Sentence examples for epidemic of typhoid from inspiring English sources

When Heinrich Himmler came to visit Auschwitz on July 1 1942, to witness a gassing at first hand, there was an epidemic of typhoid fever.

A silent epidemic of typhoid that is resistant to multiple antibiotics is spreading across Africa, posing a fresh threat to public health, according to a landmark genetic study of the organism.

An earlier epidemic of typhoid and cholera had had New York and Philadelphia pointing fingers at one another, each claiming the other was responsible for the outbreak, both mortified that something so closely associated with the squalor of the old world would be blamed on their fair metropolis.

Dysentery and malaria were also common in Dawson, and an epidemic of typhoid broke out in July and ran rampant throughout the summer.

Data from the current epidemic of typhoid fever indicate a case fatality rate of 2.5%.

This epidemic of typhoid fever has continued for at least 3 years [ 7] and coincides with numerous reports of ongoing epidemics of typhoid fever in settings across Africa [ 7– 12].

Most major epidemics of typhoid fever have been caused by the pollution of public water supplies.

Epidemics of typhoid, cholera and yellow fever rage, as one commentator puts it, like hyenas.

They kept their water supply and their waste management far apart, and rarely had epidemics of typhoid or cholera.

Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929), a physician who served in the United States Public Health Service, fought epidemics of typhoid, dengue, typhus, and yellow fevers, as well as measles and diphtheria but it is his campaign against pellagra in the Southern United States for which he is best known.

The new Hän reserve, however, lay downstream from Dawson City, and here the badly contaminated river continued to contribute to epidemics of typhoid and diphtheria throughout the gold rush.