Competition lawyers said such a concentration of cases involving one country was unusual, but not surprising given the economic climate.
"It is probably best interpreted as the analogue to the concentration of cases on Fridays and Saturdays in contemporary society," said Eisner.
The main concentration of cases of ash dieback – which has wiped out swaths of trees in the rest of Europe – are in mature ancient forests in East Anglia, along the coast where easterly winds arrive from Scandinavia.
"But recently, there is a concentration of cases which seem to be very political and which seem to use the court as a political tool to silence opposition voices".
The WHO's China representative, Hans Troedsson, expressed concern about the unusual concentration of cases in Anhui, and about the occurrence of pulmonary and neurological symptoms not typically seen with hand, foot and mouth disease.
From the distribution map of landslide dams in Fig. 4, at first glance, it is immediately possible to notice a higher concentration of cases in the Alps and the northern Apennines than in the Southern part of Italy.
The highest concentration of cases is in the relatively poor and hot Northeastern region, which includes the state of Rio Grande do Norte, where 31-year-old Oliveira lives.
The highest concentration of cases is in the relatively poor and hot Northeastern region, which includes the state of Rio Grande do Sul, where 31-year-old Oliveira lives.
Our present observations and the factorial analysis of malaria cases clusters in a fraction of the residences suggest that other factors, besides the distance to the mosquitoes' breeding sites and the number of residents in the house contribute to concentration of cases in some of the houses.
