Sentences with phrase «cholera pandemics»

The researchers» six - stage story of how the seventh cholera pandemic evolved into its modern form around the Middle East and Asia.

Scholars have identified seven different waves of cholera pandemics beginning in 1817.

They feared a new cholera pandemic, and researchers around the world scrambled to find the source of this dangerous new pathogen.

Since the 1800s, there have been seven cholera pandemics around the globe, resulting in millions of deaths.

At the time, the sixth cholera pandemic was in full swing in the Middle East, Europe, and North Africa.

The second cholera pandemic occurred in the mid-nineteenth century and was the first to reach the United States.

The world is in the grip of its seventh cholera pandemic, but that's not exactly news.

Professor Nick Thomson, senior author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: «These findings have implications for the control of cholera pandemics.

Indeed, the cholera pandemic now raging in many tropical countries is caused by a single strain, called O1.

«These findings have implications for the control of cholera pandemics.

The current, seventh cholera pandemic (marked by a new strain of the bacteria) began in Asia in 1961 and has since spread to Africa and the Americas.