Health Headlines - January 2
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U.N.: Despite Aid, Tsunami Survivors Face Disease Risk Tens of thousands of tsunami survivors are at risk from killer diseases, ...
Eco-News: 11.24.08
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The Centre of International Climate and Environmental Research has determined automobiles are the biggest climate change offende ...
Health Headlines - April 3
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Cancer Patients Exposed to High Radiation Dozens of patients at a cancer treatment center were exposed to radiation levels 50 pe ...
WHO | Cholera Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with ... Supplies: diarrhoeal disease kits. GENERAL INFORMATION ...
Cholera, disease information, NCID, CDC The National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID) has been officially reorganized and as a result its former divisions and programs have been realigned ...
Cholera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Author Susan Sontag wrote that cholera was more feared than some other deadly diseases because it dehumanized the victim. ...
WHO | Water-related Diseases After almost a century of no reported cases of the disease, cholera reached Latin America in 1991; however, the number of cases reported has been steadily ...
WHO | Cholera Cholera. Disease burden. During 2001, 58 countries officially notified WHO of a total of 184 311 cases (one third more than in 2000) and 2 728 deaths. ...
Cholera-hit Zimbabwe cuts water supplies to capital Cholera spreads through the water, when human excrement mixes with drinking water or food. The disease is a highly contagious, but treatable illness that ...
Tropical Disease Center Up-to-date information on tropical diseases, including cholera, dengue virus, Ebola, ... Bacterial tropical diseases include cholera and typhoid fever. ...
Khupe breaks down at clinic : The Zimbabwe Times MOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC) Vice-President Thokozani Khupe on Monday broke down after coming face to face with victims of the deadly cholera disease, which has claimed the lives of many in troubled Zimbabwe. ...
Zimbabwe Adds 1000 Cholera Cases As Lack Of Purification Chemicals ... Although cholera is very contagious, it can be prevented by washing hands, cleaning foods and making sure that drinking water is not near sewage. The disease, which causes diarrhea and vomiting that is so severe that it can kill a ...
Zimbabwe Anti-Cholera Effort Builds | OneWorld.net (U.S.) GlobalGivingThe disintegration of public health services, poor sanitation, high annual inflation, and the start of the rainy season have all converged to allow cholera, a disease described by the World Health Organization as "easily ...