Sentences with phrase «epidemic spreading»

A few people who talk with or touch many others can keep an epidemic spreading that would die out in a more cautious or introverted community.

As society breaks down, reporter Francine Parker (Gaylen Ross) and pilot Stephen Andrews (David Emgee) reel in the news of anarchy and chaos within their news station as a doctor and a reporter argue over the epidemic spreading across the nation.

Consequently, the researchers said: «These new complexities uncovered in our study suggest a need for new containment strategies to combat the epidemic spreading in some more realistic circumstances.»

But an opioid addiction epidemic spreading across the United States has soured some doctors on the drugs.

If that's true, and I think it is, then someone should alert the Centers for Disease Control because there's an insanity epidemic spreading across the business world like wildfire.

As the Zika epidemic spreads to the United States, the potential for contracting the disease via blood transfusion has emerged as a serious concern.

In 1993/1994, an unexpectedly fatal and widespread CDV epidemic spread through lions and spotted hyenas in the Serengeti National Park (NP) in northwestern Tanzania.

The test is said to provide results in around 10 minutes, and could be instrumental in stopping the epidemic spread of diseases such as Ebola.

«World War Z» Synopsis: A worldwide zombie epidemic spreads throughout, threatening a journalist in an attempt to reveal the truth.

After an epidemic spread all over Australia, a father searches for someone willing to protect his daughter.

[4] * Oh, and explain how prohibiting TNR and the feeding of outdoor cats will, as ABC claims, «stop the epidemic spread of feral cats.»

Or, how prohibiting TNR and the feeding of outdoor cats would, as ABC claims in its October 2011 letter to big - city mayors — to which Antoniotti refers in her story — «stop the epidemic spread of feral cats that threaten national bird populations as well as scores of other wildlife.»

Its epidemic spread is along the pathways of human commerce, but it spreads no faster than people travel.

Not exact matches

About 300 people have been killed by the disease, which is spread by mosquitoes and kills about 8 % of people who contract it since July 2017, causing concerns about an epidemic if the virus hits the country's densely populated cities.

The ransomware epidemic is spreading because there are vulnerabilities in the Microsoft (msft) operating systems that are installed in millions of computers around the world.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Perhaps this is why, as this drug epidemic has spread, our efforts have been so unavailing and we have struggled even to describe it.

As Charles Krauthammer has put it, AIDS is the archetypal behavioral epidemic: it is not spread through the water supply or the air, it is not transmitted in contaminated food or infected fomites.

Whether the totalitarian governments collapse or change their ways and whether the change comes soon or late, the epidemic of purges and the spreading disaffection of once enthusiastic followers reinforce the old lesson that power in itself is no cure for man's ills, and that human institutions are not equal to the task of assuring human salvation.

Filthy Sodomite behavior is spreading epidemic deadly disease like Shigella, Gonorrhea Herpes and AIDS

Aid groups in Haiti are optimistic that they can keep a fast - spreading cholera epidemic out of the capital city of Port au Prince.

Archbishop Justin and Patriarch Kirill also suggested: «We ought not to forget preventative measures against the ideology of extremism that has spread throughout the world under the influence of militants like an epidemic.

A nurse and midwife who routinely deals with AIDS in families lamented the effect of anarchic sexual practices on the spread of the epidemic.

43 The Prayer Book uses it only of bishops; in monastic usage the tide «Father» for abbots, or for older, professed, or ordained members of the monastic family generally is ancient; in modern times it gradually spread, through the active missionary orders doubtless, to the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland; the heroic ministry of Charles Lowder and other priests during the cholera epidemic of 1866 in London seems to have started the common use of «Father» for nonmonastic Anglicans.

As the leading nonprofit health and fitness certification organization, our mission is to get people moving, because we believe physical activity can play a major role in preventing and reversing the epidemic of chronic, lifestyle - related diseases spreading the globe.

At least one study implicates changes in surrounding landscape (increased proportion of pastures) in greater rust spread / epidemics.

The campaign is part of a larger effort by Hilton Worldwide's flagship brand to combat «Vacationitis,» defined as an «epidemic creating high levels of stress and claiming countless hours of unused vacation time as it spreads among employees who have not taken enough time off this year.»

While attending the Institute of Coaching's Fifth Annual Conference in Boston recently, along with 700 other health and leadership coaches, I had the opportunity to listen to public health guru Dr. David Katz spread his health message: that we, as a society, need to curb the obesity epidemic.

Has there been an epidemic of disease spread by the hospital lab coat?

Vaccines keep parents and children safe from preventable diseases, and help stop the spread of illnesses, such as the flu, that could turn into an epidemic or have...

Some experts trace the obesity epidemic to the spread of video games, computers, and other forms of screen time.

«The federal government's continued inaction on this issue has not only allowed the epidemic of gun violence to spread, but it has left it to the states to provide the leadership needed to confront this problem head on,» Gov. Cuomo said.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP & WXXI News) Gov. Andrew Cuomo has taken steps to make it easier for New Yorkers to get the influenza vaccine as the flu epidemic continues to spread across the state.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo has taken steps to make it easier for New Yorkers to get the influenza vaccine as the flu epidemic continues to spread across the state.

However, the federal government's continued inaction on this issue has not only allowed the epidemic of gun violence to spread, but it has actually prevented the laws like the SAFE Act from being fully effective,» Cuomo said.

Added to this a cholera epidemic, exacerbated by a disintegrating healthcare system, spread across the country claiming hundreds of lives.

Concerns over the proliferation of illegal tattoo shops and the spread of communicable diseases have increased due to the current opioid epidemic which has contributed to the spread of Hepatitis C. Legislator Burke's initiative is a common sense reform to ensure the health and safety of the residents of Erie County.

Governor's HIV / AIDS Epidemic Blueprint Improves HIV Testing, Prevents the Spread of Disease, and Provides Better Treatment

Honduras has reported its first death from a paralysing illness linked to the Zika virus, a mosquito - borne epidemic that is spreading through Latin America and also suspected of causing birth defects.

«The Bronx has been hard hit by the heroin and opioid epidemic, which is why I'm doing everything in my power to help spread awareness and combat this deadly scourge.

«Worldwide problems such the Ebola virus outbreak, the rapid spread of microbes resistant to antibiotics, and the diabetes epidemic are objective evidence of the need for more research and better treatment,» Lattman said Monday.

The NY Post reports that the epidemic of politicians leading secret online lives has spread to the Bronx.

A pandemic is an epidemic (an outbreak of an infectious disease) that spreads worldwide, or at least across a large region.

By integrating methods of statistical physics, computational science, and geographic information systems with classical network theory, the researchers have been able to find patterns that could help address problems as diverse as urban traffic congestion and the spread of epidemics.

The 2003 SARS epidemic not only spread quickly but also far and wide.

But more than 220 years ago, this same breed of mosquito was spreading a different and deadly epidemic right here in Philadelphia and just like Zika, this epidemic is seeing a modern resurgence, with Brazil at its epicenter.

The WHO's declaration of a global public health emergency is the third ever made under international regulations enacted in 2007; the first came in 2009 during the H1N1 influenza epidemic and the second in May, warning of the potential for international spread of the polio virus.

By limiting movements, the authorities create greater risks: «Preliminary studies showed that there is a critical value for the reduction in movements — around 80 - 90 % — that prevents the spread of an epidemic across a population.

Speakers from the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and State described the different roles that their agencies are playing when it comes to slowing the spread of the Ebola epidemic.

As a result, Dye said, the virus spread for at least three months before the epidemic was visible.