Flock type was significantly associated with outbreak duration (winsorized data for singleton flocks; P<0.001), with purebred flocks more likely to experience longer epidemics than either commercial (hazard ratio, HR = 0.54) or mixed purebred and commercial flocks (HR = 0.59).
We contemporary crumblies are simply people who have lived long lives, survivors who have made it through a world of material hazards, epidemics, accidents and catastrophes.
In April, a Republican-backed resolution in Utah declared pornography a public health hazard and an epidemic that normalizes violence against women and children and makes men less likely to want to get married.
The Food Standards Agency said the levels of dioxins found across Britain from the fires set this spring to dispose of farm animals slaughtered in the food and mouth disease epidemic did not pose health hazards.
11, 12 An EWARN detects alerts or clusters and sudden changes in trends of events that could be a potential hazard to health through an epidemic intelligence 13, 14 process, which integrates both indicator- and event-based components.
As well as terrorism, the authorities have identified public disorder, crime and "non-malicious hazards" (anything from summer flooding to an epidemic of infectious disease) as threats to their smooth running.
Epidemic intelligence includes "all activities related to early identification of potential health hazards, their verification, assessment and investigation in order to recommend public health control measures"[ 6].
Many bodies were buried quickly for fear that they would start epidemics, despite repeated advice from the W.H.O. that dead bodies were not a health hazard.
Apart from natural hazards-induced disasters, Hong Kong has experienced public health emergencies, such as the SARS epidemic and avian influenza (Chan et al. 2015), which resulted in significant health and social impacts across the entire territory.
