The Mummies of Guanajuato are a number of naturally mummified bodies interred during a cholera outbreak around Guanajuato, Mexico in 1833. (thevintagenews.com)
What started a month ago as isolated diarrhoea cases in the rural Artibonite valley has turned into a nationwide cholera outbreak, with more than 1,000 new cases daily. (herokuapp.com)
As a cholera outbreak courses through Lusaka, Zambia's capital, health officials also struggle to limit the spread of false information. (globalpressjournal.com)
Those myths are especially problematic now, as Zambia is battling a cholera outbreak that began in February. (globalpressjournal.com)
An official from the Lusaka City Council's Public Health and Social Services Department disinfects the feet of a child who went to a pit latrine barefoot in Bauleni compound, where there's a cholera outbreak. (globalpressjournal.com)
U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths told the Geneva briefing that Libya needed equipment to find people trapped in sludge and damaged buildings after the floods as well as primary health care to prevent a cholera outbreak among survivors. (alwasat.ly)
Epidemic6
This wasn't surprising -- people tend to do that -- but between a booming population and a cholera epidemic , the bodies were really starting to pile up. (cracked.com)
By August 1834, the burials at Russell Street Cemetery were numerous because Detroit was in the throes of a second cholera epidemic , which killed an eighth of the city's population. (detroitbookfest.com)
A cholera epidemic broke out in the fall, and in its midst a dysfunctional election was held, its results still unclear. (phibetaiota.net)
In the 14th century AD, during the siege of Kaffa (now Feodosia, Ukraine) the attacking Mongol force hurled the corpses of those who died of plague into the city to attempt to inflict a plague epidemic upon the enemy. (medscape.com)
Typhus2
More recent studies have suggested this was typhus based on the examination of corpses. (aao.org)
Weakened and emaciated, many were already ill with cholera and typhus as they traveled on to Montreal, Kingston, Ottawa and the U.S. border at Detroit. (vdare.org)
Cholera epidemics hit Detroit hard in 1832 and 1834 and "congested the graveyards," (Burton, page 969). (detroitbookfest.com)
Sewage2
The sea and water bodies are constantly polluted with garbage, sewage and 'corpse' waters. (ladbible.com)
Some of the roaches' favorite places to hide include pipes containing raw sewage, garbage receptacles, and dead corpses. (pestcontrolsolutionsinc.com)
Bodies3
Dead bodies only pose health risks in a few situations that require specific precautions, such as deaths from cholera ( 5 ) or hemorrhagic fevers ( 6 ). (cdc.gov)
Below is a collection of stories about corpses that eschewed tradition, from crash test dummies to bodies that became drug paraphernalia. (listverse.com)
The bodies of victims of trauma from natural disasters "almost never" posed a health threat, it said, unless they were in or near fresh water supplies since corpses may leak excrement. (com.bd)
City's1
Outside the gate of the cholera clinic at the city's main hospital lay a teenage girl in a peach T-shirt and khaki shorts. (herokuapp.com)
Smallpox2
Cholera, consumption, smallpox…death had many names and predictable results: widows and widowers usually found another partner and remarried, sometimes more than once. (shiachat.com)
In January 1876, William Osler, a young Canadian physi- delivered the corpse of a smallpox victim recently buried cian, was recovering from a mild case of smallpox con- to the dissecting laboratory and intentionally infected tracted while attending patients at Montreal General many anatomy students (5). (cdc.gov)
Fears1
He said there were fears waterborne diseases would spread, but no cholera had been recorded so far. (com.bd)
Excrement1
This was repeated in 1422 during the Hussite wars in Bohemia at the seige of Karlstejn (now in the Czech Republic) when invading forces hurled plague-striken corpses, dead cows, and 2000 cartloads of excrement at enemy troops. (medscape.com)
Victim1
The museum is known to have the smallest mummy in the world, a fetus from a pregnant woman who fell victim to cholera. (thevintagenews.com)
Survivors1
Cholera survivors in Zambia say their lives are difficult because of the stigma associated with the disease. (globalpressjournal.com)
Rubble2
Residents and rescue workers in the devastated Libyan city of Derna are struggling to cope with the thousands of corpses washing up or decaying under rubble, after a flood that smashed down buildings and swept people to sea. (wn.com)
Summer heat has accelerated the decomposition of thousands of corpses under the rubble. (ladbible.com)
Mummies1
The museum, containing at least 108 corpses, is located above the spot where the mummies were first discovered. (thevintagenews.com)
Plague2
Mongols catapulted corpses of Mongol warriors who had died of the plague into the city. (aao.org)
This feat of engineering would come at great cost to many-diseases like yellow fever, malaria, and cholera plagued the workers, and thousands died. (listverse.com)
However, the case is different with deaths resulting from infectious diseases such as Ebola, Marburg or cholera, or if disaster strikes in an area where infectious diseases are endemic. (aawsat.com)
