Sentences with phrase «estimated death toll»

While police said 11 were killed, Bishop Hilary estimates the death toll to be 13, with another 26 people injured.

[But] Church of Pakistan leaders... estimate the death toll to be at least 150, with hundreds more wounded.»

To estimate the death toll if a pandemic struck today, they applied each country's 1918 death rate to its 2004 population.

There's no nationwide reporting of birds thumping into glass or succumbing to a paw, so estimating death tolls has long been difficult and controversial (SN: 9/21/13, p. 20).

Cleaveland has developed a now widely used method to estimate the death toll, using the numbers of bites by dogs thought to be rabid, as well as records of postexposure vaccine use.

More recently, an aerial survey using high - tech laser equipment upended that number, estimating the death toll at close to 120 million trees — as much as 20 percent of the state's total.

Not exact matches

Estimates of the death toll range from about 40 to more than 150.

One website estimates Bitcoin's death toll stands at 249 and counting, dating back to 2010.

If the estimates are confirmed, it would be among the highest civilian death tolls since the war started in 2003, and one of the highest civilian body counts caused by the U.S. military since the Vietnam War.

Most scholars place the death toll at around 800,000, although estimates range from 500,000 to 1.2 million.

As rescue efforts continue, the Chinese government's estimate for the ultimate death toll rises

Early surveys by the World Health Organization (WHO) found a two - month death rate of 10,000 a month, and later estimates simply extended the death toll based on that rate, up to 180,000 after 18 months.

The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that the global death toll from the 2009 pandemic was more than 284,000.

President Benigno Aquino told CNN the death toll from the typhoon was 2,000 to 2,500, saying «emotional drama» was behind the higher estimate.

Scientists agree they need better estimates for the death toll from the world's major killers.

Academics have been frequent targets of killings and abductions in Iraq the past year — part of a campaign that appears aimed at thwarting reconstruction efforts and silencing intellectuals; some estimates put the death toll in the hundreds.

Using this basis, he has calculated a death toll estimate and economic loss estimate for each event since late 2009.

The death toll for the blast was estimated to be more than 10,000.

For sub-Saharan Africa (where heterosexual sex is primarily responsible for the HIV epidemic), circumcision has the potential to dramatically reduce the toll of the virus, which WHO estimates of up to 5.7 million new infections and three million deaths averted over the next 20 years.

The best estimate for the current toll in Africa, 21,000 deaths, comes from a 2015 paper by Hampson and colleagues; it's 100 times higher than official figures.

Currently, an estimated number of 700,000 patients die from infections with these strains every year — and this death toll might rise.

Norovirus, which is incorrectly called the «stomach flu,» isn't a virus that most people would associate with death (although you may prefer to be dead if you catch it), but its annual death toll is estimated to be 200,000, mostly due to dehydration in developing areas that lack clean water.

Estimates of the death toll range from 200 to more than 3000, as the Chinese government never released any official data or a list of the deceased.

Biologists also have used the studies from Marra, Temple, and a number of others to estimate the total U.S. death toll for birds due to cat predation as more than a billion per year.

The Americas boast some exceedingly unpleasant and sometimes aggressive snakes; there are nine to 14 deaths a year in the US despite the availability of antivenom; in South America the death toll is higher — for example, it has been estimated at 2,000 a year in Brazil.

They spread through Napa Valley, consuming whole towns in Sonoma, Mendocino, and Yuba counties; the latest estimate from Cal Fire, the state's firefighting agency, puts the death toll at 42 across the state.

estimates an annual death toll of 50,000 due to the inevitable sulphuric precipitation.

An accurate death toll estimate is impossible, but one can reasonably calculate that the additional quantities of water involved have been in the range of hundreds of millions of tons.

But to reach even the low end of past estimates, the death toll would have to rise enormously.

Death toll estimated at 150,000 to 550,000.

And the estimate from the NGO's working on earthquake retrofits in Katmandu were a death toll of 40,000.

As the northeast coast mourns and struggles in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the U.S. death toll nears 100 and experts estimate up to $ 20 billion in total insured damages.

In Part 1 of this series we saw that even if one gives credence to the oft - repeated but flawed estimates from the World Health Organization of the present - day contribution of climate change to global mortality, other factors contribute many times more to the global death toll.

With the science understood, with the financial stakes so high and with shocking estimates of the current human death toll from global warming, why does Jeffrey Holmstead make a career working for an industry that is killing people?

These exceed the estimated annual toll of 141,000 deaths and 5.4 million lost DALYs that the World Health Organization attributes to global warming.