Residents lived on meagre rations and in squalor, suffering epidemics of leprosy and other contagious diseases. |
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Within weeks of the arrival of the new inmates, epidemics of typhus, dysentery, and tuberculosis were raging out of control. |
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I do not mean that the recent phenomenon of substance abuse epidemics and passive welfare has turned good health into bad. |
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Only about 500 Ethiopian wolves remain in the wild, and the species has been ravaged by rabies epidemics at least twice in the recent past. |
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Well below sea level, it suffered from floods and devastating yellow fever epidemics. |
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Some Indian tribes experienced epidemics of measles and influenza, with infant mortality rates reaching 50 percent. |
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So children were dying in very large numbers from epidemics of infectious illness. |
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The disease is still endemic in many Latin American countries and large epidemics of rubella occur periodically. |
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Malnutrition combined with epidemics of diarrhoea killed tens of thousands of people. |
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The Roman Empire seems to have collapsed largely because of depopulation and epidemics. |
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From being a sporadic illness, epidemics of dengue have now become a regular occurrence worldwide. |
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Occasional epidemics of angular leaf spot, powdery mildew and charcoal rot or dry rot have been experienced. |
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Bear in mind that the viruses causing flu change annually and no two flu epidemics are identical. |
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When people are dropping like flies in plagues and epidemics, some actually recover, while others in their midst remain unscathed. |
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However, the scientists interviewed hoped that, by understanding past outbreaks, future epidemics might be prevented or contained. |
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But I understood that the fall of the Western Roman Empire was preceded by a population collapse due to repeated plague like epidemics. |
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About three-quarters of all British cases occur as isolated instances rather than as epidemics. |
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Two highly contagious enteroviruses are known to cause epidemics and pandemics of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis. |
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Influenza epidemics and pandemics spread rapidly causing a high degree of morbidity and mortality. |
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Influenza viruses cause frequent epidemics and periodic pandemics throughout the world due to antigenic variations. |
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The flood victims face the danger of epidemics of cholera, dysentery, malaria and other diseases. |
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Many of these regions also suffer from epidemics of other infectious diseases such as cholera and malaria. |
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Doctors there were seeing many cases of diarrhoeal disease and feared epidemics of dysentery and cholera. |
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Smallpox killed three of every four Hopis and later the epidemics reduced them to a few hundred. |
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Free and regular medical check-ups should be conducted in backward areas which are highly prone to these epidemics. |
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We had epidemics of staph and scabies, which we tried to heal herbally, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. |
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There was a major overhaul of the public health service, badly needed after recent cholera epidemics in the South. |
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This may contribute to the more frequent occurrence of severe epidemics there than in other countries. |
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Unless vaccine uptake improves rapidly, major measles epidemics are likely in the UK this winter. |
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You might say that there would be massive epidemics if we let people run around using products that were untested. |
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Government and health ministry officials try to paint a picture of the dengue epidemics as unpreventable natural disasters. |
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Relief workers say there is a high danger of epidemics because many bodies and rotting animal carcasses have not yet been disposed of. |
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But without an effective rural medical network, fighting rural epidemics would probably need double or treble the effort. |
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There used to be entire epidemics of milk sickness where people would be fine one day and dead the next. |
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There were no catastrophic epidemics but people were more susceptible to malnutrition and injuries. |
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Most epidemics are caused by lack of proper sanitation and safe drinking water. |
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What is required in the immediate is to save the lives of as many people as possible from hunger, thirst and epidemics. |
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While the world has been saved from epidemics of dread diseases, some of today's children are being sacrificed. |
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Pioneer historians were quick to notice that bighorn epidemics regularly followed the arrival of tame woollies. |
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While the tidal waves wreaked havoc, the death toll from epidemics caused by diseases such as dysentery, cholera and typhoid could be far higher. |
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So at the moment, touch wood, we have not got reports of epidemics, but it would be foolish for us to assume that we're through the worst. |
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It suggests that epidemics, like explosions and tsunamis, are of interest only if there is a body count to headline the story. |
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The resultant pop culture is as morbid and contagious as the epidemics they depict. |
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I prayed that they might be spared the ravages of Ebola epidemics. |
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Live bird markets have also played a role in the spread of epidemics. |
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Mosquito bites may be avoided by removing stagnant sources of water or by using protective clothing, repellants, larvicides, and, in cases of epidemics, insecticides. |
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The declining uptake of childhood vaccinations resulting from the fears promoted by these campaigns may lead to the return of real epidemics, causing death and disability. |
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Stated another way, geographic distance is a critical advantage in the world of epidemics, as well as in war. |
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The genes of these viruses produce new virus variants, including those with potential to cause epidemics in other animals, like minks, seals, swine, and humans. |
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The fact that we didn't see an outbreak of epidemics and disease like cholera or measles was partly due to the fact that people gave funds quickly. |
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Missionaries have warned of the danger of epidemics as the island's inhabitants are still sheltering in caves and have very little food, fresh water or medical supplies. |
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Fifty years ago, we were just beginning to learn some important lessons from natural disasters, epidemics, and manmade tragedies. |
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What will happen if bioengineering, cloning, global epidemics such as SARS and splitting of society into haves and have nots are taken to extremes? |
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Rest assured that only on rare occasions do epidemics such as bubonic plague in India and diphtheria in Russia present a much more widespread threat. |
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Barring miracle remission on a continental scale, only aggressive, coordinated medical relief, public health programs and public information campaigns squelch epidemics. |
