Sentence examples for malaria plague from inspiring English sources

Molecular mechanisms of evolution have produced differential resistance or susceptibility to infectious agents, including malaria, plague, smallpox, TB, measles, and diarrheal and respiratory diseases.

There is a very high degree of risk for major infectious diseases, including bacterial and protozoal diarrhoea, hepatitis A, typhoid fever, malaria, plague, schistosomiasis, and rabies.

They suggest that following the agricultural revolution which resulted in significantly decreased dietary iron intake, iron deficiency provided a survival advantage to those with endemic diseases such malaria, plague and tuberculosis [33].

Despite being a far less prolific killer than ever-present diseases such as malaria, plague is believed to have caused at least two pandemics with major demographic impact.

Other diseases that Koch investigated in Italy, South Africa, India, and Indonesia included malaria, black water fever (etiologically related to malaria), plague, rinderpest, and trypanosomiasis.

The European Centre for Disease Control is currently assessing the magnitude and importance of vector-borne diseases in Europe, focusing on Lyme disease, tick-borne encephalitis, leptospirosis, malaria, plague, tularemia, viral hemorrhagic fevers, hantavirus, and West Nile fever.

Riddled with malaria, plagued with piles and weakened by pneumonia, he had pulled out several of his rotting teeth using strong thread and a heavy pistol.

Denizens of the medieval world carried sweet-smelling spices in perforated containers called pomanders, believing they warded off the miasma that spread diseases like malaria and plague.

Pesticides are toxic material which acts not only on insect and other pests, but also against spread of diseases like malaria, typhoid, plague or sleeping sickness (Islam et al. 2007).

The pastoralists shared the highlands with sedentary communities of non-pastoralists, refugees from the plain, who had fled the hardships of the Ottoman rule and most probably of malaria and plague to create a material civilization as impressive as it was fragile (Koliopoulos 1981).

For example, rabies, malaria and plague have caused human mortality for centuries and have wild reservoirs (Baer 1991).