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The disease is now endemic in possums across approximately 38 % of New Zealand ( known as ‘ vector risk areas ’).
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Perhaps the most illuminating example of the reduction of fear through understanding is derived from our increased knowledge of the nature of disease.
In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.
If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??
And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.
The electric gadget is most helpful when there are many crowned teeth and in individuals who are elderly, bedfast with a chronic disease, or are handicapped by disorders such as cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy.
The total adverse impact of disease, insects, fire, weather, destructive animals, and other forces on the uses and values of forest resources is not generally recognized.
In the 10-year period, it is proposed that insect and disease control on the National Forest System be stepped up to a level of prevention, detection, and control of insect and disease infestations that will substantially reduce the occurrence of large infestations toward the end of the initial period.
It is the exploitation of the inherent potential of infectious disease agents by scientific research and development, resulting in the production of BW weapons systems.
Even some of the queens will die before the winter is over, falling prey to enemies or disease.
He is confronted with the recurrent crises, such as great natural catastrophes and the great transitions of life -- marriage, incurable disease, widowhood, old age, the certainty of death.
With meat, milk, butter and ice cream, the calorie-heavy U.S. diet is 40% fat, and most of that is saturated fat -- the insidious kind, says Dr. Keys, that increases blood cholesterol, damages arteries, and leads to coronary disease.
In West Africa, for example, where meat is a luxury and babies must be weaned early to make room at the breast for later arrivals, a childhood menace is kwashiorkor, or `` Red Johnny '', a growth-stunting protein deficiency ( signs: reddish hair, bloated belly ) that kills more than half its victims, leaves the rest prey for parasites and lingering tropical disease.
What concerns him much more is the relationship of diet to the nation's No. 1 killer: coronary artery disease, which accounts for more than half of all heart fatalities and kills 500,000 Americans a year -- twice the toll from all varieties of cancer, five times the deaths from automobile accidents.
" But, " nostalgia is not a fatal disease.
In the Iliad, Apollo is the healer under the gods, but he is also the bringer of disease and death with his arrows, similar to the function of the terrible Vedic god of disease Rudra.
It is part of the field of biomechatronics, the science of using mechanical devices with human muscle, skeleton, and nervous systems to assist or enhance motor control lost by trauma, disease, or defect.
In third grade, Warhol had chorea, the nervous system disease that causes involuntary movements of the extremities, which is believed to be a complication of scarlet fever and causes skin pigmentation blotchiness.
The demyelination of axons is what causes the multitude of neurological symptoms found in the disease Multiple Sclerosis.
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis ( ADEM ) is an immune mediated disease of the brain.
disease and now
The research continued throughout World War I until 1919, when the now avirulent bacilli were unable to cause tuberculosis disease in research animals.
Other names have been used to describe this disease, such as " The Black Plague " and " The Black Death "; the latter is now used primarily by scholars to describe the second, and most devastating, pandemic of the disease.
Modern hospitals now have available spare parts to replace a part of the body that is badly damaged by injury or disease.
Chronic heart disease caused by Chagas disease is now a common reason for heart transplantation surgery.
It has two main groups: " straights ", now the minority, emphasize vitalism, innate intelligence and spinal adjustments, and consider vertebral subluxations to be the cause of all disease ; " mixers ", the majority, are more open to mainstream views and conventional medical techniques, such as exercise, massage, and ice therapy.
One key element is the Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme, which has advanced to a stage where large tracts of Asia and Africa have now been free of the cattle disease rinderpest for an extended period of time.
Scurvy is a disease now known to be caused by a deficiency of Vitamin C, but in Lind's day, the concept of vitamins was unknown.
Pasteur guessed the recovered animals now might be immune to the disease, as were the animals at Eure-et-Loir that had recovered from anthrax.
In contrast, it is now well-established that consumption of trans fats, such as those present in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, are a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
In the following decade, French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne gave a comprehensive account of thirteen boys with the most common and severe form of the disease, which now carries his name — Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Based on these experiments, he devised criteria for establishing a causal link between a microbe and a disease and these are now known as Koch's postulates.
In the past, MAOIs were prescribed for those resistant to tricyclic antidepressant therapy, but newer MAOIs such as selegiline ( typically used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease ) and the reversible MAOI moclobemide provide a safer alternative and are now sometimes used as first-line therapy, although these substances are not always as effective as their predecessors.
