Sentences with phrase «ancient scourges»

Health experts have made «record - breaking progress» in getting some of these ancient scourges under control, Margaret Chan, director of the World Health Organization, said in a statement.

The pathogens that proved a curse to ancient mummies may yet provide a cure for ancient scourges that still plague humanity.

New DNA recovery and sequencing technology is at last allowing scientists to assemble entire genomes of ancient scourges — and elusive modern ones

They then injected half the leaves with the usual cacao fungi and exposed the plants to another, pathogenic fungus that causes black pod, an ancient scourge.

Ancient scourge The zombifying fungus's vast geographic distribution also hints at the possibility that it has been possessing ants at least since before many of the continents split apart.

Tilahun Yilma has returned to his native Ethiopia with a modern solution for an ancient scourge

Sally Lehrman marshaled the relevant data in her July Scientific American feature article «The Diabolical Genius of an Ancient Scourge.»

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The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity.

To the long list of ancient pestilences has been added the scourge of AIDS.

In a story that's one part Indiana Jones, one part Nana's craft day down at the local bingo hall, and every part bananas, Hobby Lobby — the giant arts and crafts retailer and apparent scourge of the global archeological community — is being forced by the U.S. Justice Department to return thousands of illegally acquired ancient Iraqi artifacts and pay a multi-million dollar fine.

Jim Clark of Scotland is the youngest world champion Grand Prix driver, the scourge of Indianapolis and the master of an ancient Border farm, where an auld ghost walks.

Engineer Isaac Clarke is sent to repair the Ishimura's communications array, but he arrives to find a living nightmare - the ship is a floating bloodbath, the crew unspeakably mutilated and infected by an ancient alien scourge.

As a promising young demon hunter, you are prepared to take on adversaries from the underworld, but when an ancient Egyptian artifact shows up on your doorstep heralding the return of Seth, a demon scourge as old as evil itself, you find yourself facing the most dangerous challenge imaginable.

What concerns epidemiologists more than ancient diseases are existing scourges relocated, rewired, or even re-evolved by warming.