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So there is no part of the bill that you would die in a ditch for, except the general principals.Pardon my language—“die in a ditch” is perhaps not what I meant.
For example, there are people who are nowhere near the scene of combat but who die in accidents—I understand that that happens quite often—or those who die while they are out of the country on training but, again, nowhere near a theatre of war.
The problem for amendment 30 is that studies from some areas, including Langholm, indicate that if the hare population explodes in the short term—which it will, if amendment 30 is passed—there will be an increase in disease and hares will die in large numbers. I do not want that to happen, and I do not want a rise in the number of ticks on our hills and in ...
NHS Grampian did not mention the death of this second patient in its initial statement because it took the view that, as the second patient did not die directly of Clostridium difficile, it was not appropriate to report this death in its statement.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 November 2007
Deaths toinfluenza are likely to be under reported when simply looking at the number ofcases where “influenza” is recorded on death certificates as more people willnormally die from complications arising as a result of influenza rather thansimply flu itself.
Unfortunately, the mutations that have a selective advantage are those that can reinfect people who have already had Covid, because those that cannot do so die out, while those that can will spread.
A report last week from Public Health England found that people with learning disabilities were at least six times more likely to die of Covid-19. That is the latest in a number of reports that show that group’s vulnerability and show why the suppression of the virus is so important.
As today’s briefing from OneKind rightly states: “The hidden cost of this business is one of animal sickness, distress and suffering, allied with heart ache for families who have to watch their new pet sicken, and die, or grow up to be confused, unsocialised and potentially aggressive”.