Sentences with phrase «of cholera»

Recently an outbreak of cholera in Haiti brought public attention to this deadly disease.

For a century and a half, epidemiology has been an effective strategy for tracing the root causes of infectious disease outbreaks — as John Snow demonstrated in 1854, when he painstakingly mapped cases of cholera in London and eventually traced them to a single contaminated well and water pump in the Soho district of the city.

The United Nation's Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon has revealed that Borno State recorded 530 cases of cholera infections as at September 5 this year...

Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a travel notice warning travelers of an epidemic strain of cholera in Haiti.

Reeves says that a phage — a virus that infects bacteria — picked up the «classic» form of the cholera toxin gene from the sixth strain and then infected the El Tor strain, transferring the toxin gene.

Legend had it that a poet once threw himself into the Thames over her, though he had thought better of it and swum ashore, only to die of cholera weeks later.

He spent that August as a volunteer in Burkina Faso helping a cooperative of women produce textiles; however, there was an epidemic of cholera at that time, so he went to visit health facilities as well.

The World Health Organisation warns that the dog meat trade spreads rabies and increases the risk of cholera 20-fold.

To control the spread of cholera during an outbreak, rapid care for infected people is vital, including providing ready access to rehydration therapy — a huge challenge in a country where civil war has wreaked havoc on public health and other infrastructure.

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 team found that all recent introductions of cholera bacteria into Africa were already resistant to antibiotics.

The symptoms and treatment of cholera caused by the new strain (designated V. cholerae O139) are largely the same as for «normal» cholera.

The results, presented here at the AAAS annual meeting on 14 February, showed that when the sea surface warmed off the coast of Peru in 1997 - 98, during El Niño, there was a marked increase in rates of cholera infection in Lima and nearby cities.

But for now, Waldor, Clemens and Hotez, writing in The New England Journal of Medicine are calling for a global stockpile of cholera vaccine so there will be enough for emergencies such as Haiti.

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

Australia is inspecting all ships from South America and parts of Asia to prevent the introduction of cholera in ballast water.

«These findings have implications for the control of cholera pandemics.

She spent Rs 84,000 for treatment of cholera at a well - known hospital in Mumbai that didn't offer a cashless claim settlement.

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.

They note that supply concerns are being addressed by a global effort to stockpile 2 million doses of cholera vaccine.

Stockpiles of cholera and yellow fever vaccine are limited, but a new cholera vaccine manufacturer may help ease the shortage.

Satellite imaging can also help warn of cholera outbreaks, which are predicted to worsen with climate change.

The country was free of cholera when the earthquake struck in January, but when the disease broke out in October it quickly took off.

A NEW form of cholera, which emerged in southern India in 1992 and infected thousands of people across Asia, is a bacterial «wolf in sheep's clothing».

In return, the bacteria (Vibrio fischeri, a close relative of the cholera germ) produce a dim blue - green light that is directed downward through small reflective organs in the squid to shine into the water below.

Consider John Snow's manually compiled map of cholera deaths from 1854:

In recent years, severe outbreaks of cholera occurred in Bangladesh and in Peru.

The World Health Organisation warns that the dog trade spreads rabies and increases the risk of cholera 20-fold 5.

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.

Zimbabwe is facing an «unprecedented» outbreak of cholera as a result of the deteriorating infrastructure in the country

In 1860 the breakout of cholera in Mundakkayam alone wiped out many.

Whether it be because you work with children, pass by a homeless individual every day, or have witnessed the impact of cholera and unsafe sanitation on a community, we all have something that triggers a desire to help.

The role these priestesses play can be illustrated in the narration of P.Y. Luke and John Carman about a ceremony of sacrifice to Goddess of cholera

Roseann Dennery, a relief worker with Samaritan's Purse, writes a column about the face of cholera in Haiti.

I use the tincture and powder largely in the preparation of cholera mixture and pills, also in gargles for sore - throat» (Brigade - Surgeon S. M. Shircore, Murshedabad).

For every extra zero latched on to already ludicrous inflation figures, we are greeted with the disheartening news of cholera outbreaks, tortured opposition and widespread poverty, matched with images of a defiant president, damning a Western colonial threat that has long since perished.

The Borno State government has confirmed the death of three persons as a result of cholera disease outbreak in the state.

The outbreak of cholera posed grave risks to pregnant women in the Northeast States ravaged by the destructive activities of Boko - Haram terrorists, the UN Population Fund...

One of them, Patrick Ulysse, a health coordinator for PIH, nodded at the prospect of a cholera - free Haiti.

The move to drop the campaign reverses a difficult decision taken last month by the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision, which agreed to ship out about half of its total supply of cholera vaccine to the war - torn country.

Dickinson — the Louisiana State immunologist who said she couldn't believe she's getting paid for the interesting work she's doing on the mechanism of cholera, among other things — credits her mentor, Seth Pincus, for making a big difference in her professional life.

«The Haiti epidemic was so huge it shook up the world of cholera experts,» says Ivers.

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

The seventh pandemic of cholera first came to Africa in 1970, and Africa has since become the continent most affected by the disease.

They were analyzing the DNA sequences of tiny viruses called bacteriophages (literally, «bacteria eaters») lurking in the stool samples of cholera patients.

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.

The researchers conclude that while immunizations can be a useful tool, particularly in the short term, ultimately the «WASH infrastructure provides a long - term, sustainable solution for prevention of cholera.»