Sentences with phrase «with cholera»

Glenn, G.M. Transcutaneous immunization with cholera toxoid adjuvant.

Glenn, G.M., Scharton - Kersten, T., Vassell, R.A., Mallet, C.P., Hale, T.L., Alving, C.R. Transcutaneous immunization with cholera toxin protects mice against lethal mucosal toxin challenge.

[274] As of March 2017, around 7 % of Haiti's population (around 800,665 people) have been affected with cholera, and 9,480 Haitians have died.

Roy, S. K., Hossain, M. J., Khatun, W., Chakraborty, B., Chowdhury, S., Begum, A., Mah - e-Muneer, Shafique, S., Khanam, M., and Chowdhury, R. Zinc supplementation in children with cholera in Bangladesh: randomised controlled trial.

The ideal glucose concentration used in Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT - for patients with cholera or other diseases affecting the GI system whose lives depend on absorbing water and electrolytes, but who may not have access to an IV)- about 7 grams of carbohydrates per 8 ounces of fluid.

Normally, within the llama, these antibodies would adapt to a new antigen (via a process called somatic hypermutation), but the researchers could not inject the animals with cholera and wait for them to create the correct antibodies.

And we look at disease that cause a lot of fluid loss through diarrhea — so, for example, take cholera and who dies with cholera.

A study published in PLOS NTDs examining the immune response to one of them in Haitian adults finds that while the first vaccine round elicits a strong cholera - specific response in the mucosa (the first point of contact with the cholera pathogen), the booster dose after 2 weeks does not appear to stimulate the immune system further.

«We interviewed people in focus groups before the vaccination campaign and they had very emotional stories to tell about their experience with cholera.

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.

Indeed, when a flight from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles stopped in Lima in 1992, it picked up some seafood infected with the cholera then making the rounds in Peru.

Neither cause long - lasting immunity, so children in countries with cholera aren't routinely vaccinated, meaning the market was small and not much was made.

Same thing with cholera, same thing with AIDS, same thing with TB, same thing with hunger, on and on it goes... I believe science — scientists and doctors and nurses — ought to be at the forefront of that rights - based charge.»

Tetracycline, the antibiotic of choice for most adults with cholera, has so far been effective against V. cholerae O139.

Not exact matches

In his tale, the other nations of the world unite and engage in wholesale biological warfare, dropping vials filled with scarlet fever, bubonic plague and cholera on Chinese cities.

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.

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.

This slideshow of Haiti's recovery efforts ten months after the January earthquake that killed thousands shows the island nation still living with debris and destruction, along with refugee camps and a cholera outbreak.

This slideshow of Haiti's recovery efforts 10 months after the January earthquake that killed thousands shows the island nation still living with debris and destruction, along with refugee camps and a cholera outbreak.

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

Also in India, a decoction of chile pods with opium and asafoetida was used as a cure for cholera, and tincture of Capsicum was used against malarial fevers, although we found no connection with quinine with that usage.

Other diseases treated with chiles include plague, where the Luo tribe of Africa applies the pepper leaf to the bubo; and cholera, malaria, and scarlett fever are treated by the simple consumption of chile pods in the Malay Peninsula.

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.

In cholera, zinc is used with the oral rehydration fluids to help reduce the amount of fluids needed.

An 1884 newspaper illustration, for example, depicted a skeleton disguised as a fruit seller offering produce to little children, suggesting that raw, unboiled fruits and vegetables led to cholera.17 The actual culprit, especially in such turn - of - the - century urban metropolises as New York City, with its inadequate, overloaded water and sewer systems, was most likely bacteria residing on the outside of the produce, or contaminated water or milk that happened to be ingested, rather than anything in the produce itself.18 Given the laxative effect of fruits and vegetables if consumed in excess, however, it is understandable that people assumed fresh produce might contribute to diseases with symptoms that included diarrhea.

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.

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.

Head of Vodafone Ghana Foundation, Nana Yaa Ofori - Koree said Vodafone is activating its various health platforms to drive a public health education campaign on the health impacts and risks associated with the floods, especially cholera and typhoid.

Increases in average temperature and rainfall were associated in Zanzibar with higher numbers of cholera cases within a definite time period.

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

«Plans for a cholera vaccination campaign planned in Yemen have been suspended based on a decision of the government,» Tarik Jašarević, a World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson in Geneva, Switzerland, wrote to ScienceInsider in an emailed statement, adding that the decision was made in consultation with Yemeni government partners, including WHO, which advises the Ministry of Health.

Cholera vaccines have had limited success: in 2000, a promising vaccine made from live, weakened cholera bacteria protected 80 per cent of the North American or European adults who took it, but a much smaller proportion of Indonesians, with protection levels especially low in children.

It hadn't reached the Caribbean before, so Haitians have had little experience with managing cholera, and no immunity.

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.

But Ford thinks that even with these limitations, «There's no reason at all we shouldn't be able to say, «This summer is going to be a bad hantavirus year» or «This season will likely have a high cholera risk.»»

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.

A typical visitor might find her way there via a Google search on «epidemiology» or «cholera» and then sample various versions of the outbreak map that Snow tinkered with over the years, or download a handful of PDF files that offer a comprehensive account of his public - health legacy.

Human feces is teeming with bacteria and parasites responsible for diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, and intestinal worms.

Instead, another bacterium the team looked at, a close relative of Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera, has evolved a motor with only intermediate power.

If Poinar gets cholera DNA from Pozzeveri, it will let him compare the Philadelphia V. cholerae genome with one from the same time but a different place.

It is a powder - blue plastic tube — much thicker than an ordinary straw — containing filters that make water teeming with typhoid -, cholera - and diarrhea - causing microorganisms drinkable.

Studies have shown shifts in cholera transmission with recent climate variability.

We are now getting a real sense of how cholera is moving across the globe, and with that information we can inform improved control strategies as well as basic science to better understand how a simple bacterium continues to pose such a threat to human health.»

«The phages clearly have gained the upper hand, and studying how they do it can eventually open the door for treating cholera with phages.»

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.

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.

The deadly cholera epidemic that rocked earthquake - shattered Haiti in 2010, claiming 8,000 lives and counting, has rallied the public health community to seek water and sewer improvements that, combined with vaccination, could prevent some 89,000 future cholera infections.

One study in the Journal conducted by researchers at the CDC finds that even relatively modest improvements — such as providing more latrines and community water pipes and disinfecting water with chlorine — could over the next two decades prevent up to 78,567 cases of cholera.

Blokesch's lab grew the cholera bacterium with different sugars (e.g. glucose, sucrose) and starch from potatoes and rice to see how each would affect the cholera toxin genes.

PAHO, along with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and UNICEF, recently joined forces with the governments of Haiti and the Dominican Republic to develop a national plan for cholera elimination.