Sentences with phrase «high risk areas for»

Renovation and construction both at home and in schools also poses high risk areas for exposure.

This means there are high risk areas for any tourist to visit.

The South of England and Scottish Highlands have been named as high risk areas for Lyme disease, but infection can occur in many parts of the UK

Our model quantifies that variation in risk and can help officials prioritize high risk areas for monitoring and intervention resources.»

And plaintiff personal injury has historically been the number one riskiest area, the highest risk area for a carrier to insure.

For example, if you live in a high risk area for thefts and accidents, or if you are known to have a record of traffic violations, you will pay more for moped insurance than if you live in a small town and have a clean driving record.

Covington is one of the highest risk areas for tornadoes in Kentucky, with an average of two major tornadoes each year.

La Grange is a high risk area for tornadoes, with an average of two ripping through the city each year.

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Taking into account past patterns of drought and water use, the Columbia study reveals that several major metro areas, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, are at high risk for water scarcity, along with the Great Plains agricultural belt extending from North and South Dakota down to North Texas.

According to a 2015 report by CoreLogic, in the western U.S. alone there are now more than 897,000 residential properties in areas that are at high or very high risk for wildfires.

«It's still an area that is, I think, too high - risk for the growth folks.

If you're not in a designated high - risk area, you're eligible for Preferred Risk Policy (PRP) rates, says Keith Baker, Mortgage Banking Program coordinator and faculty at North Lake Collrisk area, you're eligible for Preferred Risk Policy (PRP) rates, says Keith Baker, Mortgage Banking Program coordinator and faculty at North Lake CollRisk Policy (PRP) rates, says Keith Baker, Mortgage Banking Program coordinator and faculty at North Lake College.

If the price action pauses for a day or two in the $ 25.30 to $ 26.00 area, we might be able to grab a low - risk entry point on a breakout above a two or three - day high, which would also put the price back above the 200 - day MA.

In his free time, Brent teaches for - profit, social entrepreneurship to low - income, at - risk high school students in the Los Angeles & Bay Areas.

The Yellow Fever vaccine is one of the recommended travel vaccinations for babies over nine - months - old if visiting high - risk destinations, and may be considered for infants from 6 to 8 months of age if traveling to areas where risk of Yellow Fever is the highest.

The CDC states that the yellow fever vaccine should be avoided if you are breastfeeding, but «when nursing mothers can not avoid or postpone travel to areas endemic for yellow fever in which risk for acquisition is high, these women should be vaccinated.»

For the legs, this can cause chaffing in an area that already carries a consistently high risk of that issue without the addition of further inflation.

Cobedding of twins and other infants of multiple gestation is a frequent practice, both in the hospital setting and at home.174 However, the benefits of cobedding twins and higher - order multiples have not been established.175, — , 177 Twins and higher - order multiples are often born prematurely and with low birth weight, so they are at increased risk of SIDS.101, 102 Furthermore, there is increased potential for overheating and rebreathing while cobedding, and size discordance might increase the risk of accidental suffocation.176 Most cobedded twins are placed on their sides rather than supine.174 Finally, cobedding of twins and higher - order multiples in the hospital setting might encourage parents to continue this practice at home.176 Because the evidence for the benefits of cobedding twins and higher - order multiples is not compelling and because of the increased risk of SIDS and suffocation, the AAP believes that it is prudent to provide separate sleep areas for these infants to decrease the risk of SIDS and accidental suffocation.

FSB National Chairman meets businesses in York devastated by the latest flooding and calls for better insurance cover Small firms need insurance protection against flooding as the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) raises concerns that many businesses in high - risk flood areas can not get adequate insurance cover and will have to pay out themselves to repair damage.

Also at 10 a.m., Rep. Dan Donovan, the House Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications, will chair a Congressional field hearing at the College of Staten Island titled Securing our Communities: Federal Support to High - Risk Urban Areas, Center for the Arts, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Building 1P.

These include: · Restricting trade hours of on - licence venues to limit the availability of alcohol in the early hours of the morning · Enhancing community involvement, better facilitating the engagement of local residents with licensing systems · Adding / prioritising public health and / or harm minimisation objectives in alcohol legislation · Restricting the sales of high risk products in areas of concern; and · Deprioritising government support for industry voluntary schemes in place of policies supported by evidence.

It also comes alongside a doubling of funding for aviation security, with more checks to be conducted on airports in high - risk areas like North Africa and the Middle East.

Operators of ships not remaining within that area (other than for reasons purely related to safety of life at sea, weather, navigational safety or military instructions) should allow any of their seafarers to choose not to proceed to the high - risk zone by allowing any such seafarers to leave the ship (or not to join it) at a preceding port.

