Sentences with phrase «cholerae which»

Cholera is an intestinal infection that is caused by a bacteria called Vibrio cholerae which is found in contaminated water in places with contaminated water and poor sanitation.

Because of this, people who have contracted the cholera which is endemic to much of the Third World, or people who have suffered from the worldwide epidemic now raging from Africa to South America, have no immunity to the new disease.

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This leads to rapid consumption of natural resources, which makes it difficult for them to feed and recover from the effects of climate change, such as increased flooding, malnutrition, and cholera.

UN sanctions against Zimbabwe have failed to bring an end to Mugabe's rule in Zimbabwe, which is labouring under hyperinflation that sees prices double every day and a cholera outbreak that has infected almost 20,000 people.

In rural areas, where 10 % of people have adequate sanitation, people often defecate in waterways like the Meye, and cholera — which causes explosive diarrhea — drove more people to use the river as a toilet.

Researchers could now see the culprits and distinguish between similar diseases such as anthrax, cholera and, yes, bubonic plague, which was isolated in 1894 and named Yersinia pestis in honor of Swiss microbiologist Alexandre Yersin.

Behind them looms the razor - wired U.N. compound from which cholera - laden sewage leaked into the nearby Meye stream in October 2010.

«Plans for a cholera vaccination campaign planned in Yemen have been suspended based on a decision of the government,» Tarik Jašarević, a World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson in Geneva, Switzerland, wrote to ScienceInsider in an emailed statement, adding that the decision was made in consultation with Yemeni government partners, including WHO, which advises the Ministry of Health.

The move to drop the campaign reverses a difficult decision taken last month by the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision, which agreed to ship out about half of its total supply of cholera vaccine to the war - torn country.

People in regions in which cholera is prevalent, such as Africa, do not use much vaccine as the immunity the vaccines elicit does not last long.

«The results for the mid-stage cholera group, which included bacteria usually less abundant in the developing world, were probably the most interesting,» says LaRocque, an assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The WHO - ORS solution is a scientifically sound method of body fluid loss replacement, which was developed for use in developing countries where cholera or other diarrheal diseases are common.

The researchers gathered DNA from a cholera victim's intestines, which in 1849 were preserved in jars in the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia.

Cholera is caused when the bacterium Vibrio cholerae infects the small intestine, resulting in severe diarrhea and vomiting, which can result in dehydration and death.

«This dreadful disease has become a clarion call for action that could have far - reaching benefits for the people of Haiti beyond ending cholera transmission,» said Jon Andrus, MD, deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), which collaborated with the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) in producing the special section.

He studied two types of disease - causing bacteria, Vibrio cholerae — the infectious agent behind cholera — and Staphylococcus aureus, which can cause various infections such as abscesses and hospital infections.

Among these are members of the Vibrio family, which includes the species that causes cholera.

African nations last week joined forces to combat cholera, a disease which affects millions of Africans and killed 13 000 in 1991, the worst year on record.

Including Vibrio species, some of which can cause cholera or food poisoning.

This triggers the development of cholera - specific antibody secreting cells (ASCs) which transiently migrate out of the gut and into the blood circulation.

In the image above, red - stained V. cholerae bacteria (right) exhibit the shape - changing protein (stained green), which the researchers named CrvA.

Steve Whitehead, a scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a co-author of the dengue paper, said that challenge trials have been used in the past for malaria, cholera, norovirus, flu and other diseases «for which there's really urgent, urgent need to move the field forward over time.»

Circumstantial evidence suggests that a previously unreported strain of cholera found in oysters and fish - gut contents in Mobile Bay, Alabama during 1991, was transported there by ballast water from ships that arrived from Latin America, which had an ongoing cholera epidemic.

Sida's results are also achieved in other programmes worldwide: its support has been essential in the production of the Dukoral oral cholera vaccine, which helps prevent cholera in adults and children and travellers» diarrhoea caused by bacteria from the E. coli family.

Vibrio bacteria are pretty ubiquitous in the world's oceans, but there are freshwater species, too — you've probably heard of cholera, the disease brought to you by the freshwater Vibrio cholerae, which infects millions of people worldwide each year, especially in developing countries.

Young rabbits often die from a disease called mucoid enteritis, which resembles cystic fibrosis and cholera.

This phylogenetic framework describes the periodicity of lineage introduction and the stable routes of cholera spread, which should inform the rational design of control measures for cholera in Africa.

So, while we don't get much B12 in the water anymore, we don't get much cholera, either, which is a good thing!

Written by of Nobel Prize - winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1985, this imaginative tale of unrequited love is a literary toured force which likens an enduring crush to a crippling disease on the order of cholera.

People suffering from cholera experience acute diarrhea and severe dehydration, which may lead to death.

In 2016 Haiti was struck by Hurricane Matthew which leveled entire communities and caused an upsurge in the ongoing cholera epidemic which was introduced to the island by United Nation aide workers.

A major outbreak of cholera in 1892 was badly handled by the city government, which retained an unusual degree of independence for a German city.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

And in the US, an analysis on Politico compared soda to John Snow's pump handle — which was removed from Broad St, London, to prevent the cholera epidemic in 1854 — and said the evidence linking sugary drinks to poorer health is in and it's just a matter of time before policy initiatives advance across the US to reduce its consumption.