A simple yellow flag ( contagion ) | yellow flag ( also called the " Yellow Jack ") had historically been used to signal quarantine ( it stands for Q among signal flags ), but now indicates the opposite, as a signal of a ship free of disease that requests boarding and inspection.
The traditional view is that this was leprosy, but this was not mentioned in contemporary accounts, and is now disputed with syphilis, psoriasis, motor neurone disease and a series of strokes all proposed as possible alternatives.
Since the late 1990s, devil facial tumour disease has drastically reduced the devil population and now threatens the survival of the species, which in 2008 was declared to be endangered.
* British troops invade the island of Saint-Domingue ( now Haiti ) to suppress a slave rebellion but are forced to withdraw by disease and the army of Toussaint Louverture.
He and his crew land and are met by Hathaway, now old and suffering from heart disease.
" WNV is now the most common cause of epidemic viral encephalitis in the United States, and it will likely remain an important cause of neurological disease for the foreseeable future.
He suffered from a rare disease, an uncontrolled movement of the midriff, which is now named Van Leeuwenhoek's disease.
However, with modern testing advances to more safely rule out infectious disease and by ensuring that there are no incentives offered to participate, some have argued that prisoners can now voluntarily consent to organ donation just as they can now consent to medical procedures in general.
Driven to insanity by the disease, the vampires now reacted as they believed they should react when confronted with these items.
disease and endemic
Chagas disease in Latin America ( Endemic ( epidemiology ) | endemic zones )
Chagas disease affects eight to 10 million people living in endemic Latin American countries, with an additional 300, 000 – 400, 000 living in nonendemic countries, including Spain and the United States.
An estimated 41, 200 new cases occur annually in endemic countries, and 14, 400 infants are born with congenital Chagas disease annually.
Cholera exists as a seasonal disease in many endemic countries, occurring annually mostly during rainy seasons.
The World Health Organization ( WHO ) recommends immunization of high risk groups, such as children and people with HIV, in countries where this disease is endemic.
The deadliest disease was malaria, endemic throughout tropical Africa.
For infectious diseases it helps to determine if a disease outbreak is sporadic ( occasional occurrence ), endemic ( regular cases often occurring in a region ), epidemic ( an unusually high number of cases in a region ), or pandemic ( a global epidemic ).
The new sultan confronted insurgency in a country plagued by endemic disease, illiteracy, and poverty.
A widespread endemic disease that is stable in terms of how many people are getting sick from it is not a pandemic.
Measles is an endemic disease, meaning that it has been continually present in a community, and many people develop resistance.
* Lyme disease causes erosive arthritis and may closely resemble RA – it may be distinguished by blood test in endemic areas
Distribution of Rift Valley fever in Africa: Blue, countries with endemic disease and substantial outbreaks of RVF ; green, countries known to have some cases, periodic isolation of virus, or serologic evidence of RVF
Worldwide there are about 600 million people living in endemic areas and the official estimations of the WHO amount to 200, 000 cases of disease and 30, 000 deaths a year ; the number of officially reported cases is far lower.
Methods used to prevent the spread of disease, or to protect individuals in areas where disease is endemic, include:
In endemic areas Lyme disease may be the most common cause of facial palsy.
The fermentation theory of disease is the ( now obsolete ) concept that many diseases, including the diseases which were " epidemic, endemic and contagious ", owe their origin to the presence of a " morbific principle " in the system, acting in a manner analogous to, although not identical with, the process of fermentation.
Regions of Japan used to have endemic strongyloidiasis, but control programs have eliminated the disease.
Fewer than 200 cases have been reported each year since 1997, and the disease is no longer considered endemic.
The quinine was added to the drink as a prophylactic against malaria, since it was originally intended for consumption in tropical areas of South Asia and Africa, where that disease is endemic.
Practically, many natural wetlands are difficult to monitor as these areas are quite often difficult to access and require exposure to native wildlife and potential endemic disease.
The disease is endemic in some regions of sub-Saharan Africa, covering areas in about 37 countries containing more than 60 million people.
The French withdrew their 7, 000 surviving troops in late 1799 ; most fatalities had occurred as a result of a yellow fever epidemic among its forces ; the disease was endemic on the island.
Malaria was endemic in the marshlands of eastern Virginia during the time, and Cornwallis's army suffered greatly from the disease ; he estimated during the surrender that half of his army was unable to fight as a result.
As of 2009, loiasis is endemic to 11 countries, all in western or central Africa, and an estimated 12-13 million people have the disease.
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