Sentences with phrase «human health threats»

It's important that both of these serious human health threats be put into proper perspective.

To Swackhamer, an environmental health professor, water safety encompasses a wide range of human health threats.

Such modifications could be introduced, for example, in mosquito populations, to attack their ability to carry human health threats such as malaria and the Zika virus.

Although the human health threats are unknown, animal studies have found evidence of damage to neurological, immune and reproductive systems.

How Mercury Gets into Seafood Scientists have known how mercury from industrial pollution affects local freshwater ecosystems and poses a human health threat [see «Mapping Mercury»; SciAm, September 2005].

Over 80 percent of unwanted dogs are born in nations in which animals are not protected under the law and where rabies is a genuine human health threat.

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Researchers have long wondered whether that could pose a threat to human health.

The sponsor of a material threat medical countermeasure application that receives a priority review voucher under this section may transfer (including by sale) the entitlement to such voucher to a sponsor of a human drug for which an application under section 505 (b)(1) or section 351 (a) of the Public Health Service Act will be submitted after the date of the approval of the material threat medical countermeasure application.

The group discovered that the dump contained toxic materials that were contaminating the groundwater of Billerica and the Concord River, as well as creating other threats to human health.

4 - MEI is not a threat to human health.

This neoliberal agenda of deregulation and privatisation, currently promoted in almost every sphere of human activity — from food production to health and education — poses a serious threat to food sovereignty and the ability of food producers and consumers to define their own food systems and policies.

«Plastic waste poses an enormous threat to wildlife, is a danger to human health and costs millions to the UK economy.

Salmon and other fish farms also pose a major threat to human health.

Background: GE polluted the Housatonic River and surrounding lands over several decades with hundreds of tons of PCBs — toxic and persistent chemicals used in the manufacture of electrical transformers — which pose threats to human health and wildlife.

The medical community has long warned against overusing antibiotics in farm animals because of the potential threat to human health.

CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.

Diaz Sr. seemed to back off his threat yesterday to vote «no» on the next round of budget extenders, which are expected to include cuts to the mental health and hygiene and human services spending.

Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon, Chairwoman of the Health and Human Services Committee, hosted a discussion on June 16, 2016 with the County's Health Department to discuss the Zika virus and its threat to this region.

Federal regulators described PFOA as «a chemical or material that is characterized by a perceived, potential, or real threat to human health or the environment or by a lack of published health standards» in the March 2014 document.

The governor also said the state will sue the EPA under the federal Ocean Dumping Act, a 1972 law that limits or prevents dumping that could pose a threat to human health and welfare, the marine environment or local economies.

«Health Department officials confirm that the species of mosquito found to be infected with EEE generally feeds on birds, but prudence dictates we take every precaution to protect the public's health and safety when dealing with the potentially serious threat this disease poses to livestock and humans,» PicenteHealth Department officials confirm that the species of mosquito found to be infected with EEE generally feeds on birds, but prudence dictates we take every precaution to protect the public's health and safety when dealing with the potentially serious threat this disease poses to livestock and humans,» Picentehealth and safety when dealing with the potentially serious threat this disease poses to livestock and humans,» Picente said.

«The only way that this uncertainty and fear can be addressed is by speedily defining all potential sources of the contamination, the nature of the contamination, the threat the contamination poses to human health and how far it has spread.»

«If [Health and Human Services] does nothing, we can not continue to hold up these hospitals,» Cuomo told reporters and a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers in the Red Room in the Capitol, citing the example of the two Brooklyn hospitals whose deteriorating financial condition has led to threats of potential closure and in the case of Interfaith, more than a year of tumultuous bankruptcy proceedings.

Carpenter laid out five main threats to human health that are not fully addressed in the proposed regulations:

On July 6, the U.S. Department of Agriculture OK'd a small open - air trial of GM diamondback moths (Plutella xylostella), which the agency says do not pose a threat to human or environmental health.

Many people see heat as more of an annoyance than a threat, but climate change, extreme heat and human health are entwined.

Twelve different bacteria, most gram - negative (blue), pose the greatest threat to human health, according to the World Health Organization, because they resist multiple antibihealth, according to the World Health Organization, because they resist multiple antibiHealth Organization, because they resist multiple antibiotics.

For some strains of bird flu virus, notably the worrisome H5N1 variant, the genetic changes that could make human - to - human transmission a possibility and spark a pandemic are the markers of intense interest to those who track flu as a threat to human health.

Antibiotic resistance poses an «apocalyptic» threat to human health.

Damage to ecosystems and threats to human health and the lack of effective mitigation require new approaches to mining regulation.

«The routine use of antibiotics in food animals presents a serious and growing threat to human health because it creates new strains of dangerous antibiotic - resistant bacteria,» says Pew.

The U.S. departments of Health and Human Services, Defense, and Agriculture, and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) should continue investments at the national level and increase investments at the international level to improve capabilities to confront the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.

The good news: wolf parasites do not pose a threat to human health.

The chief flu scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO) today defended his agency against criticism that the H1N1 swine flu pandemic was «fake,» that its threat to human health was hyped, and that WHO's policies were influenced by vaccine manufacturers who benefited from the pandemic Health Organization (WHO) today defended his agency against criticism that the H1N1 swine flu pandemic was «fake,» that its threat to human health was hyped, and that WHO's policies were influenced by vaccine manufacturers who benefited from the pandemic health was hyped, and that WHO's policies were influenced by vaccine manufacturers who benefited from the pandemic virus.

Furthermore, they suggest that the public would be better off spending time and energy battling mosquitoes, which pose a more severe threat to human health than the spiders do because of their ability to transmit viruses such as Chikungunya and pathogens that cause diseases.

The specter of existential threats is raised to reflect the grave risks to human health and species extinction from warming beyond 5 ° C, which has not been experienced for at least the past 20 million years.

The existential threats could include species extinctions and major threats to human water and food supplies in addition to the health risks posed by exposing over 7 billion people worldwide to deadly heat.

Seafood disease Though these diseases do not pose a threat to human health, the warm - water bacterium Vibrio vulnificus does.

When we speak of threats to forest health, we tend to imply the impacts of humans.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a growing threat to both human and animal health and there has been mounting pressure on the livestock industry to reduce antibiotic use to tackle resistance.

Marine litter is a threat to the marine ecosystem, human health and economic activities.

The Centers for Disease Control considers MRSA a serious threat to human health.

Dr Liz Rylott, who co-lead the research at CNAP added: «Areas of land contaminated with explosives are a threat to human health and the environment.

We are now getting a real sense of how cholera is moving across the globe, and with that information we can inform improved control strategies as well as basic science to better understand how a simple bacterium continues to pose such a threat to human health.»

The ability of cancer cells to change position within body tissues through cell migration and invasion represents the biggest threat of cancer to human health.

The virus poses no health threat to humans, but it is highly lethal for pigs and infected herds must be culled.

This contamination poses a serious threat to the environment and human health.

Bacteriophages, or simply phages, are viruses that infect and replicate within bacteria, and they hold considerable potential for combatting antibiotic - resistance and other threats to human health.

The mosquitoes known as Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus transmit arboviruses that are increasing threats to human health in the Americas, particularly dengue, chikungunya, and Zika viruses.

Skov adds: «I fear that if we don't get antibiotic use in livestock under control, then new, more virulent strains of livestock - associated MRSA will emerge that pose a much greater threat to human health than what we are currently facing.»