Sentences with phrase «like cholera»

Drought and heavy rainfall events can make drinking water vulnerable to contamination and can ruin agriculture, leading to increases in incidents of water - borne infections and diseases like cholera, as well as malnutrition and hunger when damaged farms fail to provide enough crops for the people who rely on them.

The impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on human health include the effects of air pollution on increased respiratory disease, the spread of vector - borne illnesses like cholera, malaria, and dengue fever due to changing weather patterns, and compromised agricultural production and food security leading to greater malnutrition.

In flood - prone locations, flush toilets back up and pit latrines overflow contaminating the environment and potentially drinking water supplies — with dire consequences to the public health through water - borne diseases like cholera.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

One discussion centered on creating an international mechanism for humanitarian intervention when a malfunctioning nation's leadership fails to address a building crisis like the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, or when it consciously abuses its people by conducting or abetting mass killings...

These are not public health menaces like cholera, and its harder than the ALB to quantify their harm.

Another possible way we used to get B - 12 was by drinking contaminated and untreated water, but that is also how we caught many of our worst diseases like cholera.

With health resources diverted to treating direct casualties of war, Popal fears the rise of diarrhoeal diseases like cholera, typhoid and measles.

So I think that may be what we're seeing in those groups, that these are the people just, again, like cholera, if you will, that just can't handle that degree of volume loss.

Parker suspects that it acts as a reservoir of healthy, protective bacteria that can replenish the intestine after a bacteria - depleting diarrheal illness like cholera.

For you see, plague may not be like cholera, but like cholera it always comes unexpectedly.»

Unraveling the underlying mechanism could help pave the way toward making phages a targeted therapy for diseases like cholera.

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

Climate change will also bring new diseases to many areas, including water - borne diseases like cholera.

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.

This is actually like cholera — it's really the very young and very old who die, those who just can't tolerate the volume loss of having eight or 10 liters of diarrheal stool every day.

Some germs, like cholera, make their hosts produce copious diarrhea.

Baindlas were priests assisting at dalit festivals and sometimes at sacrifices for the whole village when epidemics like cholera visit the village.

Not exact matches

It must be eradicated like a plague, polio or cholera.

In rural areas, where 10 % of people have adequate sanitation, people often defecate in waterways like the Meye, and cholera — which causes explosive diarrhea — drove more people to use the river as a toilet.

Aid groups like PIH immediately erected specialized cholera clinics with bleach hand - and shoe - washing stations; the smell of bleach still pervades the clinics.

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.

Infections like hepatitis and diarrhoea are now appearing, but the biggest fear is cholera.

The report also finds what appear to be consistent differences between the gut microbial population — also called the microbiota — of individuals in developed countries like the U.S. and those the developing world and provides some of the most complete evidence that the gut microbiota usually return to normal after cholera infection.

Like other pathogens, V. cholerae keeps evolving into new forms, and it continues to erupt into worldwide pandemics.

It turns out the practice of wiping with shared sponges, a few per communal restroom usually sitting in a water basin, was an efficient means of spreading bacteria, possibly promoting diseases like typhoid and cholera.

They just live in a very challenging place, a country who can celebrate one of the only successful revolts in our planet's history, but due to lack of support from developed nations, an inefficient and under - staffed government, and the unforeseen tragedies like the 2010 Earthquake and the introduction of cholera, killing thousands upon thousands of citizens, Haiti simply needs a damn break, some light, some positivity.

When cholera strikes Eel's tenement - like neighborhood, most residents assume that poisonous air is to blame.

Even fatal epidemic diseases like the Black Plague and cholera were cured.

Like Phlogiston, the Luminiferous Ether, the Earth being 20 million years Old (Kelvin), the miasma theory of cholera..........