The screenwriter Mary Loos (with whom Dwan worked often at Republic), he said, learned of the real-life outbreak of an animal-borne disease, and they (along with Loos's husband, Richard Sale) worked up a story on the basis of that news.
The basic science of prion diseases such as BSE and VCJD, as well as the epidemiology of real-life outbreaks, has made considerable strides since 1996, where the inquiry leaves off.
(In the first real-life Nipah outbreak, in Malaysia in 1999, most victims were pig farmers and butchers).
The current real-life listeria outbreak caused by Colorado cantaloupes became national news less than two weeks ago.
Although short-term interventions such as food replacement mitigate the loss of life during outbreaks, it is necessary to develop long-term, culturally appropriate strategies to prevent aflatoxicosis.
Life-threatening outbreaks of diarrhea and cholera were rife.
Since then, EV71 has been isolated globally and causes life-threatening outbreaks in young children in Asia (4 – 10 ).
She led a nomadic life until the outbreak of World War II, at which time she settled permanently in the United States.
Kramer wrote the original, fiery Normal Heart play based largely on his life around the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic in New York City.
Kraków was an influential centre of Jewish spiritual life before the outbreak of World War II, with all its manifestations of religious observance from Orthodox to Chasidic and Reform flourishing side by side.
BRAZZAVILLE/DAKAR, 25 March 2011 - Health experts today confirmed that a devastating polio epidemic in west African countries is on the verge of being stopped - but warned that complacency could breathe new life into the outbreak.
