A wave of deaths would be a political, moral, and foreign-policy disaster, with the seriousness not necessarily in that order.
Federal health officials are trying to shift supplies of the seasonal flu vaccine away from chain pharmacies and supermarkets to nursing homes, hoping to counter a shortage that threatens to cause a wave of deaths this winter among the nation's most vulnerable population.
Officers suspect it could be the source of drug batches behind a wave of deaths in the north of England over the last three months.
None was more innocent than Jacques Barrot, who, in 2005, helped trigger a wave of death when he entered France's annual pig squealing contest at the Pyrenean village of Trie-sur-Baïse Trie-sur-Baïse Trie-sur-Baïse
When you experience a wave of death like that it's impossible not to think deeply about your own mortality.
DAKAR, Senegal — A toxic chemical mixed into a teething medicine for babies has killed at least 84 children in Nigeria, health officials there said Friday, more than tripling the toll in a wave of infant deaths that began in late November.
As a wave of opioid deaths rolls over Canada, fuelled by the surge of fentanyl, a drug 50 times more powerful than heroin, this tight-knit, impoverished neighbourhood is among the hardest hit.
By Kitty Logan MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan, 30 November 2005 – The threat of a wave of additional deaths among quake survivors in northern Pakistan is becoming more acute with each passing day.
The 6-to-3 decision was a dramatic turnaround for a court that capitulated 13 years ago to a wave of pro-death-penalty sentiment and found no reason to bar the execution of the mentally retarded.
Among Fz3 −/− LMCL neurons, a wave of cell death begins at E11.5, well before LMCL axons have reached their final muscle targets, and 2 days before the normal wave of motor neuron cell death (Kablar and Rudnicki, 1999; Oppenheim et al., 2000).
"But if we don't act soon enough, there will be a second wave of deaths," caused by a lack of clean water, food shortages and diseases transmitted by water or animals.
