Sentences with phrase «contracting cholera»

«Among other factors we will be investigating is whether an individual's microbiota affects the risk of contracting cholera, information that could help us better understand risk factors for the disease.»

But in 2013 the numbers dropped, and Haitian clinics now record about 290 cases per week; perhaps hundreds of others contract cholera but don't seek treatment.

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.

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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She asked them to educate community members on practicing safe personal hygiene to prevent them from contracting diseases such as cholera.