Sentence examples for response to epidemics from inspiring English sources

Aid donors missed a golden opportunity at the G7 summit in Germany to lay out measures for a far more vigorous response to epidemics such as the Ebola outbreak, according to Joanne Liu, the head of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

The news coverage also marked a turning point in journalism's efforts to hold officials accountable for their response to epidemics that can threaten the lives of thousands of people, as well as tourism, international trade and world economies.

Jones, at Harvard Medical School, said in the late 19th century in response to epidemics of cholera, a bacterial disease whose pathogen spreads via water, cities made massive investments in water treatment processes, including sand filtration.

Merkel also announced that G7 governments had signed up to initiatives to work for an end to extreme poverty and hunger, reducing by 2030 the number of people living in hunger and malnutrition by 500 million, as well as improving the global response to epidemics in the light of the Ebola crisis.

But while they agreed on the need for an international response to epidemics in developing countries, they differed on what that role should be — some calling for a large-scale effort to strengthen health-care systems in the region; others suggesting that such a task should not be forced on nations with many needs.

Chapter 4 examines the turn-of-the-century response to epidemics in the border region leading to new methods of household inspection and quarantine after the U.S. military occupation of Cuba and subsequent discovery of the yellow fever vector (with credit due to both Cubans and U.S. doctors).

His research focuses on the use of quantitative models for improving the response to epidemic diseases.

A: Launched in 2014 by then Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the Global Health Security Agenda provides a global platform that supports innovations in the detection, prevention, and response to epidemic outbreaks.

The yellow fever vaccine has now been introduced in routine infant immunisation programmes in the majority of regions at risk in Africa and the Americas, and emergency campaigns in response to epidemic threats have been largely successful.

If that was the only proper response to epidemic diseases that might carry away loved ones, inoculation was an abomination.

These findings further support the use of OCV in response to epidemic and endemic cholera.