This finding helps predict disease outbreaks in a warming world.
The European region has seen measles re-emerge with outbreaks in a number of countries including Georgia, Turkey and Ukraine.
Study design: Faecal specimens were collected during the week of highest incidence from 21 outbreaks in a variety of health care settings including hospitals and nursing homes.
The report concluded that the "F.D.A.'s ability to provide its basic food system inspection, enforcement and rule-making functions is severely eroded, as is its ability to respond to outbreaks in a timely manner".
A cholera epidemic is sweeping across Kenya, with 4,700 cases reported in the past month and 119 deaths in what Kenyan officials are calling "one of the worst outbreaks in a decade".
NAIROBI, Kenya — A cholera epidemic is sweeping across Kenya, with 4,700 cases reported in the past month and 119 deaths in what Kenyan officials are calling "one of the worst outbreaks in a decade".
But Australia, where winter recently ended, just suffered one of its deadliest outbreaks in a decade, and the H3N2 and B Yamagata strains that dominated there are now the most common ones in the United States.
The group will conduct so-called sentiment analysis of messages in social networks and text messages — using natural-language deciphering software — to help predict job losses, spending reductions or disease outbreaks in a given region.
The design and implementation of the on-line toolkit underscores the benefits of the approach to monitor vector-borne disease outbreaks in a timely manner and at different scales, facilitating the appropriate allocation of resources.
He is also trying to gear up the country's highly decentralised public health system designed to cope with food-poisoning outbreaks in a single city or state to prepare for disaster on a much bigger scale.
But, says Jeremy Farrar, an infectious diseases expert and the director of the Wellcome Trust, any data gleaned from the use of those drugs will be put together with evidence from future outbreaks in a five-year programme that may lead to effective and licensed treatments.
