Sentences with phrase «numbers of human cases»

During this wave, the number of human cases is already higher than during the last two waves in 2014 - 15 and 2015 - 16.

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This is a guest post by Daniel Davies, a sociology expert who prepares case studies of human behavior for a number of magazines.
Duddington also provides discussion of the issue of conscience in contemporary society, citing a number of high - proile cases in which the state has intervened on issues of religious conscience and human rights.
He decreed that the case brought by researchers Drs James Sherley and Theresa Deisher, along with a number of Christian groups including the Christian Medical Association, should be heard; and ordered an injunction temporarily blocking federal funding allocated for human - embryonic - stem - cell research.
Because of the enormous number of physical variables on which it depends, and even more the growing predominance of the psychic (individual choice) over the purely statistical, it seems to be decidedly the case that human evolution goes beyond the bounds of exact calculation.
In the case of Uganda, legislators supported an infringement on human rights because it was popular: 96 % of Ugandans disapprove of homosexuality and this includes a number of influential religious lobby groups.
While there is grain of truth in a number of these accounts, contemporary research, and neuroscientific insights in particular, adequately demonstrates that both of these extremes distort what is in fact the case, and that both share a common mistake: underestimating the significance of the neurochemical underpinnings of human nature.
«Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome has sent this aspect of the case to the African Court on Human and Peoples» Right in Arusha Tanzania by invoking Article 40 read together with Article 75 of the 1992 constitution of The Republic of Ghana under case number Ref: AfCHPR / Reg.
The European Court of Human Rights has also attracted controversy recently with concerns increasing about the number of national court decisions that are overturned by the ECtHR and the huge backlog of cases waiting to be heard.
Mr Woyome who claims his human rights has been abused and was occasioned by the Review Decision of the Supreme Court of Ghana has sent this aspect of the case to the African Court on Human and Peoples» Right in Arusha Tanzania by invoking article 40 read together with article 75 of the 1992 constitution of The Republic of Ghana under case number Ref: AfCHPR /human rights has been abused and was occasioned by the Review Decision of the Supreme Court of Ghana has sent this aspect of the case to the African Court on Human and Peoples» Right in Arusha Tanzania by invoking article 40 read together with article 75 of the 1992 constitution of The Republic of Ghana under case number Ref: AfCHPR /Human and Peoples» Right in Arusha Tanzania by invoking article 40 read together with article 75 of the 1992 constitution of The Republic of Ghana under case number Ref: AfCHPR / Reg.
Brazil has been battling an unusually high number of yellow fever cases since December 2016, with at least 326 confirmed cases, including 220 deaths, and hundreds of additional cases under investigation — making it Brazil's worst yellow fever outbreak among humans in decades according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
There are a relatively limited number of documented cases of zoonotic [human - communicable] swine influenza in the literature.
A growing number of examples show that humans not only contribute to the extinction of species but also drive evolution, and in some cases the emergence of entirely new species.
This study was supported by Norma C. and Albert I. Geller via the Gynecological Cancer Translation Research Program at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, and grants from The Mary Kay Foundation (to A.D. and R.X.), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.Of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.of the National Institutes of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.).
«But this was not always the case,» explains Professor Dr. Madelaine Böhme, director of the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) at the University of Tübingen, who continues, «Our most recent study shows that the number of amphibian and reptile species used to be much higher in the course of geological history.»
«It is likely in the case of the red wolf and the Great Lakes [eastern] wolf that mixture with coyotes was caused by human actions, wolf control, and habitat destruction, which allowed coyote numbers to increase.
The BRS virus is equivalent to the human RS virus and causes most of the cases of serious pneumonia that lead to fatalities in calves and to epidemics which can spread to a large number of farms in the same area.
The existence of cancer stem cells has already been reported in a number of human cancers, explains Professor Jacobsen, but previous findings have remained controversial since the lab tests used to establish the identity of cancer stem cells have been shown to be unreliable and, in any case, do not reflect the «real situation» in an intact tumour in a patient.
«Thousands of people are involved in handling dead animals in Britain, and unbelievable numbers of animals are lying around, yet we have only one human case,» says Martin Hugh - Jones, a veterinary epidemiologist at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
Dr Lal said more collaboration could help reduce the number of cases of human parasitic infection (cryptosporidiosis) primarily spread through water in extreme weather events or due to gradual climate change.
The World Health Organization has categorized the bacteria responsible for plague, Yersinia pestis, as a re-emerging pathogen because of the rising number of human plague cases globally.
After doctors found a number of HAT cases in two villages there, French and Cameroon scientists visited the villages, sampling thousands of humans but also taking blood samples from pigs, goats, crocodiles, antelopes, and primates, which they tested for Trypanosoma DNA.
The number of reported human cases in Argentina is rising rapidly, and now stands at 1391, with 22 deaths.
«In the case of humans, sex - and age - connected risk can be reduced in a number of ways, including immunization, repellents, altering work and non-work habits and modifying the environment of the most vulnerable,» Foster said.
â $ œWe canâ $ ™ t be that hard on Penfield, because the number of cases where he was able to study head movement was quite limited, and studying head motion as he did, by applying an electrode directly to the brain, creates some challenges, â $ says lead author Buz Jinnah, MD, professor of neurology, human genetics and pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine.
«Composed of roughly 100 billion neurons... the human brain is so complex that scientists have not yet found a way to record the activity of more than a small number of neurons at once, an in most cases that is done invasively with physical probes.»
