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New insight into predicting cholera epidemics in the Bengal Delta

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 epidemics occur twice ...





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Cholera outbreak reported in Namibia

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 12, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Health officials in Namibia say one person has died in a cholera outbreak in the Engela Health District, which has been compromised by floods.


Study finds that young children bear greatest burden of cholera

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 20, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study of the burden of cholera in three impoverished regions of the world, published February 20 in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, found that young children bear the brunt of the disease. The s ...


Sea levels could predict cholera outbreak

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created Feb 18, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

U.S. researchers have discovered changes in sea surface temperature in the Pacific Ocean are linked to cholera epidemics in Bangladesh.


1,156 dead in Angola cholera outbreak

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created May 17, 2006 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The World Health Organization reported more than 30,000 cases and 1,100 deaths from cholera in Angola since mid-February.


Scientists struggle to understand swine flu virus (AP)

Scientists struggle to understand swine flu virus

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created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

(AP) -- Mexico's health secretary may have thought he was allaying fears about swine flu when he suggested that the nation's swine flu death rate was 6 or 7 percent. In reality, that would mean a monstrous ...


'Women and children first': Men, statistics show your best chance is on the port side

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 15, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

If you were a man on the Titanic, which side of the ship would have given you the best chance of making it into a lifeboat -- and surviving?


Designing probiotics that ambush gut pathogens

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers in Australia are developing diversionary tactics to fool disease-causing bacteria in the gut. Many bacteria, including those responsible for major gut infections, such as cholera, produce toxins that damage human ...


Few people changed their behaviour in the early stages of the swine flu outbreak

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Few people changed their behaviour in the early stages of the swine flu outbreak, finds a study published on bmj.com today. But the results do support efforts to inform the public about specific actions that can reduce the ...


Swine flu origins revealed

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (14) | comments 3

A new analysis of the current swine-origin H1N1 influenza A virus suggests that transmission to humans occurred several months before recognition of the existing outbreak.


Chile ditches 90K turkey eggs in swine flu measure

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created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Chilean authorities say they have destroyed 90,000 turkey eggs since swine flu was detected in the birds two weeks ago.



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