Sentence examples for existing epidemic from inspiring English sources

New epidemic strains could potentially occur through mutation of existing epidemic strains or through gene transfer.

It is possible that a pandemic strain would out-compete the existing epidemic influenza strains and the background ILI rate would fall.

School-specific closure criteria, though absent from most states' existing epidemic influenza plans, appear to be important in disease control because of the dynamics of transmission.

A far reaching communication and social mobilisation campaign aimed at informing the population across the country of the existing epidemic outbreak and the measures they ought to take to prevent becoming ill, is underway.

Thus, the use of whole-genome sequencing to trace the evolution of a strain involved in an ongoing outbreak is clinically relevant both for understanding an existing epidemic and for tracking related cases occurring in other regions.

We then estimated, using the existing epidemic curve, the probability that a person who was vaccinated had not previously been infected with A(H1N1 pdm09 virus and had a clinical or subclinical case and the probability that a person would be infected during the remaining portion of the season.

What efforts are being made to diagnose, contain and treat existing epidemics?

This model attempts to describe the control (vaccination) function as a function of the number of infective individuals, which is an improvement over the existing susceptible infective epidemic models.

This complicates the development of cross-protective immunity i.e. the ability to cover several different isolates; rather, influenza vaccines must regularly be updated to match existing seasonal epidemic flu isolates.

Obesity, as measured by BMI and WHtR, is strongly associated with the increase in diabetes prevalence, especially in younger and middle-aged adults, and is generally congruent with the existing obesity epidemic as a driving force for the increase in diabetes prevalence for all age-groups and reinforces the call for prevention efforts.

Using sophisticated genetic techniques, an international team of researchers have revealed that the virus emerged from a pre-existing epidemic in the Caribbean, arrived in New York by the early 1970s and then spread westwards across the US.