Sentences with phrase «yellow fever epidemics»

It has experienced 27 major floods over the past 290 years (Kates et al. 2006), as well as nineteenth - century invasions, yellow fever epidemics, and twentieth - century drinking water pollution, and a declining population and economy (Colten 2005).

But recent years have seen a steady increase in the numbers of yellow fever epidemics, cases and deaths in tropical Africa, one of the disease's two traditional stamping grounds.

aegypti coincided with devastating yellow fever epidemics.

Given that outbreaks of yellow fever in urban settings have the potential for rapid spread and that significant yellow fever epidemics are ongoing in Angola, DRC and Uganda, a range of options for response by EU / EEA Member States are presented in the updated rapid risk assessment.

The Pelicans, who in their first year of play in 1870, as amateurs, lost to the Cincinnati Red Stockings 51 - 1, in 1887 issued first rain check in professional baseball (existing custom had been to take a fan's word for it that he had suffered from a rain - out), stoutly continued to play during raging yellow fever epidemic of 1905, stumbled on even when their home park was sold out from under them for a motel site in 1958.

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793.

II) and Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, about the Philadelphia Yellow Fever epidemic of the eponymous year, simply are engaging stories set in distant times and places.

Murphy draws material from primary sources, such as private diaries, newspapers, and books, to give insight into the political, social, and cultural challenges of the yellow fever epidemic.

His books include: «An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793,» published by Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; «Blizzard!

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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.

The vaunted doctor allegedly traveled to Bermuda in 1864 when an epidemic of yellow fever broke out.

Infants aged 6 — 8 months should be vaccinated only if they must travel to areas of ongoing epidemic yellow fever and if a high level of protection against mosquito bites is not possible.

«He had experience as an epidemic fighter on malaria, typhoid and dengue fever, and on yellow fever in the South.

In 1853 one in 10 New Orleanians died of yellow fever, an epidemic still considered the worst ever to hit an American city.

The cause of devastating human epidemics throughout history, yellow fever is still rife in tropical South America and Africa.

A lack of adequate sanitation and health care has led to recurring epidemics of cholera, malaria, typhoid fever, hepatitis, yellow fever, and aids.

The yellow fever virus (YFV) epidemic that began in Dec 2016 in Brazil is the largest in decades.

In the Americas, epidemic dengue was effectively controlled along with epidemic yellow fever in most of the region by the Ae aegypti eradication program that eliminated the mosquito from 23 countries during the 1950s and 1960s [2, 20].

I am a Preventive Health Officer who is greatly trained to prevent the Endemic and Epidemic diseases of the community such as Tuberculosis, Leprosy, Influenza, HBV, Tetanus, Poliomyelitis, Diphtheria, HIVS AIDS, Yellow Fever, Measles, Mumps, through immunization of their related vaccines.