WHO's comfortable calculations fly in the face of the evidence, according to epidemiologists from many Asian countries.
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One surprise was that players put themselves into risky situations more often than epidemiologists allow for in their models.
Based on the last pandemic and current world population, as many as 7 million people could die, epidemiologists said.
Many public health epidemiologists now count that inevitability in years, not decades.
In its extensive Atlanta headquarters, the CDC investigates thousands of reports from doctors and epidemiologists, always on the lookout for emerging diseases.
For example, 35 epidemiologists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initially came to help New York City hospitals cope with the emergency.
Epidemiologists at the HPA worry that the cohort of unvaccinated children may lead to a big outbreak, with between 30, 000 and 100, 000 people falling ill.
Electricity use in the home is of interest to epidemiologists.
The scores of experts included epidemiologists, hydro-geologists and geochemists.
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They are also working with medical epidemiologists, using focus-group data among teens to analyze dating behavior and father-daughter relationships to see who is most vulnerable to sexually transmitted disease.
Epidemiologists have long been aware of the baleful effects of contradictory findings reported in the media, which confuse the public about what threats to health are worth worrying about.
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In a conference call with reporters, CDC's Dr. Carolyn Bridges said epidemiologists would be scrutinizing the disease's spread in South America, where the cool season is set to begin.
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Given the current state of knowledge of the biology of the disease, these epidemiologists argued, an elimination campaign could not guarantee to stop transmission, and thus keep the case-load down.
All things considered, this is good news for epidemiologists.
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Every year, epidemiologists watch the flu trends moving across the globe and create a new vaccine based on what we expect to see in the US. This year, they had a good match.
On epidemiologists' standard assumption that every individual counts, vaccination programmes are intended to prevent epidemics by ensuring that each infected animal, on average, passes the disease on to less than one healthy animal.
Natural hazards killed 21, 491 people in the U.S. between 1979 and 2004, according to a study by epidemiologists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released earlier this year in the journal Disasters.
The agency is using toxicologists, epidemiologists, microbiologists, forensic chemists and veterinary researchers to investigate whether the treats could be causing dogs to suffer Fanconi syndrome, a kidney disease that can cause the organ to shut down.
Scholars are teaming up with epidemiologists and social scientists to see if what you say and how you say it are determining factors in whether you'll get a loan, contract a disease or tend to stereotype people.
The bird flu, so-called H5N1, has top epidemiologists across the world on edge because of its potential to mutate into a new strain that no one would be immune to and that could easily spread among humans.
Many epidemiologists have argued that, if there is a relationship, it is not a matter of the removal of the foreskin but of the sexual behaviour of the cultural, ethnic or religious groups that are either circumcised or not circumcised.
In what has become a policymaker's must-read, epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett claim to have discovered that, across developed countries, the greater the income inequality in any country, the worse the health and social outcomes for everyone: rich and poor.
In order to understand how things could have gone so wrong, I spoke with two prominent epidemiologists, who have both been investigators and advisors on the NCS: David Savitz of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and Nigel Paneth of Michigan State University in East Lansing.
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Since more than 1, 500 cases of the infection have been identified in America already this year, more than last year's total, the epidemiologists had better get their skates on in order to find out the secrets of a bug no one had heard about just a few years ago.
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