People like us are the first ones to get sick from such diseases.
Though it is unlikely to get sick from visiting one of these places, health experts say germs are always a gamble.
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Most of the time, people who get sick from swine flu have been in contact with pigs, and the virus doesn't spread from person to person.
But it's the water that they're really concerned about, that if people start drinking the water that's coming out of the wells, which people has been doing, that they're going to get sick from that.
In the current crisis, the constant emphasis in official pronouncements and media commentary on the very low likelihood of high enough exposures to make a person immediately sick obscures the fact that as long as we use nuclear technologies, we cannot prevent radiation exposure, and that some people are going to get sick from our use of them.
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About 2.2 million people get sick annually from eating contaminated leafy vegetables.
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This year, all lifetime limits on how much insurance companies cover if women get sick will be eliminated and the law bans insurance companies from dropping women from coverage when they get sick.
When the numbers are broken down, it turns out that 61% favor the part of the legislation that prohibits insurers from dropping people when they get sick while 64% like the parts that stop private health insurance companies from denying coverage to those who have pre-existing conditions.
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No longer will they be able to drop you from coverage when you get sick.
And starting this year, insurance companies will be banned from dropping people from coverage when they get sick or placing lifetime limits on coverage.
Insurers had backed a strong requirement that individuals carry coverage, since it hands them millions of new members and prevents people from waiting until they get sick to buy a policy.
The emerging plan would cobble together several basic insurance reforms that many Republicans have expressed support for, including a ban on excluding people for pre-existing conditions and stopping insurance companies from dropping coverage if you get sick.
It will prevent insurance companies from rescinding your coverage when you get sick because of an administrative error.
Both would prevent insurance companies from dropping your coverage when you get sick.
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They could deny treatment for specific conditions, especially right after a policy is purchased, to dissuade people from signing up only once they get sick.
So parents can have a little bit of security. (Applause.) This year, under this legislation, insurance companies will be banned from dropping your coverage when you get sick.
The Affordable Care Act forces insurance companies to play by a new set of common sense rules, prohibiting them from dropping your coverage if you get sick, billing you into bankruptcy through annual or lifetime limits, and, soon, discriminating against anyone with a pre-existing condition.
This year, insurance companies will be banned forever from denying coverage to children with preexisting conditions. (Applause.) This year, they will be banned from dropping your coverage when you get sick. (Applause.) And they will no longer be able to arbitrarily and massively hike your premiums -- just like they did to Leslie or Natoma or millions of others Americans.
Behind these cuts is human hardship poor families who will no longer get subsidised child care to allow the parents to work, old and sick people who no longer receive visits from carers, pupils who sit in larger classes and get less attention, young people who can no longer afford to pay the higher tuition fees of the state universities.
Zich theorizes that one reason there are so many flu cases is that the heart of the flu season coincided with the December holiday season, meaning many people were already sleep-deprived from parties and were more likely to get sick.
Many people, not just a few sick people, get old, have some decline in health and die from something.
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The mayor urged residents to stay home from work or school if they are sick, and to get flu shots.
Enough radiation in the wrong places you get sick given enough time, you die -burned to death from the inside by the atoms that make up your own body.
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We fought to stop health insurance companies from dropping your coverage on the basis of preexisting conditions, or right when you get sick, or placing lifetime limits on the amount of care that you can receive.
This is a very different situation from gene test for rare inherited diseases where most everyone who has the bad gene will get sick.
And you further distance yourself from your own feelings, pushing them deeper inside, increasing the probability that you will get sick or angry again, alienating more people.
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