(1) During the study period four family outbreaks and seven recurrences of infection were observed.
(2) Some international coverage of the outbreak was accused of misinforming western readers.
(3) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(4) Last week the WHO said the outbreak had reached a critical point, and announced a $200m (£120m) emergency fund.
(5) Although the incidence of acute rheumatic fever has declined in the last decades, a few outbreaks have recently been reported.
(6) The effect of scrotal mange (Chorioptes bovis) on semen quality was assessed in a flock of rams during an outbreak of chorioptic mange and in rams with experimentally induced chorioptic mange.
(7) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
(8) The present study identifies and values the costs of a hospital based outbreak of poultry-borne salmonellosis.
(9) In a statement the Los Angeles County department of public health said: "Though legionella bacteria was identified in a water sample taken from the Playboy Mansion, this bacteria has not been determined as the source of the respiratory outbreak.
(10) However, focal outbreaks in small scale still occurred every year.
(11) The number of reported outbreaks increased from 20 in 1981 to 64 in 1988, 114 in 1989, 82 in 1990 and 52 in 1991 (January to June).
(12) This was achieved by means of postal questionnaires, coupled with the biochemical and serological examination of bacterial isolates from 91 outbreaks in poultry and from nine cases in other avian species.
(13) The authors studied 1,211 laboratory-confirmed, non-outbreak-related cases of giardiasis in Vermont residents reported through Vermont's laboratory-based active surveillance system between 1983 and 1986.
(14) If Abbott changes his formulation, he could risk an outbreak of ill-discipline within his own ranks, because these days the conservatives are more inclined to public outbreaks off-script than the moderates.
(15) Crises such as the Ebola outbreak in west Africa and mass displacement in Central African Republic, South Sudan and Syria triggered a 22% rise in humanitarian spending among the DAC’s 28 member countries, which spent $13bn in that area last year, the OECD said.
(16) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
(17) A major outbreak in Kent in 2012 saw 2,000 trees felled.
(18) On the basis of the analysis of 69 outbreaks of hospital infections registered in the USSR in 1986-1989, as well as additional observations made by the authors, a number of factors which determined the present state of the problems concerning this kind of morbidity in the USSR were established: an insufficient level (in cases of enteric infections) or a low level (in cases of purulent septic infections) of etiological diagnosis; poor efficiency of the epidemiological investigation of outbreaks; defects in the work on the prophylactic detection of potential sources of infection among medical staff, parturient women or mothers taking care of their infants.
(19) The restriction enzyme patterns of the nine clinical isolates from the 1983 Massachusetts outbreak were identical to each other but differed from those of raw milk isolates recovered from sources supplying the pasteurizer.
(20) An isolated colony of red squirrels at Formby , Merseyside, were decimated by an outbreak of squirrelpox in 2008 , which saw the population crash by 85% to less than 200 squirrels.
Tumult
Definition:
(n.) The commotion or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion.
(n.) Violent commotion or agitation, with confusion of sounds; as, the tumult of the elements.
(n.) Irregular or confused motion; agitation; high excitement; as, the tumult of the spirits or passions.
(v. i.) To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arab women can claim to have been all these things and more during the three months of tumult that have shaken the region.
(2) Houthis and their Saudi foes have begun talks to try to end Yemen’s war , two officials said, in what appears their most serious bid to close a theatre of Saudi-Iranian rivalry deepening political tumult across the Middle East.
(3) Don’t dream of any revolution again.” Mubarak’s release comes amid an economic crisis following years of political tumult and worsening security.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ballymurphy killings: IRA shootings under dispute – video What emerges above all else from the many contemporary statements and the recollections of those who were present is an impression of tumult, chaos and confusion.
(5) Far away from the tumult of independence, eight British and American consultants from the Ford Foundation had gathered in Berkeley, California, to review maps, draw up plans, and mock up drafts of India’s new capital city.
(6) Syntagma is likely to see more tumult in the months to come – next year is poised to be the roughest since Greece descended into economic freefall following revelations of the true scale of its budget deficit in late 2009.
(7) Patten took the last word when he appeared before MPs on Monday, telling them the current tumult would help "transform the BBC and make it a more trusted national institution – more trusted than it is today, which is reasonably high but not as high as it should be".
(8) Jack Stewart, junior doctor, 28, London: ‘I voted in favour of the new contract, but am now backing this strike’ I voted yes to the contract in May because, with the tumult surrounding Brexit, it felt like the best deal we were likely to get.
(9) They were saved by a diver who shouted above the tumult that they should swim out to sea, rather than to the shore.
(10) In a sign of the political tumult that lies ahead, Antonis Samaras, New Democracy's leader, said he would seek to create a "government of national salvation" that would attempt to amend the loan agreement Greece had signed with its "troika" of creditors, the EU, European Central Bank and IMF.
(11) If the yes side wins, the people of the third Scotland will benefit from a huge injection of self-validation, and surely carve out a role within the resulting tumult.
(12) The third storm – political tumult brought about by the rise of populist political movements – poses yet another serious threat.
(13) With a cliffhanger third and final vote now due on 29 December, Greece’s beleaguered prime minister, Antonis Samaras, warned MPs of the political tumult that would ensue if they failed then to support the government’s presidential candidate.
(14) After the country declared independence in 1962, a quarter of a century of political tumult and violence followed.
(15) Seeking to calm nerves at a time of economic tumult, the central bank said it guarantees deposits in all currencies and that individuals and companies would face no restrictions in depositing and withdrawing foreign currency.
(16) It is from his years of therapy, you assume, that he learned to talk so calmly about his internal tumult.
(17) Her body clock is set to New York time and her system is a tumult of sleeping pills and caffeine.
(18) Don't Cry For Me Cobham retraces the magical and tumultous story of the nation's seventh-favourite jobbing TV presenter through the medium of classic Andrew Lloyd Webber-penned showstoppers like I'm Princess Tippytoes (about Turner's spat with GMTV co-host Eamonn Holmes, played here by Danny DeVito), Yes, I'm Still Going On About Tracy Island, and the riotous Smash His Face Up, about her husband Grant Bovey's epic 2002 Celebrity Boxing bout with Ricky Gervais.
(19) But this Saturday, on the first anniversary of the disputed elections that gave rise to the biggest challenge to the Islamic republic's authority in its 30-year history, a repeat of such tumult is hard to imagine.
(20) The deals collapsed in 2008 when the housing market plunged and the scale of the risks was exposed, and the resulting financial tumult led to the biggest crisis since the Great Depression.