While there are no safe levels of lead exposure, children living in high risk areas of Utica with its aged and often deteriorating housing stock are in greater danger of lead poisoning and its long - term effects, according to Cathe Bullwinkle, Quality Improvement Coordinator for the Oneida County Health Department.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. today announced a window replacement project that will partner the county's Lead Primary Prevention Pilot Program and Utica - based GroWest, Inc., targeting designated areas of Cornhill and West Utica that are at «high risk» for lead poisoning.

The New York State Health Department released an online map of areas in the Bronx that are at high risk for cancer.

For our part, the U.S. government has mandated that U.S. - flagged merchant vessels transiting the high risk area conduct a risk assessment with specific consideration given to supplementing onboard security with armed personnel.

Additionally, the County's LPP conducts free home inspections in designated areas of Cornhill and West Utica for units with children under 6 - years of age to identify those at high risk.

The other organizations will use the funding to put naloxone in high risk areas such as gas stations and restaurants, as well as for student recovery programs.

The authors searched for genetic mutations that might explain the disproportionately high risk of SUDEP in people with poorly controlled focal epilepsy, which, by definition stems from a specific area of the brain.

«When used in conjunction with forecasted data, the model predictions could be useful for focusing both surveillance efforts, and the pre-positioning of material and equipment in areas and periods of particularly high risk.

The model confirmed and quantified that, even in areas with high transmission potential for yellow fever, the risk varies throughout the year.

The risk for children of mothers living in a high traffic air pollution area for NO2 during their second trimester was 30 % higher than those from less polluted areas.

«Today, not only are more people in harm's way than there were 50 years ago, but building in flood plains, earthquake zones and other high - risk areas has increased the likelihood that a routine natural hazard will become a major catastrophe,» warns a 2015 report from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), which maintains an international disaster database.

U.V.A. began testing all high - risk patients for MRSA infection and colonization; those who tested positive were placed in contact - isolation areas with warning signs on their doors alerting health care workers of the patients» contagious status and instructing them to wash their hands after touching them.

For example, coastal areas or areas in the flood plain of a river are more likely to experience a natural disaster, whereas areas at higher elevation are at lower risk.

«Based on Australia's climate the high risk seasons for Brisbane and Sydney are spring and early summer, so it is therefore necessary to strengthen current monitoring systems on attempted suicide especially in areas with high unemployment rates.

Using next - generation sequencing (NGS) technology, researchers were able to pinpoint specific areas of a person's DNA to more effectively diagnose genetic forms of high - cholesterol, which markedly increase risk for heart attack and stroke.

Those areas not only harbor the highest numbers of species, they also happen to suffer very high rates of habitat destruction - a sort of double - whammy that puts many species at risk for extinction.

Michele Carbone, senior author on the study, states «further research is needed, including epidemiological, geological, mineralogical and health - based personal exposure studies in order to characterize the residential and occupational history of the malignant mesothelioma cases we studied, to highlight the highest risk areas within Clark and Nye counties, to identify the type of fibrous minerals and their precise distribution throughout Nevada, and to identify the activities responsible for the release of fibers in the air, which may be the cause of some of the malignant mesothelioma in this region.»

The team found that just 11 of these genes could be used to reliably gauge exposure during pregnancy, which could lead to a test for screening in high - risk areas.

Although heterosexual men seem to be at higher risk for HPV - positive oropharyngeal cancers (likely, researchers posit, because the virus tends to infect — and persist in — the genital area of female partners), men who have sex with men face an increased risk for HPV anal cancer.

The effects of the cyanobacterial blooms include a higher cost for cities and local governments to treat their drinking water, as well as risk to swimmers in high concentration areas, and a nuisance to boaters when blooms form.

This is because there is a higher risk of human interaction and persecution in areas where there are more farms, a greater pressure on natural resources through increased timber extraction and livestock grazing, and even competition for food from domestic animals kept as pets.»

High - risk regions of the world include areas of Africa and Central and South America, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

He imagines that the collaboration will focus on areas that industry is currently exiting owing to their high risk — for example Alzheimer's disease, for which many promising drugs have failed in clinical trials.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

Other ideas for getting a better handle on the true burden of U.S. - acquired Chagas cases include doing broad blood surveys of all people — not just blood donors — living in suspected high - risk areas and identifying what behaviors are associated with infection.

«Children and adolescents who live in homeless shelters, are victims of abuse or neglect or live in urban or rural areas where access to high - quality food is difficult, are thought to be at increased risk for undernutrition.»

For high - risk areas such as emergency departments, some medical centers have installed metal detectors.