Sentences with phrase «significant public health threat»

(Granted, neither seems to have anything new to bring to the conversation if their recent attempts — Jessup in a 2012 paper describing free - roaming cats as «a significant public health threat,» and Barrows in his contribution to the 2012 book Nature Wars — are any indication.

A recently published paper describing free - roaming cats as «a significant public health threat» fails to deliver convincing evidence.

Because coasts are densely populated, the amount of sewage reaching seas and oceans is of particular concern because some substances it contains can harm ecosystems and pose a significant public health threat.

Zika remains a significant public health threat in affected countries and regions, highlighting the need for continued surveillance and research on the virus.

But, Myers says, «the bottom line is, we know that rising CO2 reduces the concentration of critical nutrients around the world,» adding that these kinds of nutritional deficiencies are already significant public health threats, and will only worsen as CO2 levels go up.

Not exact matches

The state is unveiling a new $ 12.5 million mitigation plan for a former factory Superfund site in West Islip that is once again considered a «significant threat to the public health or environment» after additional contaminants were discovered there last year.

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has defined DURC as «life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national security».

In a 2013 report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called ESBLs a «serious concern» and a significant threat to public health.

Officials stressed that there is no significant health threat to the general public and said that the patient with MERS,...

This ethical issue should be at the heart of our current medical practice, and our leaders should be made aware that withholding these data poses a significant threat to public health.

I am truly concerned about the significant threat that the anti-vaccination movement poses to public health.

«President Obama understands that climate change poses a significant threat to our environment, to public health, and to our economy,» Podesta said.

The public health community has increasingly acknowledged that climate change poses a significant and complex threat to human health, and has made strides toward improving understanding of the links between the changing physical environment and human health concerns.

While the public health community has made strides toward understanding the significant and complex threat to human health posed by climate change, a strategic federal program of research and decision support is not yet in evidence.

They may have to, as the Palm Beach Post indicates a «significant threat exists to the public's health» posed by the drought.

Partly, because the mindset of state legislators at that time was that there should be no additional licensing unless it could be demonstrated empirically that the absence of licensure was posing a significant threat to the health and safety of the public.