Beyond the medical risks to the potential child, a number of long - standing ethical concerns exist regarding the possible practice of germline gene transfer in both human and nonhuman cases.
Applying colloidal silver to human subjects has been done in a large number of cases with astonishingly successful results... it has the advantage of being rapidly fatal to microbes without toxic action on its host.
«for every human cell that is intrinsic to our body, there are about 10 resident microbes — including commensals (generally harmless freeloaders) and mutualists (favor traders) and, in only a tiny number of cases, pathogens.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted a 28 percent increase in the U.S. human incidence rate between 2005 — 2013,5 with 30,000 cases reported annually6 while the number of actual cases is projected at 288,000.7
Foster families provide temporary animal housing for a number of reasons: some animals need extra attention because they are very young; others need to learn human interaction skills; and, in some cases, we are simply overflowing at our facility.
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Not only do all large CBEs fit the dictionary of puppy mill, but a study published in the Journal of Applied Animal Behaviour Science found that «Common to virtually all CBEs are the following: large numbers of dogs; maximally efficient use of space by housing dogs in or near the minimum space permitted by law; housing breeding dogs for their entire reproductive lives — in most cases, years — in their cages or runs; dogs rarely if ever permitted out of their primary enclosures for exercise or play; absence of toys or other forms of enrichment; minimal to no positive human interaction or companionship; and minimal to no health care.»
And as a study in the Journal of Applied Animal Behaviour Science found, «Common to virtually all CBEs are the following: large numbers of dogs; maximally efficient use of space by housing dogs in or near the minimum space permitted by law; housing breeding dogs for their entire reproductive lives — in most cases, years — in their cages or runs; dogs rarely if ever permitted out of their primary enclosures for exercise or play; absence of toys or other forms of enrichment; minimal to no positive human interaction or companionship; and minimal to no health care.»
We have seen an increase in the number of bite cases and pet and human death by dogs.
Children will understand the deep connection that humans and animals share, and explore a number of case studies that illustrate the many ways that animals improve our health and wellbeing.
The prognosis for cases of aggression to humans will vary depending on a number of considerations, including how old your cat was when it first happened, how long you have tolerated bouts of aggression and also the intensity of the aggression and subsequent injuries.
«Alex Epstein's book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels documents the rapidly shrinking number of human beings killed by storms, floods and other climate events thanks largely to ever - growing industry, fueled mainly by oil, natural gas and coal,» says Stossel.
The report furthermore provides lessons learned from the case studies for sustainable development of CRFS and offers a large number of strategies and tools that can be applied by city regions around the world, including the promotion of (peri) urban agriculture, preservation of agricultural land areas and watersheds through land use planning and zoning, development of food distribution and social protection programmes for vulnerable groups, support for short supply chains and local procurement of food, and promotion of food waste prevention, reduction and management, as well as the recovery and redistribution of safe and nutritious food for human consumption.
Unable To Assist: Because the current provisions of the Act allow only for investigation of discrimination on the basis of physical handicap in employment matters, the Canadian Human Rights Commission has been unable to assist in a number of cases of discrimination.
For human rights lawyers, to be able to focus more time on their tactical approach in an increased number of cases may mean not just more wins, but furthering the push towards democracy and constitutional governance.
More recently, Neil has acted exclusively for government departments and agencies in work of this nature and has been involved in some of the most - high profile such cases including the Alexander Litvinenko inquest / inquiry, the Saudi arms trade litigation and a number of applications to European Court of Human Rights concerned with the bulk interception of communications and communications data.
Neil is currently instructed in a number of cases before the European Court of Human Rights including AL v United Kingdom (female genital mutilation in Nigeria), Bureau of Investigative Journalism v United Kingdom (bulk interception of communications; protection of journalistic sources), and Nait - Liman v Switzerland (universal jurisdiction for acts of torture; state immunity).
The number of reported cases where businesses used the Human Rights Act to bolster their argument rose by 15 % last year, from 39 cases in 2011 to 45 cases in 2012, according to figures provided by Sweet & Maxwell.
In his essay, Cameron argues that while the Council of Europe standards in this domain may be too vague to provide meaningful safeguards, given the number of actors operating within a fragmented and often out - dated regulatory framework, stemming from the Council of Europe and the EU, the instruments adopted by the Council of Europe and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights still play a fundamental role in this domain.
Peter has appeared and advised in a number of human rights cases, particularly, but not exclusively, in the indirect tax field.
A number of cases also addressed when a matter of discrimination should be addressed before a discipline tribunal, a review or appeal body, or a human rights tribunal.
The number of recent awards demonstrates an increasing trend of such awards and Ontario courts are prepared to award human rights damages in appropriate cases.
However, legislative developments and recent decisions, including Silvera v. Olympia Jewelry Corporation, 2015 ONSC 3760, confirm the authority and the increasing number of cases in which Ontario courts award human rights damages.
In February 2017, the Ohio Supreme Court — through the leadership of the Children and Families Section and its Advisory Committee on Children and Families — released Juvenile Human Trafficking, Ohio Laws & Safe Harbor Response to focus attention on the number of children who are becoming systems - involved due to trafficking, and Juvenile Court Trauma - Informed Practices to appropriately identify and manage juvenile human trafficking cHuman Trafficking, Ohio Laws & Safe Harbor Response to focus attention on the number of children who are becoming systems - involved due to trafficking, and Juvenile Court Trauma - Informed Practices to appropriately identify and manage juvenile human trafficking chuman trafficking cases.
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