general population.
As opposed to the high risk group, the epidemic phase of HIV was slow to decline and the cumulative number of new infections attributed to HSV-2 continues to increase.
The lower average life expectancy and prolificacy of scrapie susceptible genotypes remain the main drivers for frequency changes throughout the epidemic phase of the infection, and lead to the gradual decrease of susceptible genotypes until the disease can no longer be sustained.
They then crashed in 2004 2005 during the epidemic phase.
The system returns the probability of being in an epidemic phase (via e-mail if desired).
This page presents the posterior probability of being in the epidemic phase.
After launching the application, the system returns that the posterior probability of being in the epidemic phase in the fourth week of the 2008 2009 season is 0.012, thus indicating that the epidemic phase has not begun.
Studies of the anxiety-behavior association throughout the SARS epidemic found consistently significant and positive associations during the early epidemic phase surveys but mostly non-significant associations in late epidemic phase surveys [ 6].
