Although the Romanians called Toma a strigoi (poltergeist), this was a typical folk way of explaining and fighting sickness.
According to a joint report, substantial progress in fighting sickness and death from infectious diseases is possible over the next decade with drugs, vaccines, and other strategies that are already available.
Garlic is considered to be good for fighting sickness because of enzymes that support your filtration system.
Zambia too has be lauded for its success in fighting sleeping sickness but a recent study, which investigated the state of health care facilities for sleeping sickness management in the district of Mpika, showed that even here, where infection rates are low, much could still be improved.
All 10 of us reached the summit, even two stragglers fighting altitude sickness.
Mr. Mandela did not clarify Mr. Mbeki's views on the subject, but told his audience that Mr. Mbeki was committed to fighting the sickness in South Africa, the country with the largest number of people infected with the AIDS virus, 4.2 million.
If the drugs will not work or are unavailable, and if the HG is so severe that the mother cannot satisfy her and her baby's nutritional needs, even with IV fluids, the only other option is a termination, a heart-breaking choice considering that the woman has already been fighting the sickness for some weeks.
Still, researchers who successfully conducted a trial of fexi in the Congo and neighboring Central African Republic last year are confident about fighting sleeping sickness in the future.
When you are stressed out, your body has a more difficult time fighting off sickness and keeping you healthy.
In the early 1980s, Dr. Pépin was a young doctor fighting a sleeping sickness epidemic at a hospital in Nioki, in what was formerly the Belgian Congo, then Zaire, and is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Slipping in the polls and besieged by international criticism over campaign irregularities, President Alberto K. Fujimori has been fighting off altitude sickness, putting on Indian garb and cutting ribbons across this Andean country in a flourish of pork-barrel politics.
