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Sep 4, 2017 · Reviewed by: Jennie Kermode. "Bleakly realistic and shorn of romance of all kinds, Mountain Fever may be set in desperate times but many of the dangers it depicts are mundane realities in harsh environments." Think of the Alps in winter and you probably think of white, expansive spaces. Right from the outset, Hendrik Faller's Alps are painted ...
Sep 15, 2022 · Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a life-threatening tick-borne disease documented in North, Central, and South America. In California, RMSF is rare; nonetheless, recent fatal cases highlight ecological cycles of the two genera of ticks, Dermacentor and Rhipicephalus, known to transmit the disease. These ticks occur in completely different ...
Jun 1, 2017 · The disease was identified in Mexico during the 1940s and 1950s as the cause of multiple deadly outbreaks. •. Rocky Mountain spotted fever re-emerged in the states of Sonora and Baja California during the early 21st century, with approximately 2300 cases and 380 deaths by the end of 2016. •.
Feb 2, 2018 · Methods. We assembled 1155 geographical records of yellow fever virus infection in people from 1970 to 2016. We used a Poisson point process boosted regression tree model that explicitly incorporated environmental and biological explanatory covariates, vaccination coverage, and spatial variability in disease reporting rates to predict the relative risk of apparent yellow fever virus infection ...
Pollen is a common allergen that causes significant health and financial impacts on up to a third of the population of the USA. Knowledge of the main pollen season can improve diagnosis and treatment of allergic diseases. Our objective in this study is to provide clear, quantitative visualizations of pollen data and make information accessible to many disciplines, in particular to allergy ...
In the great epidemic of 1878, 16,000–20,000 deaths from yellow fever occurred along the Mississippi River, from the Gulf of Mexico to Memphis, Tennessee, and St. Louis, Missouri ( 4 ). Overall, at least 100,000 deaths were attributed to yellow fever in the United States during 1693–1905 ( 4 ). Within a few years after the discovery in 1901 ...
As with cases, south Asia had the highest mortality rates and highest absolute number of deaths, accounting for 69·6% (94·7 thousand [54·4–135·2]) of global deaths from typhoid and paratyphoid fever in 2017, followed by the sub-Saharan Africa super-region (21·6 thousand [11·3–38·1]; 15·9% of global deaths), and the southeast Asia ...
