Sentences with phrase «poor sanitation»

In many puppy mills, dogs are kept in cramped quarters with poor sanitation and unfortunately this contributes to illness and the spread of disease.

Poor sanitation in cooking areas, bathrooms, and public areas can lead also to health problems for residents.

I learned that over 80 % of the diseases in the world are caused by poor sanitation and that most of the people affected are children.

This reduces the chances of milk contamination due to poor sanitation practices.

Poor sanitation combines with a lack of safe drinking water and inadequate hygiene to contribute to the terrible global death toll.

Cats are, by nature, very clean animals and parasites rely on poor sanitation to get around.

There's also an environmental price to pay for poor sanitation.

ONE IN SIX PEOPLE lacks access to clean water worldwide, making diarrheal illness — a direct result of poor sanitation — the leading cause of death globally.

Poor sanitation kills 1.7 people a year worldwide.

Stop Stunting in South Asia documents three main drivers of child stunting in the region: 1) the poor diets of children in the five years of life; 2) the poor nutrition of women before and during pregnancy; and 3) the prevailing poor sanitation practices in households and communities.

Night time temperatures in the Rockaways have been freezing and many areas suffer from poor sanitation.

Worldwide, more than a million and a half kids under the age of five die every year from diseases that spread through poor sanitation or unsafe drinking water.

Antibiotic - resistant infections are on the rise, foiling efforts to reduce death rates in developing countries where uncontrolled use of antibiotics and poor sanitation run amok.

The nematode that causes the original infection exists in dirt on all continents except Antarctica, and it is most common in warmer regions, particularly remote rural areas in the tropics and subtropics where walking barefoot combined with poor sanitation leads to infection.

Gastroenteritis is widespread in developing countries, where poor sanitation enables rotaviruses — so - called because of their wheel - like shape — to spread through infected water and food, causing illness and diarrhoea in infants.

Waterborne diseases, such as cholera, are a significant global public health burden and are among the most important causes of illness in areas with poor sanitation [77].

But preparing meat diets that are not lightly cooked is not only a potential threat to pets whose immune systems are compromised or stressed, it is a threat to your whole family because raw meat and poor sanitation hygiene in preparing it are great ways to introduce antibiotic resistant bacteria into your household.

(ref) Since the same poor sanitation and environments that favor giardia seem to favor Tritrichomonas, it is conceivable that a cat could be infected with both at the same time.

Conditions of overcrowding and poor sanitation contribute to infection.

Life in the slums means poor sanitation, minimal access to safe drinking water and overcrowded schools.

But they did detect other bacteria total coliforms and enterococcus that are indicators of poor sanitation and fecal contamination.

Many people today still live in poverty and suffer from diseases caused by poor sanitation, contagion, and malnutrition that were much less common in the Paleolithic.

Severe overcrowding compounded with poor sanitation causes intense stress and spreads disease.

Communicable diseases, such as trachoma and tuberculosis, are linked to overcrowding and poor sanitation in living conditions.

88 % of diarrhoeal deaths worldwide are due to unsafe water, poor sanitation and insufficient hygiene, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Tropical diseases like guinea worm, trachoma, and schistosomiasis, which infect millions of people annually, are found most often in places with unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation and hygiene.

Hepatitis A occurs worldwide but is more common in regions with poor sanitation and lack of safe food and water.

Cholera is an intestinal infection that is caused by a bacteria called Vibrio cholerae which is found in contaminated water in places with contaminated water and poor sanitation.

Home conditions were described as bad (number of rooms, poor sanitation or water, etc.) in 28.5 % of control group and approximately 20 % of the intervention groups

Breastmilk is safe: it is always the right temperature, requires no preparation, and is available even in environments with poor sanitation and unsafe drinking water.

In a tweet, on his Twitter handle the Australian High Commissioner to Ghana Andrew Barnes called on the local government authorities to address the poor sanitation challenge facing Accra.

This debt is owed to sanitation service providers contracted by the state and until these debts are settled, the poor sanitation conditions will continue, according to, the sector Minister, Joseph Kofi Adda.

The ban was to help the country deal with the poor sanitation which is mostly as a result of littering of plastic waste.

There, residents live in cramped quarters, with poor sanitation, no running water, and no paved roads.

If there is poor sanitation or people are crowded together, those germs are likely to infect other hosts.

Poor sanitation can demand high environmental cleanup costs, and are a major drag on economic growth, notes Jaehyang So, manager of the Water and Sanitation Program at the World Bank.

By the World Bank's count, poor sanitation — and its subsequent contamination of water supplies — costs India some $ 53.8 billion each year (some 6.4 percent of the country's entire gross domestic product), not to mention untold number of deaths and illnesses.

Poor sanitation would have meant that disease was rife in ancient cities, but exposure to the pathogens would have led to resistance developing, which the inhabitants would have passed on to their descendants.

These worm infections are most common in tropical and subtropical areas with poor sanitation.

Sicker: Infectious disease, crowding and poor sanitation are common.

Hepatitis A, a liver - infecting virus commonly associated with poor sanitation, may be a guardian angel against asthma and allergies, says immunologist Dale Umetsu of Stanford University.

Outbreaks of infectious diseases in camps with poor sanitation and lack of immunization services burden the health of refugees and pose major obstacles to public health efforts, Dr. Mokdad said.

Guinea worm disease afflicts the poorest of the poor, those living in areas with poor sanitation and minimal access to primary health care.

An unprecedented study in Bangladesh could reveal how malnutrition, poor sanitation and other challenges make their mark on child development

Poor sanitation and crowded environments can cause explosive outbreaks of diarrhea - causing infections in the aftermath of man - made or natural disasters, sometimes with fatal results.