Sick leave: number of days of sick leave needed by the patient.
Women reported trying to collect clean water to bathe their babies, and if the baby was sick, the number of baths was less frequent.
In other words: All the birds are sick, vast numbers to the point of death.
USDA meat inspectors also have began calling in sick — in numbers large enough to trigger an agency crackdown.
Other measures are being developed, but the sick-leave numbers are already heading in the right direction — downwards.
"Being sick meant a number of things to me," she told Ms. Winfrey.
Because most people who get cancer are already sick with a number of other diseases, those three extra years of life may leave them even sicker.
Bats are native reservoir hosts — meaning they host viruses without getting sick — for a number of the world's most dangerous human diseases, including rabies, Ebola and SARS.
Blackburn manager Gary Bowyer: "[Hull manager] Steve Bruce must be sick of my number coming up on his phone.
At Lambir, saplings became more crowded, raising the risk that the plants would get sick, and the number of species has fallen.
