Secondly, the US administration deployed some 3,000 military personnel in Liberia to reinforce outbreak-control measures.
While spatial and temporal variation in misreporting are likely to affect the ability of outbreak definitions to identify consistent outbreaks, it is likely that the common propensity for over-reporting of dengue cases during outbreaks and underreporting at other times would only reinforce the consistent distinction between outbreak periods and non-outbreak periods (Teutsch and Churchill, 2000).
Pathogenic bacteria are discussed in Chapter 11, which includes some recent bacterial outbreaks to reinforce the notion of "how quickly microbes can evolve" (p. 262).
This outbreak reinforces the importance of vigilance in the early identification of emerging infections to ensure rapid identification of cases, containment of an outbreak, and effective management.
The results of this study reinforce existing evidence that smallpox outbreak severity may be in part a consequence of the VARV strain associated with the outbreak and suggests that VARV virulence is a complex trait influenced by multiple genetic loci.
The defenses of the town consisted essentially of an old Moorish Alcazaba and a medieval wall dating from the Almohad period, reinforced since the outbreak of the war in 1640 by various newly built bulwarks and ravelins.
You can also reinforce your statement about the outbreak by saying something like "I hope I'm not getting the strep throat that is going around because I'm looking forward to a dinner with friends".. Fight your fake symptoms before they turn into a full-blown case of strep throat.
It is one of the reasons why the health authorities decided during the outbreak, in April 2006, to reinforce the laboratory surveillance system by introducing syndromic surveillance.
In December 2013 one of the Globemasters which was deployed to the Middle East was, along with a RAAF Hercules, tasked with flying peacekeepers into South Sudan to reinforce the United Nations force there following an outbreak of fighting.
This and other widespread outbreaks of Salmonella spp. infection reinforce the need to increase the timeliness of case follow-up, molecular subtyping, and the linkage of results between them that can reduce delays in the investigation of foodborne outbreaks (7 ).
Most of the cases were detected through the specific procedures instituted to reinforce the active surveillance of the HA throughout the outbreak: reporting from laboratory (32.4%) and nursery (20.6%), interviews with the detected cases (17.6%), and some other ways (5.9%).
