Sentences with phrase «from typhus»

While these pests might be puny, their effects can be massive in their transmission of diseases from typhus to Bartonella or tapeworm and more.

In fact, until the mid-19th century doctors couldn't distinguish it from typhus and malaria.

Not exact matches

Not even an apple tree a day could prevent Max from contracting typhus at age seven.

A lice - borne typhus epidemic swept westward from Russia in the early 20th century, and by World War II, German troops in trenches on the Eastern Front were falling fast to the disease.

Conducted by Prof Rose McGready and Assoc. Prof Daniel Henry Paris from the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) in Mae Sot, Thailand, and the Mahidol Oxford Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, affiliated to Oxford University, UK, in collaboration with Prof John Antony Jude Prakash of the Dept. of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, the study, «Pregnancy outcome in relation to treatment of Murine typhus and Scrub typhus infection: a fever cohort and a case series analysis,» will be published in the November 20th, 2014 issue of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

A recent study from the Thai - Myanmar border highlights the severe and previously under - reported adverse impact of readily treatable tropical rickettsial illnesses, notably scrub typhus and murine typhus, on pregnancy outcomes, finding that more than one third of affected pregnancies resulted either in stillbirth or premature and / or low birth weight babies.

Genomic data from the Malawi strains reveals that up until 2009 no H58 strains were found, and other local strains of Salmonella Typhi were fully sensitive to the antibiotics used locally.

Selection of Potential Therapeutic Bacteriophages that Lyse a CTX - M - 15 Extended Spectrum β - Lactamase Producing Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi Strain from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

FROM KVUE NEWS AUSTIN: Even though Texas Health officials in Austin are investigating a dozen possible cases of typhus in...

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?).

Typhus, Fleas, and Cats Somehow I missed press releases from both Stray Cat Alliance and Alley Cat Allies, both issued yesterday in response to the Santa Ana typhus scare.

Other diseases transmitted from cats to humans include hookworms, cat scratch disease, murine typhus, tularemia, plague and rabies.

It is, however, more likely that you would be exposed to typhus from a cat — in a study in Los Angeles, 90 % of the outdoor cats showed evidence of exposure as opposed to only 42 % of trapped adult opossums.

«Traps to catch feral cats have been removed from two Santa Ana school campuses, where public health officials have been trying to stop the spread of typhus, a city official said Friday.

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.»

(Among other factors, the French army suffered severely from an outbreak of typhus.)

If it were typhus instead, any «CO2 Mary» like Exxon would be quaranteened and barred from cooking up more contagion.

I was horrified to read that more than 2 million kids die each year from fecal - related diseases such as dysentery, cholera, typhus fever, and typhoid.