Sentences with phrase «high death toll»

Unlike other tragic mass shootings with high death tolls in the recent past, though, it didn't fade from the headlines in the weeks afterward.

Floods, hurricanes, droughts, heat waves, and other natural disasters already come with high death tolls as it is.

Although the Christians have a MUCH higher death toll.

A review by The New York Times of daily mortality data from Puerto Rico's vital statistics bureau indicates a significantly higher death toll after Hurricane Maria than the government there has acknowledged.

Lower cost and higher profits also means higher death tolls.

Disaster experts have been warning that the world, because of the fast - rising density of human populations, needs to work now to avoid high death tolls in inevitable natural disasters.

While Maine doesn't have an incredibly high death toll related to fires, the total dollar loss is large for the area:

Actually, the highest death toll of ANYTHING in recorded history to afflict mankind.

Disaster experts warn that the longer Puerto Rico goes without power, the higher the death toll will climb.

Given the instability of frontier life and the high death toll, it's not a completely implausible scenario.

The Netherlands had the highest death toll from the disaster with 193 victims coming from the country.

«Haiti's population is about half that of New York City's metro area, yet even a glancing blow from Sandy carried a higher death toll in the Caribbean nation than did the direct hit on the Big Apple,» Kenny wrote.

Former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar has expressed concern on the high death toll so far recorded this year...

In this outbreak, most of the people infected are over 60 or have weakened immune systems, and that may be the reason for the high death toll, Dickson said.

These giant waves, caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and underwater landslides, are some of the deadliest natural disasters known; the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed over 230,000 people, a higher death toll than any fire or hurricane.

Liberia, where the cases are continuing to increase exponentially, has the most formidable Ebola obstacles and highest death toll.

Since many ecosystems and cities are not adapted to this, prolonged hot periods can result in a high death toll, forest fires, and dramatic harvest losses.

It could also work for other rapidly emerging diseases with a high death toll and limited treatment options such as SARS or viral haemorrhagic fevers that might be used as bioweapons, adds Menon.

Thus the virulence of a disease transmitted by the human flea should markedly increase, producing a more rapid course of illness and a higher death toll.

The event with the highest death toll to date is the Great Floods of 1931 in China with a mean estimate around 2.5 million deaths.

That is a higher death toll than any other outbreak since the virus first infected humans in Africa in 1976.

Big donors, for their part, prefer to work on diseases with a higher death toll or believe that reaching enough dogs is too complicated.

Historians claim that the common practice of locking the doors to the stairwells and exits, ostensibly to prevent employees from sneaking goods out of the factory, contributed to the high death toll.

Vaughan, one of five area veterinarians treating injured dogs, was amazed by the damage and high death toll.

Professor Arculus said the ability to predict eruptions had improved dramatically and it was hoped the high death toll of 1963 would not occur again.

A U.S. citizen was among 44 people killed during Holy Week this year in Costa Rica — the highest death toll for the holiday in a decade, the...

I remember the high death toll in the European heatwave of 2003 was more attributed to the high night temps that did not give people a chance to recuperate from the higher day temps.

Srinidhi added «Compared to 2010, heat wave conditions in 2015 so far have been of a shorter duration, yet with a higher death toll.

The high death toll caused by this hurricane was due to lack of prepareness.

The area currently has a high death toll which is caused largely by very preventable sanitation - related diseases.

Some 344 people had died in prisons in England and Wales, the highest death toll since current recording practices began in 1978.

That is a higher death toll for opioid overdoses than that of any other... Read More