Sentences with phrase «for typhus»

Another story from KTLA - TV (perhaps from Thursday, though it's unclear) suggests that this isn't all about typhus: «Orange County Vector Control will be out here at Willard Intermediate... and El Sol Science and Arts Academy not only to trap feral cats and test them for typhus, but to also help control the population, which they say they've fielded a lot of complaints about lately.»

Not exact matches

And then I gave Adam syphillis, cholera, typhus, leprosy, rabies, malaria, and tuberculosis all simultaneously, because I'm a real ass... and I needed a human vector for some of these historic diseases.

Even mountains of corpses and emaciated, half - dead survivors prove nothing for the deniers, who say simply that these are unfortunate victims of typhus or cholera epidemics.

Probably half a billion people are alive now who would be dead except for the use of DDT to eradicate malaria, typhus, and other epidemic scourges in the poorer countries.

In studies performed by Dr. John Mainarich of Bio-Research Laboratories in Redmond, WA, samples of each of the common antimicrobials or sanitizing agents were evaluated for effectiveness against Candida albicans, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi, Streptococcus faecium and E. coli.

Four other members of the expedition had gotten sick, and all of them showed antibodies for North Asian tick typhus, although only two remembered being bitten.

As for the difference between S. Typhimurium and S. Typhi, the researchers could show that a particular part of the outer layer of S. Typhi — the so - called Vi capsular polysaccharide — was responsible for inhibiting the complement - dependent attraction of neutrophils.

The first, S. typhi, is responsible for typhoid fever, which strikes 16 million people a year and kills 600,000 worldwide.

Introduction: Invasive infections caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and Paratyphi A are estimated to account for 12 - 27 million febrile illness episodes worldwide annually.

For this reason, public health officials in Texas, where flea - borne typhus is endemic, have focused their efforts on controlling fleas rather than their hosts.

For example, murine typhus and bartonellosis (cat scratch disease) can be transmitted to humans from cat flea bites or the bacteria from feces of infected cat fleas (gross, right?).

Among the topics up for discussion: toxoplasmosis, rabies, and typhus (oh, my!).

FLEA - BORNE TYPHUS ALERT FOR LOCAL SANTA ANA COMMUNITY SANTA ANA, CA (May 25, 2012)-- Earlier this week Santa Ana officials were notified by O.C. Vector Control that, as of last Friday, there is a Santa Ana resident with a confirmed case of Typhus.

Recent assessments conducted on the impacts of climate change on health in Australia, highlight the potential for the onset of and increases in vector - borne, water - borne and food - borne diseases such as: malaria, dengue fever, Murray Valley encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis, melioidosis, leptospirosis and scrub typhus.

For instance, recent evidence suggests that cultural values of collectivism also serve an «anti-pathogen defence» whereby behavioural manifestations of collectivism, such as conformity and parochialism, function as buffers against the transmission and increased prevalence of disease - causing pathogens (e.g. malaria, typhus and tuberculosis)(Fincher et al. 2008).