Sentences with phrase «deaths reported worldwide»

The good news is that with only 340 cases of avian flu and 209 deaths reported worldwide since 2003 (as of press time), there is still time to prepare.

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In one of the most extensive reports of its kind, environmental health experts have estimated that nine million premature deaths worldwide — 16 % of all deaths — were linked to pollution in 2015, with the majority of deaths coming from air pollution.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

This means that by taking an over-the-counter medication, people can ward off a disease that, according to Alzheimer's Disease International's World Alzheimer Report 2016, affects an estimated 47 million people worldwide, costs health care systems worldwide more than US$ 818 billion per year and is the fifth leading cause of death in those aged 65 or older.

Professor Robert West, lead author of the report commented «The death and suffering caused worldwide by tobacco far outstrips anything that terrorists have been able to inflict.

This past summer, he and his colleagues reported their first findings from the trial: Tranexamic acid reduced bleeding deaths among trauma patients by about 15 percent, a result that could translate to 100,000 lives saved per year worldwide.

As of December 20th 2015, 28,637 cases and 11,315 deaths from Ebola have been reported worldwide, the vast majority of them in West Africa.

The 2009 swine H1N1 flu pandemic — responsible for more than 17,000 deaths worldwide — originated in pigs from a very small region in central Mexico, a research team headed by investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is reporting.

Instead, in a chart on page 26 of the report on «expected fatalities per year, worldwide, from a variety of causes,» asteroids are compared with shark attacks (three to seven deaths), firearms accidents (2,500), earthquakes (36,000), malaria (one million), traffic accidents (1.2 million), air pollution (two million), HIV / AIDS (2.1 million) and tobacco (five million).

The World Health Organization reported that in 2012, 1 in 8 deaths worldwide stemmed from air pollution.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that over sixteen million deaths occur worldwide each year due to cardiovascular disease, and more than half of those deaths occur in developing countries where plant - based diets high in legumes and starches are eaten by the vast majority of the people.

(NaturalHealth365) According to the World Health Organization, cancer is one of the leading causes of sickness and premature death, worldwide, with about 14 million new cases reported in 2012, alone.

In 2004, it was reported that chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease accounted for 29 million deaths worldwide in 2002 5.

(NaturalHealth365) The UN has released a report that condemns the use of toxic pesticides — and attributes over 200,000 deaths per year, worldwide, to their use.

Ever since TreeHugger first started reporting on the mysterious honeybee deaths afflicting beekeepers worldwide, there have been countless suggestions of possible causes, and cures, for this worrisome phenomenon.

The International Energy Agency recently released a report attributing an annual 6.5 million premature deaths to air pollution worldwide.

Here are a couple of striking numbers from the data: in the decade from 2004 to 2013, worldwide climate - related deaths (including droughts, floods, extreme temperatures, wildfires, and storms) plummeted to a level 88.6 percent below that of the peak decade, 1930 to 1939.2 The year 2013, with 29,404 reported deaths, had 99.4 percent fewer climate - related deaths than the historic record year of 1932, which had 5,073,283 reported deaths for the same category.

There already have been reports of mass coral death around the Pacific atoll of Kiribati this year — and widespread coral bleaching worldwide, a phenomenon that scientists attribute to a strong El Niño event surfing atop a general climate warming trend.

The report concluded that because of the Montreal Protocol, there would be 19.1 million fewer cases of non-melanoma skin cancer, 1.5 million fewer cases of melanoma, 129 million fewer cases of cataracts, and 330,000 fewer skin cancer deaths worldwide.

There have already been two reported deaths worldwide as a result of these drugs.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that as high as 50 percent of international travelers suffer some form of traveler's diarrhea and diarrheal diseases account for 1 in 9 child deaths worldwide, making diarrhea the second leading cause of death for children under the age of five.

According to the WHO, suicide was the second - leading cause of death worldwide in 2012 among people aged 15 — 29 years.1 In addition, a systemic review reported a strong association between self - harm and later suicide, with the risk of suicide among patients with deliberate self - harm (DSH) being hundreds of times higher than that in the general population.2 The terminology surrounding DSH is, however, complex.