As international markets settle down, as the global news media turn their fickle attention to other bogeymen, as Brexit Shock fades (everywhere but in the U.K. and some offices in Brussels), so does the acute concern that swept the world immediately after that stunning decision.
EU diplomats and officials said Merkel, who is keen to keep Britain in the EU, would drive the hardest of bargains amid acute concern that Cameron had plunged the EU into years of uncertainty when the paramount priority for the others is to recover from the euro crisis.
The acute concerns that led to such a punitive approach have eased since then, as cocaine use has dwindled and the worst fears for a generation of crack babies have proved unfounded.
There are also acute concerns that Cyprus is a haven for money laundering.
But while the economy remains a concern, the acute fear that gripped the nation over the winter has somewhat receded.
But for a growing number of investors, the more acute concern may be that other countries like Portugal, Spain and Ireland could be shut out of the debt markets at a time that they are desperate for cash.
Among the euro-zone countries Italy will remain the most acute concern, with a risk that its government debt, which accounts for a quarter of the euro zone's bonds, gets downgraded to "BBB-", just a sliver away from junk status, by Standard & Poor's, a ratings agency.
There is concern that an acute banking crisis in Italy, led by troubles at MPS but possibly other banks as well, could ignite European and global banking crises.
The results of this reanalysis provide strong evidence that children exposed to O3 under natural conditions experience decreases in FEV1 of the kind demonstrated in laboratory studies, and raise concern that other acute respiratory effects observed in those studies (e.g., pulmonary inflammation) may also occur in young people exposed to ambient O3.
While in resource-rich countries the above difference in mortality may almost entirely disappear as rescue therapies are applied to attenuate any potential adverse effect of fluid overload (ARDS, pulmonary edema, acute kidney injury), there is now concern that such therapy may not be as beneficial as previously believed.
However, neither IGRAs nor the TST can separate acute TB from LTBI, and there is concern that responses in IGRAs may decline with time after infection.
