Sentences with phrase «from cholera»

Railroads were a public good, but not as indisputable a public good as freedom from cholera.

As it usually appears first at seaports, it would appear to be spread by mariners, but it only affects mariners sailing from cholera - affected ports.

It is then that Lyon pays tribute to the Virgin Mary for saving the city from a cholera epidemic that hit Europe in 1823.

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

Gottlieb Monekosso, the WHO's regional director for Africa, said that it will take a prolonged effort costing billions of dollars to make Africa safe from cholera.

From cholera to bird flu, researchers are studying how diseases spread at such events, in the hopes of preventing a future pandemic.

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

While careful not to assign blame, the report has a series of recommendations to prevent similar catastrophes in the future, including screening U.N. personnel from cholera - endemic areas for the presence of Vibrio cholerae before they leave home and giving them a prophylactic dose of antibiotics.

A new study delineates a sequential pattern of changes in the intestinal microbial population of patients recovering from cholera in Bangladesh, findings that may point to ways of speeding recovery from the dangerous diarrheal disease.

When the team tested their algorithm on data from a cholera outbreak that hit the KwaZulu - Natal province of South Africa in 2000, it homed in on a village within three nodes of the source, using time data from just 20 per cent of the villages (Physical Review Letters, DOI: 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.109.068702).

Students of the Wa Secondary Technical School are at risk from cholera and other diseases due to inadequate toilet facilities in the school.

... Have we forgotten about dumsor, unemployment, lack of potable water, people who are suffering from cholera and malaria?»

But he may not have even existed or died a normal death from cholera instead of the drama of an execution and those details added later.

Not exact matches

Last summer he returned from Chad, where he coordinated MSF's field operations and tackled a nutrition crisis and cholera outbreak.

As a human being: As a human being living in Africa, I am more prone to die through preventable diseases such as cholera and malaria; it is more probable that I will experience wars and conflicts; I am more likely to live under one dollar a day and for either myself or my children to suffer from malnutrition.

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.

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

Adewole said in 2017, Nigeria had to contend with the outbreak of cholera from Kwara, Lagos, Kano and Borno states, adding that the disease is preventable with the availability of water and good hygiene.

A few meters away from where one of the worst cholera outbreaks in history started, several Haitian teenagers are enjoying a bath.

So cholera quickly spread from the interior to the coastal city of St. Marc, and from there it overran the country.

Some came from Nepal, where cholera is endemic, and although they showed no symptoms of cholera, genetic fingerprinting has matched the strain of cholera in Haiti to the strain prevalent in Southeast Asia.

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

CHOLERA IN HAITI: Absent from Haiti for at least a century, cholera swept in after the powerful earthquake of January 2010.

Cholera vaccines have had limited success: in 2000, a promising vaccine made from live, weakened cholera bacteria protected 80 per cent of the North American or European adults who took it, but a much smaller proportion of Indonesians, with protection levels especially low in children.

Infections that can cross over from animals should also be high priority, he says, as well as antibiotic resistance in pathogens like cholera and gonorrhoea.

Satellite imagery is used for all sorts of climate study, from identifying conditions that allow infectious diseases like West Nile virus and cholera to emerge, to creating models for predicting hurricanes, to distinguishing natural resources such as wind, water and sunlight.

But in a cholera outbreak, many catch and spread the bacteria without getting sick, making it hard to tell who will still benefit from vaccine.

That will mean eliminating cholera from 20 of the 47 countries that have it, and enabling the rest to detect and stop outbreaks before they get out of control, according to this Global Task Force on Cholera Control.

The investigators analyzed stool samples from two groups of cholera patients in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

When cholera spread through London's Soho district in 1854, Snow plotted a map of the deadly outbreak and found that everyone who fell ill had used water from a centrally placed public well that was contaminated by nearby sewers and cesspools.

Indeed, when a flight from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles stopped in Lima in 1992, it picked up some seafood infected with the cholera then making the rounds in Peru.

By connecting distant places, meanwhile, globalization permits the long - distance transfer of microbes along with their insect vectors and their human victims, as evidenced not only by the spread of HIV around the world, but also by North American cases of cholera and SARS brought by infected passengers on jet flights from South America and Asia, respectively.

The site is a potpourri of useful material: audio files telling the story of Snow's investigations; an exhaustive collection of Snow's original writing; a vast library of articles written about Snow's legacy; annotated maps of London, including Snow's famous map of the Soho outbreak; short biographies of the major figures in Snow's life; excerpts from books that mention him; dozens of photographs, including images of Snow and landmarks in London related to his life; modern - day scientific explanations of the cholera bacteria; and much more.

From avian flu to cholera, infectious diseases may not be able to hide for long.

Poinar is just as eager to find DNA from V. cholerae as from plague, because tracing the evolution of cholera is still urgent today.

POWs began dying from the combined effects of malaria, cholera and malnutrition.

DNA from ancient microbes could also help today's medical researchers keep one step ahead of fast - evolving diseases like cholera and influenza.

If Poinar gets cholera DNA from Pozzeveri, it will let him compare the Philadelphia V. cholerae genome with one from the same time but a different place.

Dutch researchers say the new strain arose when the bacterium that usually causes cholera borrowed genes from a normally harmless strain.

Poinar has already sequenced a sample of mid-19th century cholera from the United States.

The team studied genetic data from over 1200 cholera samples, some dating back to the 1950s.

Professor Nick Thomson, senior author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: «These findings have implications for the control of cholera pandemics.

The scientists found that both the activity of the genes, as well as the production of the cholera toxin itself were increased when the bacterium was fed with glucose, but they were considerably decreased when it was fed with starch from rice.

Melanie Blokesch and Andrea Rinaldo at EPFL have now correlated data from a recent cholera outbreak in Haiti with the effectiveness of oral rehydration therapy.

Blokesch's lab grew the cholera bacterium with different sugars (e.g. glucose, sucrose) and starch from potatoes and rice to see how each would affect the cholera toxin genes.

Using data from the outbreak of cholera that started in 2010 in the region, they developed a mathematical model of the disease's epidemiology.

Ya'ara Leibovici - Weissman from Tel Aviv University said: «In treating cholera a quick and accurate diagnosis remains key, but it is clear from the results that antimicrobials result in substantial improvements in clinical and microbiological outcomes, with similar effects observed in severely and non-severely ill patients.

«Vaccines should not be viewed as a silver bullet that can subdue cholera in Haiti but wider use of them, such as in campaigns targeting particularly vulnerable populations, can play a meaningful role in protecting people from illness and death.»

An analysis of vaccination policy by officials from PAHO and the Sabin Vaccine Institute agrees that cholera vaccination can be one component of an elimination plan.

Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, co-ordinated through the editorial base in LSTM, conducted an independent review of the effects of treating cholera with antimicrobial drugs, published in The Cochrane Library today.