though there are some exceptions. Primarily, conditions like certain forms of cancer, most types ofheart disease, highblood pressure, obesity, and Type 2diabetesare “contracted” from the way people live. Poor diet, lack of exercise, smoking, and excess alcohol, and in the late 2000s even ...
and mass migration of the Irish. OfIreland’s population of more than eight million, approximately one million (about 12.5 percent) died of starvation or famine-related illness, and 1.5 million (almost 19 percent) emigrated, mostly to theUnited States, as refugees from the destructive blight. ...
To determine when this trend began and to characterize longer-term trends in the United States, we examined US mortality records since 1900, when the federal government first began to track mortality data annually. Methods Sources of Mortality Data Data were obtained from yearly tabulations of ...
Diseases of men: Sexual health and medical expertise in advertising medical institutes, 1900--1930.This dissertation uses a once-ubiquitous medical institution, the men's specialist or advertising medical institute, to show how many different groups staked out ground around medical expertise in the ...
Columbian Exchange, the largest part of a more general process of biological globalization that followed the transoceanic voyaging of the 15th and 16th centuries, particularly in the wake of Christopher Columbus’s voyages that began in 1492. It profound
1999 Henipaviruses (Nipah) Virus Encephalitic disease carried by fruit bats that can be transmitted from pigs to humans 2001 Human metapneumovirus Virus Acute respiratory infections 2002 Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacterium First vancomycin-resistant S. aureus strain identified in the USA...
Since 2016, several yellow fever outbreaks have occurred in Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Brazil to cite a few10, raising major concerns about the adequacy of yellow fever vaccine supply. Four live attenuated vaccines derived from the live attenuated yellow fever strain (17D)...
For a total of 853 981 people born in the years 1900–1959, the distribution of the number of deaths according to the month of birth was compared with the distribution expected from the monthly numbers of all births for each sex and for the corresponding birth decade. For those born ...
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