This is a relatively small risk but it is there and people need to know that.
Uncircumcised men run a small risk of developing phimosis, a condition that restricts urine flow and causes discomfort.
Most people have a natural resistance to meningococcal meningitis, but there is a small risk of complications, particularly for children under five.
However, there is still a small risk that shares will perform poorly for several decades, against which youth offers no defence.
But many of them also harbour an erroneous belief that pigs, unlike primates, pose a small risk of passing infections to people.
So you might ask, why accept even a small risk of such a dreadful outcome, if it can be made much smaller at moderate cost?
"We believe it actually shows there is only a small risk to any one individual against the background of conditions that exist with or without Vioxx, " says Frazier.
There is a small risk that people may contract a stomach bug if they come into contact with contaminated water, especially where there has been mixing with sewage.
However, Dr Taranissi said genetic screening did carry a small risk to the embryo, and would only be used on women who were thought to be at high risk.
We also found that innovation organizations understand that failures are a necessity (in as much as 90% of the time) so long as the learning comes from small risk experiments.
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Shale-gas producers also face opposition from greens, who object to the industry's heavy water usage and a small risk that fracking could lead to contamination of aquifers and even to earthquakes.
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In fact, it is in some ways worse than vaccination, since at least a vaccinated individual is also protected (albeit at the small risk of an adverse reaction to the vaccine).
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Pregnant women should also avoid contact with sheep and newborn lambs during the lambing season because there is a small risk that an infected sheep or lamb could pass the infection on at this time.
And despite Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt's hope that "self-driving cars should become the predominant mode of transportation in our lifetime", it could be that even a small risk could be too much for some people to be comfortable removing the driver completely.
The irony of this is that this (and not, for example MMR) was the one vaccine then used which was known to carry a small risk of very serious neurological side effects - it could, very rarely, actually cause polio, the disease it is designed to prevent.
Uncontrolled celiac disease is also associated with a small increased risk of a number of malignancies.
Rushing into a whole series of scans to rule out a small heart risk may not accomplish much.
It said the trees had been felled following an ecology assessment of the site that found they posed a "small potential risk to local bat populations".
The new study, which followed patients for an average of 4.5 years, didn't last long enough to conclusively rule out a small increased risk of cancer from oral bisphosphonates, according to the researchers.
And, because myriad Dodd-Frank rules remain unwritten and banks are facing the phase-in of new Basel III standards, to increase profits, banks can either make a riskier loan in an uncertain regulatory environment, or cool their heels and collect a small but risk-free return.
The actual risk to any person is very small and the risk of stopping a prescribed treatment could be greater.
Known risk factors for breast cancer are relatively weak, contributing only a small elevation in risk.
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However, although this is significant when assessed in the light of a very minor operation, the extra risk is very small in comparison to the higher overall risk of major surgery like a heart bypass.
There is a very small but real risk of harm from vaccines, and the Vaccine Court has made thousands of awards to compensate victims.
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Drug safety experts--who understand how even a small increase in risk for a common problem like heart attacks can have massive effects--need to be there.
Just as the risk of dying is quite small in any year, the risk of a crash runs around 2 percent in any given 2-year period, the authors find.
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