Public health officials say they see little reason to doubt that the virus will kill hundreds of people this year, mostly frail and elderly.
At first there were attempts to keep school going, but, as classes were too often interrupted by field exercises, the mostly frail, elderly teachers refused to travel the wearisome dirt road to our battery.
One main problem in applying these experimental therapies is ethical: there is a common feeling that as ageing is not a disease; the elderly are not sick and therefore do not require adventurous therapies with unpredictable side-effects in mostly frail individuals.
Another facility, Civil Hospital, was also full of heatstroke patients, who are mostly elderly, frail, homeless or migrant workers with little access to shelter from the burning sun.
In some cases it was not possible to do the baseline interview so soon, mostly because the frail elderly person not having enough strength.
Our findings are consistent with a process of forward mortality displacement (or "harvesting"), with initial increases in mortality (mostly in already frail individuals) that are followed by deficits in expected number of deaths sometime after the initial excess.
A recent review by Cruz-Jentoft et al 88 of studies in mostly community-dwelling frail older persons reported that overall, most studies found an increase in muscle strength and physical performance by different combinations of exercise (aerobic, strength, flexibility and/or balance training), but less evidence of an increase in muscle mass.
Onscreen, disabled women are mostly represented as tragic, frail, and sexless, and while Theron's amputated Imperator Furiosa is certainly not frail, she still is a bit tragic and sexless.
Its 300 beds are occupied by the old and the frail, people mostly winding down their lives, thinking more about yesterday than tomorrow.
Felperin thought the stars' work was frail, with Farrell "mostly taciturn and vacuous".
Now in his 90s and in frail health, Mandela mostly stays in Johannesburg, but you can see his childhood home and native village, Qunu in the northernmost section of the Eastern Cape along the main route N2.
