Word: cholera
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thousands of cholera cases alarm the Middle East...
...first cases were reported in Syria and were followed quickly by others in Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iran. By last week, almost the entire Middle East was in the grip or under the threat of an ancient and dreaded scourge: cholera. Thousands of cases and scores of deaths were registered, but the official figures in several countries were deliberately understated-for reasons of national pride, trade and tourism. Says Dr. Reinhard Lindner, a World Health Organization (WHO) communicable disease expert: "Cholera is the hush-hush disease of our time. It bears the stigma of dirt and ignorance...
...announced 314 cases, Saudi Arabia 17. Israel had three, all West Bank residents, one of whom had traveled to Jordan. While Turkey remained silent about the disease within its borders, a woman who had just arrived in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, from the Turkish city of Erzurum was hospitalized with cholera. The four other cases in Europe also involved victims who had been traveling in either Turkey or Iraq. Opposition politicians in Turkey accused the Ankara government of hiding the news that 34 children had died of cholera...
...upon his church the importance of the material world. He lived through 23 turbulent years of Chinese history, yet knew few Chinese and, the Lukases report, never learned a word of their language. In 1937, while observing from the deck of a ship Chinese cities ravaged by fire and cholera, he completed his most optimistic essay (Human Energy) on mankind's prospects. When he learned that the Piltdown Man find-in which he had played a minor role-was a well-planned hoax, he preferred to suppose that "someone innocently threw the bone fragments from a neighborhood cottage into...
...small fraction of all bacterial species can cause disease. The rest play essential roles in the cycle of nature. Infectious bacteria differ from each other in several distinct respects: infectivity (i.e., the infectious does, ranging from a few cells of the tularemia bacillus to around 10-6 of the cholera vibrio); specific distribution in the body; virulence (i.e., the severity of the disease produced); and communicability from one individual host to another. These attributes depend on the coordinate activity of many genes, which are capable of independent variation. For our discussion the distinction between the ability to produce a serious...