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The epidemic peaked because contagious disease epidemics always do. |
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When abusive behaviour is deeply entrenched in our communities it is not the material destitution, the social ills and historical legacy that fuel the abuse epidemics. |
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The crusade against child obesity is likely to produce, not healthy outcomes, but miserable children and anxious parents and epidemics of dieting and eating disorders. |
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Combined with a shortage of food and medicine these conditions create the potential for epidemics of cholera, malaria, dengue fever and diarrhoea. |
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Cities as far north as New York, Philadelphia, and Boston were hit with epidemics. |
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In influenza epidemics, some churches suspend the giving of communion under the form of wine, for fear of spreading the disease. |
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However, researchers have proved it the perpetrator in at least two epidemics of food-borne illness and death. |
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The natives lacked immunity to these new diseases and died in great numbers in epidemics. |
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In the 1690s, smallpox epidemics reduced Yukagir numbers by an estimated 44 percent. |
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Both are credited with decreasing epidemics of cholera in their towns by implementing measures to prevent contamination of water. |
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One immediate consequence was a series of epidemics of European diseases such as measles, smallpox and tuberculosis. |
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The Black Death caused greater upheaval to Florence's social and political structure than later epidemics. |
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Salmonella epidemics in the spring and winter can kill large numbers of sparrows. |
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The Mandan were first plagued by smallpox in the 16th century and had been hit by similar epidemics every few decades. |
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Most of the details about the epidemics are lost, probably due to the scarcity of surviving written records. |
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These groups moved little until the close of the 18th century, when their populations were sharply reduced by smallpox and other epidemics. |
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The resulting flood resulted in the deaths of 26,000 people, and another 145,000 from epidemics. |
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Analysis of respiratory syncytial virus strain variation in successive epidemics in one city. |
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This eliminated the threat of cholera epidemics from the major developed cities in the world. |
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Economic development in the Early modern period was hampered by religious wars, conflicts with the English, epidemics, and storms. |
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These epidemics were less fatal due to a greater understanding of the cholera bacteria. |
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Despite the calamity and huge death toll, Lisbon suffered no epidemics and within less than one year was already being rebuilt. |
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Surveillance and prompt reporting allow for containing cholera epidemics rapidly. |
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In 2000, epidemics were reported only in the areas of Lake Tanganyika and Lake Mweru. |
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The epidemics had very different effects in different regions of the Americas. |
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New York experienced several yellow fever epidemics in the 18th century, losing ten percent of its population to the disease in 1702 alone. |
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During the Second World War the USSR pediatricians didn't allow epidemics of children infections being spread in the country. |
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Conditions under Oprichnina were worsened by the 1570 epidemics of plague that killed 10,000 people in Novgorod. |
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Mortality was particularly high among children, ensuring that the impact of the epidemics would extend to the next generation. |
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The 1988 and 2002 phocine distemper virus epidemics in European harbour seals. |
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Around four million of Poland's eleven million inhabitants died in famines and epidemics. |
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The population suffered extremely high fatalities from epidemics of European infectious diseases. |
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Encounters between European explorers and populations in the rest of the world often introduced local epidemics of extraordinary virulence. |
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As the native population was decimated by epidemics and forced labor, black slaves were imported. |
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During this period, more than 100 plague epidemics swept across Europe. |
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World War I and the subsequent epidemics had further impacts. |
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By 1804 when Lewis and Clark visited the tribe, the number of Mandan had been greatly reduced by smallpox epidemics and warring bands of Assiniboine, Lakota and Arikara. |
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The city is challenged by pollution, weak sewage systems, a weak storm drain system that led to massive floodings, heavy traffic, epidemics, and water shortages. |
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After the epidemics had already killed massive numbers of natives, many newer European immigrants assumed that there had always been relatively few indigenous peoples. |
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City, and later state laws, that upgraded standards for the medical profession and fought urban epidemics of cholera, smallpox, and yellow fever were both passed and enforced. |
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The displaced refugees fleeing the war compounded the effects of the simultaneous drought, and exacerbated war engendered epidemics, causing much loss of life. |
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The description of the Plague of Athens, like that of the Cough of Perinthus by Hippocrates, is an essential text in the philologic and semantic study of epidemics. |
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Despised lifestyles are now identified as noncontagious epidemics. |
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In epidemics, there are often extensive interactions within hubs or groups of infected individuals and other interactions within discrete hubs of susceptible individuals. |
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Encounters between explorers and populations in the rest of the world often introduced new diseases, which sometimes caused local epidemics of extraordinary virulence. |
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During World War I, typhus epidemics killed over 150,000 in Serbia. |
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The Health Organisation also worked successfully with the government of the Soviet Union to prevent typhus epidemics, including organising a large education campaign. |
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While in some epidemics infection is mild and rarely fatal, in others it is characterized by wide extension of the pseudomembrane and tends to attack the larynx. |
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A relatively common misconception is that a small number of conquistadores conquered vast territories, aided only by disease epidemics and their powerful caballeros. |
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This damage to the economy was compounded by the effects on agriculture of the incipient Little Ice Age, natural calamities, crop failure, and sudden epidemics. |
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During the early 19th century the River Thames was an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including cholera epidemics. |
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Identification of group B respiratory syncytial viruses that lack the 60-nucleotide duplication after six consecutive epidemics of total BA dominance at coastal Kenya. |
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