The Cariboo Lumber Manufacturers' Association (CLMA) and the Northern Forest Products Association (NFPA) have joined to form the Mountain Pine Beetle Emergency Task Force to fight the
epidemic. Working with the Ministry of Forestry and the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, the task force is trying to come up with a strategic plan for salvaging the forests and the economic stability of the area, which is highly dependent on the timber industry.
But during an
epidemic, testing for influenza may often be superfluous.
Despite poor surveillance for dengue in Africa,
epidemic dengue fever caused by all four serotypes has increased dramatically since 1980.
Today, the African-American church is being challenged to respond to the AIDS
epidemic. Faith-based HIV/AIDS organizations have been formed in recent years to involve the black church in HIV prevention.
Usually, doctors or other health care workers diagnose the flu on the basis of whether flu is
epidemic in the community and whether the patient's complaints fit the current pattern of symptoms.
The lessons that the NLGTF, along with other advocacy groups and national media sources, want the Shepard case to teach are clearly drawn: There is an "
epidemic" of anti-gay crime in America, particularly in unsophisticated backwaters such as Wyoming; hate crime legislation is the only remedy; opponents of such laws are themselves allied with the forces of darkness.
"It is important that a National
Epidemic be declared to identify if a localized response is needed, and to enable the local government units to use their Quick Response Fund to address the
epidemic situation," Duque said.
Among the areas that exceeded the
epidemic thresholds are Lapu-Lapu City and Sibonga town in Cebu province; Tagbilaran City and the towns of Trinidad, Cortes, Dauis, Clarin, and Loon in Bohol province; and, Lazi town of Siquijor province.
Nicole Gollnick of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment of Germany explained that the workshop participants will have to find out the cause of the simulated
epidemic outbreak and offer solutions to the crisis.
This
epidemic, however, was not ignored by an iconoclastic group of South African trauma surgeons who assiduously documented the
epidemic for over six decades.
TEHRAN (FNA)- A new
epidemic erupted in the war-torrn Yemen and threatens the lives of Yemenis who are already at risk of a cholera
epidemic, local reports said.
Proportionally, more
epidemics are caused by other meningococcal serogroups (e.g., serogroup W) that have less salient
epidemic patterns, limiting detection through district-level surveillance and delaying intervention measures (3).