Other types of rapid change also periodically affect some Asia-Pacific coasts, especially those in tectonically unstable areas.
The lake, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, is also periodically affected by algae which affects animals and can be harmful to humans.
He and his staff try to draw a distinction between red tide, calling it a naturally occurring phenomenon that has periodically affected the Gulf Coast, and the blue-green algae from Lake Okeechobee.
This probably explains why swine are important as intermediate hosts for novel pandemic flu strains that periodically affect human populations [ 5].
The majority of residents served by these programs do not live in camps; at virtually all sites, insecurity has periodically affected delivery of services.
The 2 northernmost regions of Cameroon, North and Far North, are considered to belong to the African meningitis belt (1 ) and are periodically affected by meningococcal meningitis outbreaks.
We estimated the percentage of donors in each state that are likely to be at least periodically affected by dengue outbreaks by multiplying the proportion of each state's population in transmission-risk zones by each state's percentage contribution to national blood supply (Table 5).
When exposed to a periodically modulated radiation of selective wavelength, the condensed phased sample heats up/cools off periodically, which affects the pressure of a gas (the PA effect) in a hermetically sealed chamber (called the PA cell) above the sample.
FMD is found regularly in parts of South America, Africa, the Middle East and other parts of Asia and periodically spreads to affect normally disease free countries.
Some factors that arise periodically appear to affect the incidence of cerebral infarction, which gradually develops over years, and this suggests an aetiological mechanism different from the conventional cumulative effect of risk factors due to long-term exposure.
