Word: alarmingly
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...fabric of everyday life, such as strains in the medical infrastructure or changes in the behavioral patterns of people if they aren't going to work or attending school," says Robert Hart, CEO of Veratect. Trained analysts then investigate suspicious reports to determine if additional investigations are needed or alarm bells should be raised. Veratect follows more than 200 diseases around the world in this way, and argues that its system of computer detection and human interpretation can give health officials enough of an early warning of potential disease outbreaks to ready the appropriate medical care...
...lots of time in front of TV cameras, explaining to a worried country why hand-washing is so very important. He spoke with TIME's Bryan Walsh about deciding whether to make an H1N1 flu vaccine, the lessons from Katrina and how to straddle the line between reassurance and alarm...
...failures. Suburban desperation is no new project for novelists and with his riskless and stilted prose, Amidon does little to build upon the motif. Tired and clunky language encumbers the novel, and thus, like the characters within, it never achieves its modest promise.The book opens with an alarm at Doyle Cutler’s house and, although nothing concrete has happened, it is clear that that Cutler is a man to look out for. Cutler has all the trappings of a villain—wealth, secrecy, and even a hairless cat. When the central event of the plot?...
...daughters, so I tried to pretend it wasn't so bad," he says. "But then the pain became so much I couldn't even stand up or sit on the sofa. I just lay on the floor and tried to breathe." (Check out a story on whether the alarm over swine flu was justified...
...less than a third of early estimates, and the death toll was only 19. (Health officials have stopped publicly tallying suspected cases; there are still so many garden-variety flu cases that they felt continued reporting of suspected cases of swine flu would unnecessarily add to the alarm.) (See pictures of the swine flu in Mexico...