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As human populations crowd new parts of the planet and come into contact with new animal habitats, new infectious diseases spread from animals to humans.
With greater trade and travel to the region, outbreaks are likely to spread before international containment can coalesce.
Promising to spread the riches that they have made for themselves, they exploit the fantasies of those of us who have little and want more.
It is noteworthy that China’s chaotic effort to vaccinate 14 billion chickens has been compromised by counterfeit vaccines and the absence of protective gear for vaccination teams, which might actually spread disease by carrying fecal material on their shoes from one farm to another.
But the situation in Turkey is what the outbreak of a human to human pandemic could look like at its earliest stages: the rapid spread of confirmed cases (and deaths) from an initial site to nearby villages and cities.
We would expect to see a large number of illnesses among both employees and patients in hospitals where the victims are treated, and soon someone (perhaps even a carrier who is not ill) would spread it to Ankara, Istanbul, Tbilisi, Damascus, Baghdad, and beyond.
As Afghan President Hamid Karzai is said by his critics to be on the verge of casting his lot with Pakistan and the Taliban, the Pentagon has signaled its fear that the war may spread beyond the Pashtun heartland to the largely Tajik and Uzbek areas in the north of the country.
QUESTION: The spread between German treasury bonds and Italian treasury bonds has decreased despite the current financial difficulty.
For most of the 1990s, the world economy did remarkably well, despite large-scale financial crises, the spread of AIDS in stagnating Africa, and the problems of transition economies.
Moreover, two decades after the Berlin Wall fell, the spread of democracy has stalled.
Twenty years after communism’s fall, authoritarian capitalism has emerged as the leading challenger to the spread of democratic values.
But the fear that is most consuming Abbas and Fatah is that the conflict with Hamas might spread to the West Bank.
We found that roughly two-thirds of the lives saved during this period were in Africa, while around one-fifth were in China and India, and the remainder were spread around the rest of the developing world.
Ambiguity is thus a political strategy that encourages the spread of implicit, informal rules of behavior, thereby shifting accountability onto the lowest ranking, least powerful, and most expendable soldiers.
When Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991, about 15 million tons of sulfur dioxide was pumped into the stratosphere, reacting with water to form a hazy layer that spread around the globe.
Journalism’s other task is to reflect a society back to itself – to spread an accurate picture of its current situation, to share information about the activities of private citizens and businesses as they build civil society, and to encourage citizens to become active in improving their own lives and developing their communities.
As the world learned with the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) – which first appeared in China in 2002 but was not reported by Chinese officials until it spread to four other nations – globally shared health risks demand absolute global transparency.
There is strong evidence from a variety of sources that forms of the bird flu virus circulating in Indonesia are more virulent than those elsewhere and that in a few cases they may have spread directly from one person to another.
Indeed, it also grossly neglected to deal with an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Miyazaki Prefecture, allowing the disease to spread out of control.
Enter John Snow, a pioneering physician who had intuited that cholera was spread not through the air, as conventional wisdom held, but through water.
The epidemic spread most dramatically in areas where basic infrastructure and surveillance systems had broken down.
Worryingly, as the latest paper from my Review on Antimicrobial Resistance warns, there is no globally coordinated system of surveillance to monitor the emergence and spread of superbugs around the world.
Humans have been altering animals and plants through selective breeding for millennia; but, because these changes typically reduce the capacity for survival and reproduction in the wild, they do not spread to wild populations.
Alterations accomplished using CRISPR, which enables scientists to edit a cell’s DNA with unprecedented precision, are different in one crucial respect: The process can result in “gene drive,” a naturally occurring feature of some genes that enables them to spread through a population over generations, even if they do not help survival (and thus reproduction).
Though DNA-level changes spread by one gene drive can be overwritten by another gene drive – an important safeguard against unwanted side effects and misuse – the ecological impacts would not be so easy to reverse.
Scientists blame the rapid spread of the disease – which suffocates trees by coating their leaves – on climate change.
Because globalization will spread technical capabilities, and information technology will allow broader participation in global communications, American preponderance will become less dominant later this century.
Two Models for EuropeMUNICH – Interest rates for public debt within the eurozone have spread once again, just as they did before the introduction of the euro.
In response, a wave of protests spread to universities around the country, often supported by young workers.
Of course, the world would be safer if Iran did not have nuclear weapons, not because it is a “rogue” state, but because any spread of nuclear weapons is likely to make the world more dangerous.
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