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Special sugar, nanoparticles combine to detect cholera toxin
A complex sugar may someday become one of the most effective weapons to stop the spread of cholera, a disease that has claimed thousands of lives in Haiti since the devastating earthquake last year.
Jan 18, 2011 |
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Scientists track source of Haitian cholera outbreak
Employing technology that reads the entire DNA code, researchers led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have pinpointed the source of a cholera outbreak in ...
Aug 23, 2011 |
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Cholera in Africa spreading at 'alarming' rate
(AP) -- An alarming number of new cholera cases have been reported in the West African nations of Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, an international aid agency said Thursday.
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Sep 30, 2010 |
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Cholera epidemic in quake-hit Haiti, 135 dead
A cholera epidemic in northern Haiti has claimed 135 lives and infected 1,500 people over the last few days, Claude Surena, president of the Haitian Medical Association, said Thursday.
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Oct 21, 2010 |
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Cholera outbreak creeps closer to Haiti's capital
(AP) -- A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts Saturday hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps of earthquake survivors ...
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Oct 24, 2010 |
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Haiti cholera likely from UN troops, expert says
(AP) -- A French disease expert says there is strong evidence linking U.N. peacekeepers to a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed more than 2,000 people.
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Dec 07, 2010 |
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Cholera outbreak kills 20 in Somali capital
(AP) -- Doctors say a cholera outbreak in Somalia's war-ravaged capital has killed more than 20 people.
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Mar 12, 2011 |
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Current projections greatly underestimate impact of Haitian cholera epidemic: study
Current projections regarding the eventual size and extent of the cholera epidemic in Haiti may greatly underestimate the potential number of cases, according to a report that will appear in The Lancet and has been releas ...
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Mar 15, 2011 |
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Study suggests UN force brought cholera to Haiti
(AP) -- Evidence "strongly suggests" that a United Nations peacekeeping mission brought a cholera strain to Haiti that has killed thousands of people, a study by a team of epidemiologists and physicians says.
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Jun 30, 2011 |
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UN probes base as source of Haiti cholera outbreak
(AP) -- U.N. investigators took samples of foul-smelling waste trickling behind a Nepalese peacekeeping base toward an infected river system on Wednesday, following persistent accusations that excrement from ...
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Oct 28, 2010 |
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