"That was the most likely trigger, reactivating latent disease and facilitating the spread of disease," says Tang.
Global phenomena such as urbanization and international travel are key factors in facilitating the spread of dengue.
"Taking recreational drugs during sex can lead to a number of potentially harmful side-effects including facilitating the spread of common STIs and HIV, but also serious mental health problems such as anxiety, psychoses and suicidal tendencies.
If Singer follows through on his threat to go to court, it will not be the first time Google has faced legal action over inadvertently facilitating the spread of nude photos.
Backstory: Facebook has come under heavy criticism for favoring content and design that keep us glued to its News Feed, as well as facilitating the spread of fake news and offensive material.
In February, scientists reported "extraordinary" levels of toxic pollution in the Mariana trench, with plastic waste facilitating the spread of industrial chemicals to one of the most remote and inaccessible places on the planet.
This, in combination with the influx of refugees from conflicts in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Cote d'Ivoire, has compounded the ecological issues in the area, potentially facilitating the spread of Ebola.
Roads are a prominent feature of many landscapes, and high road densities create correspondingly high ecological impacts by altering landscape patterns, interrupting ecological flows, increasing erosion, fragmenting habitat, and facilitating the spread of invasive species.
Edwin Van Teijlingen, a professor of reproductive health at Bournemouth University, who was one of the academics who signed the letter, said his main concern was about people returning home from the Games to countries with poor health systems and facilitating the spread of the virus.
But the focus of Fed Up!'s anger was directed at two institutions: Congress and the FDA (the US Food and Drug Administration), which stood accused not only of failing to take the crisis seriously but of facilitating the spread of addiction.
I don't have a subscription to the Wall Street Journal, but I saw this in an ad for the paper: "As accusations of facilitating the spread of fake news continues, our readers can draw comfort and confidence from content that is created, curated and checked in a real newsroom". That affirms a positive commitment to journalistic integrity.
