Cholera

...death from five of the greatest killers of children in the developing world: acute respiratory infections (pneumonia), diarrheal diseases (cholera, typhoid, dysentery), malaria, infectious and parasitic diseases (measles, whooping cough,...

In this article: Nashville, Alabama, Hiv/aids, Measles, Malaria, and Dysentery

...smelled to high heaven. Not death of the poor, but the affliction of the nose caused the sewer to be built. These days, the product of cholera, rice water stool, is sprayed with reckless abandon by conservatives on this debate. Let them see...

In this article: Joe Lieberman, Washington, Germ theory of disease, God, Medicare, and Evan Bayh

...mobility, when mid-19th-century pioneers heading west with dreams of riches and adventure were often stalled by such realities as cholera and stagecoach snags. The country's oldest nonsectarian nonprofit organization was formed in St. Louis by...

In this article: Travelers Aid, Washington Dulles, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Bryan Mullanphy

...water, the shifting rainfall patterns that accompany climate change will spread the disease to new areas where people are less immune. Cholera and the algal blooms that make shellfish poisonous also increase with temperature. More carbon...

In this article: Environmental degradation, Malaria, Climate change, Deforestation, Global warming, FLU, United Nations Foundation, Carbon dioxide, and Antibiotic

...of the training. In one exercise, a health clinic employee tells the U.S. development worker that medicine sent by Washington to fight a cholera outbreak is being sold off in the local market. "They will encounter these live exercises...

In this article: Afghanistan, U.S., Thomson Reuters, Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama, Small business, and NYSE

...developing countries. The GAVI Alliance, a global partnership, hopes to introduce it to 42 countries by 2015. Diarrheal diseases, such as cholera and rotavirus, kill 1.5 million kids each year, most under 2 years old. The children die from...

In this article: Malaria, Diarrhea, Unicef, GAVI Alliance, AIDS, HIV, Dehydration, and Rotavirus

...we know that HIV is not spread through casual contact and that infection is preventable. The same cannot be said for active tuberculosis, cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, infectious leprosy, diphtheria and other diseases that remain on the...

In this article: AIDS, HIV, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, United States, Leprosy, Diphtheria, Yellow fever, and Smallpox

...tool to lessen the burden of cholera in the country,' said G B Nair, Director, National Institute Of Cholera and Enteric Diseases. Cholera can cause its victims to expel massive amounts of water from their bodies through diarrhoea and...

In this article: India, US, Kolkata, Antibiotic, and Vomiting

Article Date: 05 Nov 2009 - 5:00 PST Cholera, an acute diarrheal disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, has reemerged as a global killer. Outbreaks typically occur once a year in Africa and Latin America. But in Bangladesh the...

In this article: Islam, Tufts University, Vibrio cholerae, Bangladesh, The Fletcher School, Bengal, Malaria, and National Institutes of Health

Washington, Nov 5 : In Bangladesh, cholera epidemics occur twice a year-in the spring and again in the fall. But the mechanisms behind these unique dual outbreaks are not fully understood. Now, researchers from Tufts University have proposed...

In this article: Islam, Bangladesh, Vibrio cholerae, Tufts University, Brahmaputra, Ganges, and Washington