Sentence examples for bite risk from inspiring English sources

As recently as 2012, a report commissioned by the WA government rejected the use of drum lines as an effective option to reduce shark bite risk, so the deployment of these lines now seems to be a huge step backwards in shark conservation.

A contributing factor to the lack of Zika virus cases among U.S. participants may have been the fact that because the Olympics took place during Brazil's winter, mosquito bite risk was lower than it had been at the height of the Zika epidemic.

This study predicts high malaria vectors bite risk with torn nets in areas of permanent vector breeding sites.

Despite the cavers' education level and their familiarity with bats, 14% of the cavers did not consider a bat bite risk for rabies.

Although odours may be important in attracting tsetse flies to individual hosts, they may be a less important determinant of biting risk when animals of all sizes, ages and sexes are aggregated in a herd or in a kraal.

At the initial meeting, Lewis decided that he could now confirm the bite without risk of cancellation.

Even if sanctions do bite, they risk uniting the Iranian people around a regime many of them have come to despise since a stolen election in June and the violent crackdown that followed.

Fifteen percent of respondents did not consider a bat bite a risk for acquiring rabies; only 20% had received preexposure prophylaxis against the disease.

Given the general public's assumed education level and overall lack of familiarity with bats, the percentage of the public who do not consider a bat bite a risk for rabies is probably higher than (or closer to) 26%, than 14%.

Certain practices, however, such as early removal of attached ticks from skin, use of repellents, and landscape modifications near human dwellings can reduce tick bites and risk of infection.

Owners walking dogs will be required to carry licenses and of proof of rabies vaccinations, and the Health Department may rescind the policy if there is an increase in preventable dog bites or risk of rabies.