Denunciations of Israel for what critics called a renewal of its aggressive and disproportionate attacks spread quickly on the second day of the aerial assaults.
A small number of severely infected patients or super-spreading patients appeared to play a disproportionate role in the spread of the disease to HCWs.
Singapore was one of the countries most affected by SARS and experienced a disproportionate impact of the spread of the disease in hospitals (2, 3 ).
In addition, sociodemographic characteristics (particularly low-income status) put some workers at disproportionate risk of contracting and spreading pandemic influenza because of their perceived inability to miss work.
Since unilateral spreading depression caused disproportionate increases in glycolytic compared with oxidative metabolism of glucose, a v differences across the cerebral cortex were assayed during bilateral spreading cortical depression (Cruz et al., 1999).
At the same time, many, perhaps even most, Twitter users have grown alienated by the disproportionate toxicity that a minority of users can spread, and in particular by the kind of pack harassment that is often directed at "controversial" figures, many of whom are visible minorities or women.
Yet isn't it worth considering the ethics of allowing a preventable, occasionally fatal, illness to spread throughout the population -- with a disproportionate impact on lower-income people?
And, just as depressingly, the report also shows how the country's literacy problems are spread throughout the age range, whereas other countries experience disproportionate problems with literacy among the elderly.
The type of social unrest recently witnessed in Greece may spread, because the downturn is likely to take a disproportionate toll on Europe's young people, who are seeking jobs at a time when hard-pressed European businesses will be able to offer them very few.
This debt is especially acute given that climate scientists predict the worst effects of climate change--drought, coastal flooding, the spread of airborne diseases like malaria--will ravage the developing world in disproportionate ways.
