Sentences with phrase «death by mosquitoes»

Some victims were bound to trees and left to be eaten to death by mosquitoes.

Also almost got eaten to death by mosquitos and shredded up from near - tumbling down the pile of logs but it was all in good fun of being able to take photos for the pleasure of your viewing.

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I idealized my marriage as, in the words of playwright Robert Anderson, «a picnic without mosquitoes» («Notes of a Survivor» in The Patient, Death and the Family, edited by Stanley B. Troup and William A. Greene [Scribner's, 1974], p. 82).

Thanks to the distribution of 400 million mosquito nets coated with insecticide, and hundreds of millions of testing kits and treatment courses, made possible by the committed efforts of the world's largest investors in the malaria effort, notably, the United States, the United Kingdom, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and the World Bank, malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa have decreased by one third over the past ten years.

This will provide information that could be used to illuminate how malaria — a disease which causes more than half a million deaths a year — is spread from human to human by parasite - infected female mosquitoes which bite people to feed on blood they need in order to reproduce.

Dengue, a viral disease transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, is a serious global public health problem, infecting 50 to 390 million people each year in more than 100 countries and resulting in at least 20,000 deaths annually.

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.

Plasmodium falciparum, a blood - borne parasite carried by mosquitoes, is responsible for most of the estimated 219 million cases, and 655,000 deaths, from malaria per year.

But dengue isn't the biggest mosquito - borne killer; that's malaria, which is responsible for the deaths of more than half a million people annually and is transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes, a very different genus.

Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites that are transmitted to humans by a mosquito bite, leading to 219 million documented cases and 627,000 deaths worldwide in 2012.

Infection is caused by the bite of a malaria - carrying mosquito, and 90 % of all deaths are in Africa, mostly amongst children.

People infected by one type usually develop mild flu - like symptoms although severe muscle and joint pain is common; however, if subsequently bitten by a mosquito carrying another of the four types, the second exposure can lead to serious illness and death.

If only he protected us from the scientific incorrectness of so many other films: «Jurassic Park» (cloning dinosaurs through embalmed mosquitoes is preposterous), «Alien» (a mouth inside a mouth would choke it to death) and «Raiders of the Lost Ark.» (Closing your eyes does not protect your head from being exploded, shriveled, or melted by pissed - off angels.

Most recently, a 3 year old girl in Mosquito First Nation, Saskatchewan, was killed by dogs in August 2011 and 10 year old Racquelle Tssessaze was mauled to death by dogs on Lac Brochet First Nation in Manitoba in April 2014.

Heartworms are transmitted from animal to animal by mosquitoes and are a serious disease that results in severe lung disease, heart failure, other organ damage, and death in pets.

Spread by mosquitoes, this infection targets the heart and leads to almost certain death if left untreated.

Cats that are on a macrolide preventative (ie, selamectin, ivermectin, or moxidectin) can have a false - positive ELISA result after being bitten by an infected mosquito, with resultant larvae death and no persistent infection.2 Because antibodies are produced after the initial exposure, a positive result indicates that the cat has been bitten by a D immitis — carrying mosquito 2 to 3 months previously, but not whether it is currently infected.

There are about 56 strains of it, of which only four strains cause symptoms in humans (and one of which causes death), all carried by only one breed of mosquito out of thousands.

Malaria is still one of the leading causes of death in Africa and other areas, with 655,000 people dying every year from the virus that is spread by mosquitos.