Research favors testing and voluntary isolation over closures in disease outbreaks
Regular diagnostic testing and self-isolation can be more effective than school and business closures when it comes to combating infectious ...
Tag: outbreaks
Ocean warming intensifies viral outbreaks within corals
HOUSTON – (April 3, 2023) – The breathtaking colors of reef-building corals come from photosynthetic algae that live inside the ...
Can artificial intelligence predict spatiotemporal distribution of dengue fever outbreaks with remote sensing data? New study finds answers
Outbreaks of zoonotic diseases, which are those transmitted from animals to humans, are globally on the rise owing to climate ...
News you can use—to better predict food crisis outbreaks
A team of researchers has developed a machine learning model that draws from the contents of news articles to effectively ...
23 years of WHO Disease Outbreak News reports reveal how global threats posed by disease outbreaks have shifted over time
#### Credit: Carlson et al., 2023, PLOS Global Public Health, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) #### Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0001083 Article Title: The ...
SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks in care homes for the elderly and disabled in Germany
The introduction of COVID-19 vaccination and additional pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical measures helped to notably reduce the extent and severity of ...
Sickly shades of grey: disease outbreaks influence the color of wolves across North America
New research from the University of Oxford, Yellowstone National Park, and Penn State, published today in the journal Science, may ...
Sickly shades of grey: disease outbreaks influence the color of wolves across North America
New research from the University of Oxford, Yellowstone National Park, and Penn State, published today in the journal Science, may ...
Monkeypox outbreaks associated with human-to-human transmission outside endemic areas
Since May 2022, cases of monkeypox have increased globally, stirring fears of a new pandemic. A study published in the ...
Wastewater viral loads can provide advance warning of COVID-19 outbreaks
Scientists show that there is a close association between clinical cases of COVID-19 and viral loads in wastewater, with the ...
Study finds important differences in monkeypox symptoms between current and previous outbreaks
A study published by The BMJ today identifies important differences in monkeypox symptoms between the current outbreak and previous outbreaks ...
Changes in staffing in nursing homes during COVID-19 outbreaks
About The Study: In this study of nearly 3,000 nursing homes in 2020, owing to increased absences and departures, there ...
Consider farmers at individual level when controlling livestock disease outbreaks, researchers say
EMBARGOED: July 14, 2022, at 7pm BST /11am Pacific Time / 2pm Eastern Time Consider farmers at individual level ...
THE LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES: Monkeypox symptoms in patients attending London sexual health clinics differ from previous outbreaks, study of May 2022 UK outbreak suggests
Peer-reviewed/ Observational study/ People First study on cases from the ongoing outbreak of monkeypox in the UK looks at the ...
Gut infection outbreaks halved during first 6 months of COVID-19 pandemic in UK
The number of reported gastrointestinal infection outbreaks more than halved during the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in ...
New rapid COVID-19 test being developed at Lancaster University to improve response to future outbreaks
A new COVID-19 test being developed at Lancaster University and the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay, together with Glyconics©,could have ...
Researchers use mobile device data to predict COVID-19 outbreaks
Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health were able to accurately predict outbreaks of COVID-19 in Connecticut municipalities using anonymous ...
AI and genomic surveillance combine to detect health care infectious disease outbreaks
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 17, 2021 – By coupling machine learning with whole genome sequencing, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and ...
Potential immunization strategy to protect against future coronavirus outbreaks
Osaka, Japan – The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the β-coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), ...
Researchers demonstrate vaccination approach in mice that could prevent future coronavirus outbreaks
Researchers in Japan have developed a vaccination strategy in mice that promotes the production of antibodies that can neutralize not ...
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A new synthesis method for three-dimensional nanocarbons
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Within just a few months a deadly epidemic killed all the black sea urchins in the Gulf of Eilat – a great threat to the coral reef in Eilat
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How eating natto might help to distress
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GPS tracking reveals how a female baboon stopped using urban space after giving birth
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Promising building blocks for photonic quantum simulators
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Study highlights long-term benefits of family-based care following institutional care