These impacts are likely to be more pronounced in several of the state's most vulnerable populations, including the elderly, those living in poverty, and the infirm, populations often served by local health agencies.
"Diseases like these weed out sick or infirm individuals in the host population" — the deer, Dr. Prendini said.
"These services allowed poor and infirm New Yorkers — among our most vulnerable population — to remain in their homes and live independently," Mr. Cardozo said.
John B. Rhea, a former Wall Street investment banker who took over as the housing authority chairman in 2009, said he regretted the real hardship many public housing residents suffered through — but he said his tenants received more care and attention than those who lived in private buildings, many of which also have large populations of older and infirm residents.
The World Health Organization condemned the embargo for its "very significant negative impact on the overall performance of the national economy" which "compromises the quality of life of the population, specifically the children, the elderly and the infirm".
Because the disease is sexually transmitted, it is decimating not the elderly and infirm, but the most vibrant and economically productive sector of the population.
Ending the current wars will not lower those veterans costs; indeed, they will rise ever more steeply for decades to come as the population of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan expands, ages and becomes more infirm.
Like most orders, the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary have an age limit they say is necessary, given their graying population and the expenses associated with supporting the retired and the infirm.
Perhaps because they serve a population that has limited political power and consists of the frailest and most infirm of residents, nursing homes have long been an area of health care rife with abuse.
