Sentences with phrase «death by infectious disease»

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By the 1960, deaths from infectious disease were no longer common.

Evidence for protection by breast - feeding against infant deaths from infectious diseases in Brazil.

By 2000, 33 million people were infected, 14 million had died, and in Africa it had become the number one cause of death through infectious disease.

A serious and sometimes fatal infectious disease that is spread by infected mosquitoes, malaria and its parasite Plasmodium falciparum, is responsible for nearly 450,000 deaths every year, the majority of them children under the age of five.

Clearing land for farms and developments has long been assailed for destroying amphibian habitats, but the main culprit in their deaths, according to the report, is chytridiomycosis, an infectious disease caused by a waterborne fungus.

Tuberculosis is the leading infectious disease cause of death in the world and there is a global effort to eradicate it by 2035.

The average life span for a pygmy is only about 17 years; a leading cause of death is infectious disease carried by the miasma of microbes that flourish in the hot, moist jungle.

He proved that a vitamin A deficiency dramatically increased childhood morbidity and mortality from infectious disease, and that a 4 - cent dose of vitamin A not only prevented and cured eye disease, but also reduced childhood deaths by 34 percent.

«The women in the Network, like this consortium, understand that if we do not address the unmet need for family planning, the other global health goals of improving maternal, infant, and child deaths and combating infectious disease, will be difficult to achieve by 2015,» concluded Duff Gillespie, PhD, professor with the Bloomberg School's Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health.

Some opioid - related deaths may be missed when people die from pneumonia and other infectious diseases spurred on by drug abuse.

A: Vaccines have protected millions of animals from illness and death caused by infectious diseases.

Core vaccinations are recommended for all horses because the diseases are prevalent; highly infectious; have the potential to cause serious disease or death; pose a threat to human health; or are required by law.

«The Monterey sea otters are bigger, live longer, and have a higher population growth rate,» Lafferty summarized, while «contrary to past results» reported by others, «infectious disease was not a particularly common source of death in the small sample of 17 tagged sea otters that were found dead during the study.»

«For the most part, the dancing manias [after the dreadful miseries of the Black Death,] present more of the characteristics which we associate with epidemic infectious diseases of the nervous system.They seem, rather, like mass hysterias brought on by terror and despair, in populations oppressed, famished and wretched to a degree almost unimaginable today.»

By trapping the earth's heat in the atmosphere, greenhouse gases lead to warmer temperatures and all the hallmarks of climate change: rising sea levels, more extreme weather, heat - related deaths, and increasing transmission of infectious diseases like Lyme.

For example, certain states may prohibit cremation of remains for a certain period unless the death was caused by a contagious or infectious disease, or prohibit family members from assisting in preparing the body for disposition if there is a risk of transmitting a communicable disease from the corpse.