The phrase
"health menace" refers to something or someone that poses a threat or danger to people's well-being and can cause harm to their health.
Full definition
You've probably already heard that chairs have replaced cigarettes as the newest
public health menace.
These are not public
health menaces like cholera, and its harder than the ALB to quantify their harm.
These midwives are a public
health menace.
If this free Happy Meal is a once - in - a-blue-moon occurrence, I don't interpret that as a public
health menace.
Larvae can grow in mere bottle - capfuls of rainwater, so saucers under potted plants or puddles in a crumpled tarp can become a public
health menace.
Whether the rise of e-cigarettes is welcome news or a fresh face on an old public -
health menace is not yet clear.
Meanwhile, C. diff has become a major public
health menace.
Major snowstorms are a mess and, it turns out,
a health menace.