Sentences with phrase «of rampant disease»

First, on the negative side, it is quite likely that there will be some sort of rampant disease, catastrophe, or war which will serve as the final catalyst for the future changes.

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This is a group of people who refuse to inoculate their children against infectious diseases that ran rampant before vaccines were introduced, putting not only their own children at risk but also others who are too young or too ill to be vaccinated.

We become witnesses to the extremity of their daily suffering — the repeated cycles of malnutrition, rampant disease due to poor hygienic conditions, and lower survival rates due to female infanticide, anemia and maternal mortality.

In our post-Nietzschean age of AIDS and rampant venereal disease, the remark now carries with it a certain unintentional irony, but one finishes reading Bloom's book not entirely sure why erotic relations nowadays are so dreary: Is it because of the relentless reductionism of Freud and Kinsey or because, as Nietzsche held, Eros and Institution will always be at war — and Christianity, with its rigorous stress on monogamy, now symbolizes for modern society the institution of marriage par excellence?

The programme opened with inappropriate jokes about rampant sexual behaviour, with young girls ironically describing how they had been so «out of it» that they couldn't remember who had given them their sexual diseases.

Because of the RCC's stance on contraception there are hundreds of thousands of infants dying each day from malnutrition and rampant disease..

We are now paying the price of that blind and irresponsible folly — in a drug war that we are not winning, in burgeoning crime that has made city neighborhoods uninhabitable, in teenage pregnancies and «children having children,» in rampant abortions, swelling welfare roles, sexually transmitted diseases, self - indulgent neglect of community good, and countless ruined lives.

They depicted a Britain that was being driven to the brink of destruction by hordes of disease - ridden immigrants, meddling Europeans, rampant criminals and useless bureaucrats.

Where such diseases are rampant, Parker says, «if you don't have something like the appendix to harbor safe bacteria, you have less of a survival advantage.»

Eighth, the Global Fund should offer roughly $ 400 million a year for comprehensive control of several tropical diseases (mainly worm infections), which occur in virtually the same regions where malaria is rampant.

Among the questions addressed by the Cell paper that have the potential to shape policy was whether «porous borders» contributed to the rampant spread of the disease.

Autoimmune diseases are rampant in developed countries like the United States and can affect any area of the body.

Consider for one minute the possibility that excess carbohydrates, not excess fat (which the USDA only recommends 65 grams of a day) cause problems like obesity, diabetes and heart disease, and even if Americans are only following half of the advice set forth by the USDA, and its easy to see why these diseases are rampant.

Fear of Alzheimer's disease is rampant.

One of these researchers was Dr. Weston Price who noted in his studies of isolated, so - called «primitive» peoples that when white flour and other devitalized foods were introduced into these communities, rampant tooth decay and disease of every sort soon followed.

Sugar addiction is universally rampant and a leading cause of ill health and disease.

When your immune system shifts out of balance, inflammation can run rampant — causing a chronic, smoldering fire inside your body that contributes to disease and weight gain.

Cellular inflammation is the root cause driving the epidemic of chronic diseases and hormone conditions rampant today.

They also found conclusive explanations for the enormous swarms of insects, the disease rampant among the livestock, and the dangerous boils afflicting all life forms.

Dallas Buyers Club is a drama directed by Jean - Marc Vallee (The Young Victoria, C.R.A.Z.Y.), based on the true - life account of Ron Woodroof, a drug - peddling, Texas alcoholic and womanizer who contracted the HIV virus in 1986, in the middle of the AIDS scare and rampant homophobia surrounding the disease.

Nonetheless, I give Ms. Dixon credit for tackling the taboo subject of AIDS in a serious manner, a reminder that the disease continues to run rampant in the African - American community.

Heating and ventilation were nonexistent, disease ran rampant, and the established budgets didn't even begin to cover the actual cost of feeding and caring for the various populations of each facility.

HSI has uncovered appalling conditions where disease and mental distress are rampant, with many dogs showing obvious signs of sickness, depression, severe malnutrition and abnormal behavior.

Skin diseases are also rampant, with 1 of every 2 Goldens developing some type of skin condition, especially allergies, which cause itchy skin and often lead to bacterial skin infections (pyoderma).

You may be surprised to hear that heart disease runs rampant among canines, with a staggering 25 % of dogs over the age of seven suffering with some form of a heart condition.

Unsanitary conditions and lack of veterinary care can lead to rampant disease.

She was able to develop a successful treatment protocol for the ECE virus, when that disease was rampant in the ferret community, and saved the lives of many ferrets infected with the virus.

Dental disease is such a rampant problem, and is so easily prevented, that February of every year is designated as National Pet Dental Health Month.

Orthopedic diseases are rampant in Rottweilers: hip dysplasia (21 % affected), elbow dysplasia (39 % affected), osteochondritis, cruciate ligament rupture — all of which cause lameness and pain and can require expensive surgery.

While most of these dogs have recovered, this is an emergent disease, and officials are urging veterinarians and pet owners to team up to curb the spread before it becomes rampant.

I am too worried about him getting some kind of disease of virus because Parvo is so rampant this year.

Having large numbers of unvaccinated dogs and cats roaming around also leads to illness and disease running rampant.

There's just one way to win the game, but three to lose; suffer eight outbreaks and you've lost; if any one disease becomes too rampant on the board you lose, and if you run out of player cards you lose.

Around the world funding to help educate and fight against the disease is tailing off, a result of growing indifference from the public who feel detached from the disease, despite the fact that in areas of Africa AIDS is rampant and on the increase.

Roughly 80 percent of all antibiotics used in the U.S. are fed to farm animals in order to promote growth and prevent rampant disease from striking animals that are kept in filthy, stressful environments.

Secondly, if you look at the quality of life in China, the rampant industrial pollution, the widespread labor unrest, the corruption that allows poisoned milk products to enter the market, etc., then you must admit that China's «rise out poverty» is not such a wunderkind story — they may have some monetary wealth, but they are also suffering a great deal of pollution and associated diseases... and their dirty emissions cross the Pacific, and are noticeable in Washington and Oregon.

Take the case of hookworm, an insidious, debilitating disease that ravaged poor communities in the United States in the early 1900s, and is rampant today in the most impoverished corners of the world.

Outlawing the use of DDT condemned tens of millions to death and hundreds of millions to one of the most debilitating diseases still rampant in the less developed world.

I recently wrote that the search engine is now using curated results when people search on vaccine - preventable diseases, to prevent the rampant spread of misinformation.

Even today the disease of «tuneable parameters» is still rampant in climate models, although fairly well hidden and not much spoken of in polite society.

In pockets of the population where children remain unvaccinated, the disease can run rampant and gain entry into a larger percentage of the population.

Apart from awakening our latent fears of rampant infectious disease, what else does this outbreak tell us?

It was traditionally a disease of the urban slums and was rampant in Australia in the 19th century.

Houselogic also came up with a list of tree species to avoid, due to messy foliage, greedy root systems, rampant disease, and other factors.

At the prior site, disease was rampant because there was no way to dispose of goat and cattle carcasses properly.