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As small towns have depopulated, aged, and lost their economic base, their medical infrastructure has contracted in kind.
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Juliana Kim, NPR, 5 Sep. 2024
The narrative seems set sometime between roughly 1750 and 1860, when the Highland Clearances extensively depopulated Scotland’s arable lands.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
Both sides of the seventy-five-mile-wide frontier have been largely depopulated, except for soldiers.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
The three workers were working to depopulate chickens at an egg-laying facility experiencing an outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza, which has been circulating in wild birds and has caused multi-state outbreaks in dairy cows, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 13 July 2024
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Juliana Kim, NPR, 5 Sep. 2024
The narrative seems set sometime between roughly 1750 and 1860, when the Highland Clearances extensively depopulated Scotland’s arable lands.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
Both sides of the seventy-five-mile-wide frontier have been largely depopulated, except for soldiers.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
The three workers were working to depopulate chickens at an egg-laying facility experiencing an outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza, which has been circulating in wild birds and has caused multi-state outbreaks in dairy cows, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 13 July 2024
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