Sentences with phrase «larger cholera»
Somehow, the tiny phages sneaked in and overpowered the much larger cholera cells, using a big chunk of this stolen immune system.
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Latin America has experienced two of the largest cholera epidemics in modern history; one in 1991 and the other in 2010.
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Col. White has not had a single case of cholera among his large gang of negroes since the disease appeared in the south.
The battle against cholera, then, is a microcosm of the larger, systematic problems that have made Haiti the poorest and most intractable nation in the Western Hemisphere.
«Earlier this year, MSF conducted a large oral cholera vaccination campaign to prevent an epidemic that could potentially strike that already very vulnerable population.»
So when a large number of cholera cases caused by a new strain named O139 started turning up in India, WHO officials were understandably alarmed.
Chlorine effectively kills a large variety of microbial waterborne pathogens, including those that can cause typhoid fever, dysentery, cholera and Legionnaires» disease.
This allowed the researchers to uncover that different strains of Vibrio cholerae can be assigned different risks for causing large outbreaks.
These findings are among the many insights published this month in a special section of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene — AJTMH and PAHO: Commemorating the 3rd Anniversary of the Cholera Outbreak in Haiti: Invited Papers documenting the public health response to the largest national cholera outbreak in modern history.
About 8,600 died in the largest German epidemic of the late 19th century, and the last major cholera epidemic in a major city of the Western world.
Accordingly, the book is very wide ranging topically, covering issues from the discovery of the puzzling roots of cholera's epidemiology, to the effects of large storms on the behavior of the insurance industry, to the social disruptions arising from hurricanes and warfare, to the roots of the problems with the global economic system — and much in between.
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The cholera has wreaked intermittent misfortune and death upon large swaths of civilization.