Sentences with phrase «spreading cholera»

Aid groups in Haiti are optimistic that they can keep a fast - spreading cholera epidemic out of the capital city of Port au Prince.

Within days that single airplane spread cholera 10,000 miles around the whole rim of the Pacific Basin.

When fecal matter makes it into drinking water, it spreads cholera, dysentery, and even polio, continuing the cycle of disease and poverty.

Not exact matches

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

43 The Prayer Book uses it only of bishops; in monastic usage the tide «Father» for abbots, or for older, professed, or ordained members of the monastic family generally is ancient; in modern times it gradually spread, through the active missionary orders doubtless, to the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland; the heroic ministry of Charles Lowder and other priests during the cholera epidemic of 1866 in London seems to have started the common use of «Father» for nonmonastic Anglicans.

Added to this a cholera epidemic, exacerbated by a disintegrating healthcare system, spread across the country claiming hundreds of lives.

The Food and Drugs Authority says a change in Ghanaian attitudes towards personal hygiene and the environment will halt the spread of cholera.

So cholera quickly spread from the interior to the coastal city of St. Marc, and from there it overran the country.

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.

But in a cholera outbreak, many catch and spread the bacteria without getting sick, making it hard to tell who will still benefit from vaccine.

As a result, cholera has spread throughout Haiti, and as of 29 November, the outbreak had caused 1721 deaths.

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.

Or in the style of smallpox and cholera, it might kill quickly with explosive symptoms that can spread an infection to dozens of new victims within a day.

The discovery not only helped prevent the further spread of the disease but also constituted a major medical breakthrough — until then the scientific establishment had wrongly assumed that cholera was transmitted by air, not water.

By connecting distant places, meanwhile, globalization permits the long - distance transfer of microbes along with their insect vectors and their human victims, as evidenced not only by the spread of HIV around the world, but also by North American cases of cholera and SARS brought by infected passengers on jet flights from South America and Asia, respectively.

From cholera to bird flu, researchers are studying how diseases spread at such events, in the hopes of preventing a future pandemic.

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.

The risk from chlorine and chlorine - containing organic molecules in water is minute compared to the potential spread of cholera and typhoid,» she said.

The intestinal infection caused by toxigenic Vibrio cholerae can rapidly spread when human waste mixes with water.

The seasonal outbreaks might occur because cholera simply «spreads until there's essentially no one left to spread to.»

Recent genomic advances are contributing to our understanding of the emergence and spread of a multidrug - resistant cholera strain [78], for example, and helping to identify variants that might account for differences in host susceptibility to other waterborne infections such as schistosomiasis [79], [80].

The seventh cholera pandemic has heavily affected Africa, although the origin and continental spread of the disease remain undefined.

This phylogenetic framework describes the periodicity of lineage introduction and the stable routes of cholera spread, which should inform the rational design of control measures for cholera in Africa.

The current, seventh cholera pandemic (marked by a new strain of the bacteria) began in Asia in 1961 and has since spread to Africa and the Americas.

The dog meat trade also poses a threat to public health, with the World Health Organisation warning that the trade spreads rabies and increases the risk of cholera.

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

It says climate change could accelerate the spread of malaria, yellow fever and cholera — and while investment into education to ensure humans are more resilient to climatic shocks is important, there also needs to be research into the link between rising temperatures, water stress and the spread of those diseases.

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.

As it usually appears first at seaports, it would appear to be spread by mariners, but it only affects mariners sailing from cholera - affected ports.

At the medical clinic, staff members provide ongoing community training to help stop the spread of cholera and other life threatening diseases.