He also informed that 98% of the vultures are already extinct even before the incident, but even the loss of these vultures will affect the natural recycling of corpses and prevention of diseases like cholera and rabies in that area. (nepallivetoday.com)
Refuse2
So began Charles Dickens' last completed novel Our Mutual Friend (1864-65) - with a pair of "toshers," a father-daughter team of scavengers who waded into the fouled waters of the River Thames looking for corpses (and other refuse) and the coin they might find from dead souls to take from them the boatman's toll. (counter-currents.com)
Ibrahim al-Arabi, health minister in Libya's Tripoli-based western government, told Reuters he was certain groundwater was polluted with water mixed up with corpses, dead animals, refuse and chemical substances. (com.bd)
Pose1
This means that corpses pose a "negligible" health risk. (aawsat.com)
Deaths1
Researchers have also estimated there are 1.3 to four million cholera cases every year and 21,000 to 143,000 deaths worldwide due to the disease. (ladbible.com)
Infectious1
In the event of unusual thawing and flooding, the concern was that these corpses might become exposed and release infectious virus into the environment. (cdc.gov)
People4
But how were people supposed to get corpses all the way to the suburbs ? (cracked.com)
But the idea that corpses can spread disease is a misunderstanding which often "pushes people to hastily bury the dead and make it more likely that people will go missing, leaving their loved ones in anguish for years to come," said Bilal Sablouh, regional forensics advisor for Africa at the International Committee of the Red Cross. (aawsat.com)
Even after cholera patients recover, people in their communities stay away from them because of misconceptions about how the disease spreads. (globalpressjournal.com)
Casual contact with a cholera patient isn't a risk factor for the disease, according to that U.S. agency, but people who contract severe cases of the disease can die within hours if they're not treated. (globalpressjournal.com)
DEAD2
On board lay hundreds of dead, destitute women men and children, many of them dying of cholera. (vdare.org)
FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2010 file photo, an ambulance worker prepares to remove the corpse of a man lying dead in a portable bathroom of a refugee camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (phibetaiota.net)
Officials1
NBC reports that while speaking on a Ukrainian television program, the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petro Andryushchenko , said the word 'cholera' isn't only coming from government officials but inside the city as well. (ladbible.com)
Spread1
According to a 2013 UNICEF publication, the spread of cholera can be stopped if infected fecal matter isn't ingested orally. (globalpressjournal.com)
News1
For info about the death of Neda, see http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and- updates/news/iran-stop-using-basij-militia-to- police-demonstrations-20090622. (caltech.edu)
Idea1
Mankind has been taken with the idea of preserving corpses. (listverse.com)
Year1
Mary Phiri sits with her 3-year-old daughter, Adinas Tembo, who recovered from cholera but faces intense stigma from her community. (globalpressjournal.com)
Back1
Cholera patients throughout Zambia are quarantined in designated treatment centers and only allowed back to their communities when they are fully recovered, says Dr. Gideon Zulu, the district medical officer for Lusaka. (globalpressjournal.com)
Water1
Priority areas are shelter, food, key primary medical care because of the worry of cholera, the worry of lack of clean water," Griffiths said. (alwasat.ly)
Search1
The search for the identity of the corpse, and the killer, takes them to the gates of Blackwater Hall, home to the secretive, and corrupt Mortmain family. (foyles.co.uk)
Blue1
Dreaded more than the Devil himself, cholera - the 'blue death' - spares no one. (foyles.co.uk)
Stories1
It is the latest chapter in one of the more tangled stories of an American presidential corpse - a tale of love and cholera, betrayal and real estate, honor and probate law. (historynewsnetwork.org)
Century1
A century ago, death regularly transformed a new mother to a corpse in the blink of an eye. (shiachat.com)
Treatment1
With timely treatment most cholera victims survive, but poverty, fear and a destroyed infrastructure mean many Haitians seek help late, if at all. (herokuapp.com)
Medical1
Keeping their eye on the bottom line, they pickled many of the corpses and sold them off to medical schools for experimentation. (listverse.com)
Mother1
Since Adinas recovered from cholera in March, she and her mother have been shunned by their Lusaka community. (globalpressjournal.com)
Town2
Exhumations of graves in town cemetary revealed extensive mineralization & mummification of corpses. (beyondweird.com)
Prior to 1849, Eyemouth was a busy fishing town of around 1,400 inhabitants, boasting a notorious smuggling heritage, yet all that was to change in a matter of six weeks when 'King Cholera' decided to pay a visit. (mymacabreroadtrip.com)