Famines Past, Famine’s Future [PDF]
Famine, like poverty, has always been with us. No region and no century has been immune. Its scars—economic, psychological, and political—can long outlast its immediate impact on mortality and health.
Cormac Ó Gráda
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Historical epidemiology and the structural analysis of mortality
, 1992 Attempts to explain long-term variations in pre-transitional Western European mortality in terms of changing living standards have met with little success, and this has led to the view that such variations were biologically, or climatically determined ...
Landers, John
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Ischemic Hepatitis and Septic Shock Secondary to Murine Typhus Infection in Pregnancy
American Journal of Perinatology ReportsInfection with murine typhus may be associated with significant morbidity. With nonspecific symptoms and laboratory abnormalities, diagnosis may be challenging. In this case, a pregnant patient presented with complaints of fevers and myalgias.
Marissa Berry +4 more
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Need to increase awareness among family doctors and medical specialists of rickettsioses as an import disease in non-endemic areas [PDF]
, 2000 Brandenburg, A.H. (Afke) +5 more
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Infectious Disease Risks to Transmigrant Communities in Indonesia : a Survey in Lampung Province, Sumatra [PDF]
, 1981 This study was supported in part by funds provided by the Indonesian Ministry of Health and The Naval Medical Research and Development Command, Navy Department for Work Unit MR041. 05-0052.
Dennis, D. T. (D) +6 more
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[Endemic typhus imported to Norway].
Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke, 1997 Murine typhus, caused by Rickettsia typhi, is an important zoonosis in all parts of the world. The disease is transmitted from rodents to humans by fleas. In this article we describe the first three cases of serologically proven murine typhus imported into Norway during the 1990s. The patients were Norwegian tourists who had visited respectively Guinea-
M, Jensenius, A, Maeland, S, Vene
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Medical Care of American POWs during the War of 1812 [PDF]
, 2012 In 2005, a service in Halifax commemorated US soldiers and sailors who perished in Britain’s Melville Island prisoner-of-war camp during the War of 1812 and whose remains now lie on Deadman’s Island, a nearby peninusla.
Newfield, Gareth A.
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Mortality, Morbidity and Improvements in Water and Sanitation: Some Lessons from English History [PDF]
human development, water ...
Helen Bryer
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Scrub typhus islands in the Taiwan area and the association between scrub typhus disease and forest land use and farmer population density: geographically weighted regression [PDF]
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Living standards and plague in London, 1560–1665 [PDF]
We use individual records of 920,000 burials and 630,000 baptisms to reconstruct the spatial and temporal patterns of birth and death in London from 1560 to 1665, a period dominated by recurrent plague. The plagues of 1563, 1603, 1625, and 1665 appear
Cummins, Neil +2 more
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