Sentences with phrase «then cholera»

If shape plays a critical role in V. cholerae infection, then cholera treatments could be developed that either impede the bacteria's ability to morph, or alter a patient's gut so that the bacteria can't infect it, said corresponding author Zemer Gitai, Princeton's Edwin Grant Conklin Professor of Biology and professor of molecular biology.

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Then, two weeks into that, we received our first cholera case.

And then I gave Adam syphillis, cholera, typhus, leprosy, rabies, malaria, and tuberculosis all simultaneously, because I'm a real ass... and I needed a human vector for some of these historic diseases.

Back then, it was indicated to treat «neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, tetanus, hydrophobia, epidemic cholera, convulsions, chorea, hysteria, mental depression, delirium tremens, insanity, and uterine hemorrhage.»

The battle against cholera, then, is a microcosm of the larger, systematic problems that have made Haiti the poorest and most intractable nation in the Western Hemisphere.

Overwhelmed doctors — some of whom, Lantagne says, literally had no idea what cholera was — began stacking patients two to a bed, then on the floor.

As a result, dozens of passengers who arrived in Los Angeles, some of whom then changed planes and flew on to Nevada and even as far as Japan, found that they had contracted cholera.

The discovery not only helped prevent the further spread of the disease but also constituted a major medical breakthrough — until then the scientific establishment had wrongly assumed that cholera was transmitted by air, not water.

Indeed, when a flight from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles stopped in Lima in 1992, it picked up some seafood infected with the cholera then making the rounds in Peru.

A typical visitor might find her way there via a Google search on «epidemiology» or «cholera» and then sample various versions of the outbreak map that Snow tinkered with over the years, or download a handful of PDF files that offer a comprehensive account of his public - health legacy.

And then, using data collected by other scientists on three predator - prey pairs — mink - muskrat, gyrfalcon - rock ptarmigan and phage - Vibrio cholerae — they show how their theory could explain unexpected population cycles.

For reasons no one quite understands, cholera epidemics seem to follow the seasons, surging and then receding in predictable patterns.

The researchers discovered the protein that allows the bacterium Vibrio cholerae to morph into a corkscrew shape that likely helps it twist into — and then escape — the protective mucus that lines the inside of the gut.

And he very carefully and very meticulously by hand drew maps and put dots of all the cholera cases and then looked at the wells.

And then all of the cases of cholera in that area suddenly dropped dramatically.

It is then that Lyon pays tribute to the Virgin Mary for saving the city from a cholera epidemic that hit Europe in 1823.

There was no compensation paid then - the disruption was widely shared, everyone's toilet contributed to the cholera problem, and everyone benefited from having it solved.