Sentences with phrase «outbreak of cholera in»

A major outbreak of cholera in 1892 was badly handled by the city government, which retained an unusual degree of independence for a German city.

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

A 100 - day contingency plan has been put in place by the government to fight the outbreak of cholera in the country.

Not exact matches

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.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a leading candidate to be the next World Health Organization director - general, is facing a stunning allegation: covering up three cholera outbreaks in his home country of Ethiopia while he was its health minister.

Early in his career, he implemented a quarantine to shut down a cholera epidemic and he later led another that successfully stopped an outbreak of yellow fever in the Mississippi River Valley.

In October of 2016, the HHI — Haiti doctors and staff were challenged when Hurricane Matthew tore through Haiti as a Category 5 hurricane, destroying much of the island and adding to the already burdened system treating the cholera outbreak.

Because of that week, not only was my own life changed profoundly through friendships and awakenings, but I'm proud to say that we — and I mean all of us because you have all walked this road with our family — we have partnered with incredible leaders to build a school for kids in earthquake ground zero Port - au - Prince (staffed and run by Haitians), supported a home - based village for trafficked children near the border, built a preschool for early support for these children, supported schooling and food programs in neglected villages decimated by the cholera outbreak, supported pregnant and nursing women with a fantastic maternity centre, and so much more.

Officials in Haiti are worried that a cholera outbreak has spread to the capital city of Port au Prince.

The $ 48million is «to improve sanitation in Greater Accra,» she reiterated, adding: «Year - on - year, there is outbreak of cholera and we want to change some of these things; that is why we feel, for this loan, the social benefit will far outweigh the cost.

The UN said it was evaluating humanitarian needs in the country and that «contingency plans are being put in place to mitigate any potential outbreak of waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and diarrhoea», according to spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

«We have recorded seven new cases of Lassa fever across the country and the cholera outbreak in Kwara state has also fizzled out.

About 80 per cent of the Anlo Beach town is currently covered in water, and NADMO fears the insanitary conditions in the area could cause a cholera outbreak in the midst of the flood.

Bauchi State Commissioner for Health, Zuwaira Hassan, on Friday, confirmed that 14 people died in the state following outbreak of cholera and Lassa fever.

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.

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.

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).

Spending on cholera goes mostly to contain outbreaks in new places, leaving hotspots as continued sources of disease.

A cholera outbreak is a high probability in Nepal now, says Anuj Bhattachan of the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul, who is in Nepal.

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.

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.

In better years, the semitropical heat and aboveground sewage system led to outbreaks of cholera and typhoid so severe that gravediggers, unable to keep up, left hundreds of corpses to rot in the streetIn better years, the semitropical heat and aboveground sewage system led to outbreaks of cholera and typhoid so severe that gravediggers, unable to keep up, left hundreds of corpses to rot in the streetin the streets.

Yet some cholera scientists — including Rita Colwell, seen by many as a giant in the field — contended that the bacteria had more likely been present in local waters, and that the outbreak had been triggered by a combination of environmental factors.

The harsh reality is that waterborne diseases are linked to floods — and with cholera outbreaks reported in the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, this flooding event seems to be no exception.

In 1854 physician John Snow, one of the founders of modern epidemiology, traced a cholera outbreak in the overcrowded London neighborhood of Soho to a contaminated public water pump by noting how many cases of illness clustered around the pumIn 1854 physician John Snow, one of the founders of modern epidemiology, traced a cholera outbreak in the overcrowded London neighborhood of Soho to a contaminated public water pump by noting how many cases of illness clustered around the pumin the overcrowded London neighborhood of Soho to a contaminated public water pump by noting how many cases of illness clustered around the pump.

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.

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 Outbreak in Haiti: Invited Papers documenting the public health response to the largest national cholera outbreak in modern outbreak in modern history.

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

The intense global focus on the disease also was instrumental in accelerating the first meeting of the World Health assembly in 1947 in response to a cholera outbreak in Egypt.

Igor Domaradskij put it this way in the introduction to a monograph: «In prior years we were told so often that infections such as plague and cholera had been fully eradicated that outbreaks of cholera... caught everyone by surprise..in the introduction to a monograph: «In prior years we were told so often that infections such as plague and cholera had been fully eradicated that outbreaks of cholera... caught everyone by surprise..In prior years we were told so often that infections such as plague and cholera had been fully eradicated that outbreaks of cholera... caught everyone by surprise....

Through his consideration of responses to 19th - century cholera outbreaks in the United States, Whooley explores interplay among science, medicine, and society.

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

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

More than 10,000 migrating birds in the U.S. have died from an outbreak of avian cholera caused by reduced water flowing through marshlands of Oregon and California, according to federal wildlife officials.

Kitty finds respite from her subsequent boredom in the arms of diplomat Charlie (Liev Schreiber), an act of adultery the cuckolded Walter avenges by spiriting them away to a cholera outbreak in the middle of the country.

Watson, through the data, can identify that in some regions there is contaminated water, outbreaks of cholera by the contaminated water and no basic assistance, for example, or that due to their customs in these populations, the older brothers must remain in the care of the rest of the family, the elderly, and the other children.

China's dog meat trade also involves immense animal cruelty including poisoning to capture animals and beating them to death in slaughterhouses, and has been linked to outbreaks of rabies and cholera in humans, according to the World Health Organization.

Outbreaks of hog cholera and bovine tuberculosis in Colorado required veterinary and food - safety expertise.

More than 10,000 migrating birds in the U.S. have died from an outbreak of avian cholera caused by reduced water flowing through marshlands of Oregon and California, according to federal wildlife officials.

2016) Haiti was already weakened by the earthquake in 2010 and the cholera outbreaks that followed and thus the nation was less ready to cope with the disaster of a hurricane.

A lack of safe drinking water and sanitation results in frequent and sometimes deadly diseases such as diarrhea and outbreaks of malaria and cholera.

They started to talk about the cholera outbreak situation that Haiti is facing now and also the serious challenge of climate change in their countries.

2010 also brought history's most trying tests of nature and mankind with BP's catastrophic Gulf oil spill, the Chilean mine collapse, and devastating earthquakes, outbreak of cholera, and alleged corruption in Haiti to name a few.

I could start with Dr John Snow and the Broad Street pump during the deadly 1854 cholera outbreak in London as the introduction of clean water and sanitation.