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What deadly disease cost many workers their lives before Dr William Gorgas found? Malaria killed many workers on the Panama Canal. However, when Dr William Gorgas discovered that mosquitoes transmitted malaria and yellow fever, he was assigned the task of eliminating this threat for worker through fumigation of mosquito infested areas. Malaria killed many workers on the Panama Canal. However, when DrWilliam Gorgas discovered that mosquitoes transmitted malaria andyellow fever, he was assigned the task of eliminating this threatfor worker through fumigation of mosquito infested areas.
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- DR ThELmA E. TuPASITROPICAL DISEASE FOuNDATION Tupasi, an infectious disease specialist, founded the Manila-based non-profit group and remains its executive director. The group provides services free-of-charge to patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) at the International Center for Tuberculosis.
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Sloths move so slowly that ALGAE grows on their fur - and it can be used as camouflage and food Researchers discovered the algae that grows on the majority of the six species of sloth is called Trichophilus welckeri, a species not found anywhere else. As well as a camouflage, the algae is passed from mother to child by the time the offspring is just a few weeks old.
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Holistic Doctors who Mysteriously Died Knew this âHidden Cureâ for Cancer and Autism Holistic Doctors who Mysteriously Died Knew this “Hidden Cure” for Cancer and Autism. A diagram of how GcMAF is said to work. Watch the video below for more info. Between June 19 and July 23 eight holistic doctors (at least five with connections to Florida) were found dead – each death unexpected and mysterious. It all started with the death of Dr. Jeff Bradstreet, a well-known autism researcher – killed by a gunshot to the chest.
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July 4: William Crawford Gorgas (1920) William Crawford Gorgas was the 22 nd Surgeon General of the Army and is best known for his work in abating the transmission of yellow fever and malaria by controlling the mosquitoes that carry them. His work in bringing the diseases under control in Panama allowed the construction of the Panama Canal and brought Gorgas recognition as a national hero. Prior to his death on July 4, Gorgas lay dying at the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital in London.
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Robert Koch and  Tuberculosis After Koch's discovery, many attempts were made over the years to find a compound that could stop the growth of TB bacteria. In 1910, a German scientist named Paul Ehrlich discovered a chemical that could kill the microorganism that causes another disease, syphilis, and effectively treat that disease.
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Semmelweis' Germ Theory Semmelweis' Discovery. During his job at the hospital, Semmelweis closely concerned himself with the study of puerperal fever causing high maternal and neonatal mortality. The Vienna General Hospital operated two maternity clinics-the first clinic and the second clinic for different classes of patients.uring a research on the autopsy of his friend who died because of a fatal dissection wound, Semmelweis noticed symptoms similar to those of childbed fever. This observation prompted him to connect cadaveric contamination with puerperal fever.
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William Crawford Gorgas William Crawford Gorgas. William C. GorgasWilliam Crawford Gorgas (1854-1920) was a pioneer in the field of public health and tropical medicine. His work in eradicating yellow fever in Panama made possible the construction of the Panama Canal.
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William C. Gorgas William C. Gorgas - References. ^ 1  The Great Adventure, Volume 4. ^ 2  Davis, Jr., Henry Blaine (1998). ^  3 Mrs. W. C. Gorgas, General's Widow, Dies. ^  4 William Gorgas, 1854-1920. ^ 5  Davis, Jr., Henry Blaine (1998). ^  6 Contagion, Tropical Diseases and the Construction of the Panama Canal, 1904–1914. ^  7 Public Welfare Award.
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Toxics on the Hudson: The Saga of GE, PCBs and the Hudson River The Saga of GE, PCBs and the Hudson River. Back in 1976, Jack Welch negotiated a settlement with the state of New York, which limited the General Electric (GE) corporations responsibility for polluting the Hudson River to $3 million.
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Bubonic plague In the bubonic form of plague, the bacteria enter through the skin through a flea bite and travels via the lymphatics to a lymph node, causing it to swell. Diagnosis is by finding the bacterium in the blood, sputum, or fluid from lymph nodes.lague is believed to be the cause of the Black Death that swept through Asia, Europe, and Africa in the 14th century and killed an estimated 50 million people. This was about 25% to 60% of the European population. Because the plague killed so many of the working population, wages rose due to the demand for labor.
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Unsung Hero: Ignaz Semmelweis The physician who discovered that doctors could save patients' lives simply by washing their hands. It is 1847 and the death rate among pregnant women in the obstetric clinics where the Viennese physician Ignaz Semmelweis works is high. Puerperal fever, which is an infection of the female reproductive organs following childbirth, is a common cause of death and is almost seen as inevitable by medics at the time. However, a worrying trend in the clinics which Semmelweis supervises in Vienna catches his eye.
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- One of the diseases Ehrlich hoped to cure was syphilis, which had reached epidemic proportions in Europe. Little did he realize it would be a 17-year odyssey before he would develop salvarsan, the first effective chemotherapeutic agent.Salvarsan was the 606 th chemical he tried.he 5th edition of Through the Microscope is now finished and available as a website subscription, as an ebook and as a hard copy from lulu.com. For subscribers to the 4th edition who are still using it, the book will stay available until May 15th, 2014. At that point, it will be retired. Thank you for all your support.
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Syphilis â Its early history and Treatment until Penicillin and the Debate on its Origins [3] The impact of gonorrhoea and syphilis on military personnel in terms of morbidity and mortality was greatly mitigated after 1943 due to the introduction of penicillin, as well as other factors such as education, prophylaxis, training of health personnel and adequate and rapid access to treatment.
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Tuberculosis in Europe and North America, 1800â1922 Tuberculosis, also known as “consumption,” “phthisis,” or the “white plague,” was the cause of more deaths in industrialized countries than any other disease during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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- transmitted yellow fever, thedisease was possibly the most feared pestilence in the western hemisphere. This finding, by Walter Reed’s Yellow Fever Commission, is credited with eradi-cation of the disease in many areas, through sanitation programs designed to eliminate the vector. Since this discovery, the mos-
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- Hi /hi/ [1 syll.] as a boys' name. Hi's root is Hebrew, and the name Hi means most noble. Hi is a variant transcription of Hiram (Hebrew): from Achiram. He is a common surname.
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- What deadly disease cost many workers their lives before Dr William Gorgas found a treatment?
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Surgeries He Focuses On: Ben thought that the carniopagus twins surgery was an once in a lifetime surgery, but it wasn't. On January 1994 he received a phone call from a doctor named Samuel Mokgokong, and he asked if he can go to Medunsa. When Ben Carson arrived the twins were sick and they would need months to recover. Ben knew that he was going to operate with doctors he barely knew, the girls got even more sick and the surgery was the girls only hope. During the surgery, one of the girls had a seizure and 2 days later died, one of the girls kidney's stopped working.
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A mass funeral then a watery grave: Rare picture shows priest praying over Titanic victims before they are buried at sea 'The wild Atlantic may rage and toss but far below in the calm untroubled depth they rest in peace'. Reverend Hind, Mackay Bennett's priest. The Mackay Bennet was a Canadian cable laying ship and the owners of the Titanic, White Star Line, contracted it at a rate of £300 a day to recover the bodies.
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tuberculosis Tuberculosis was popularly known as consumption for a long time. Scientists know it as an infection caused by M. tuberculosis. In 1882, the microbiologist Robert Koch discovered the tubercle bacillus, at a time when one of every seven deaths in Europe was caused by TB.
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Illegal Aliens Spreading Diseases Across USA It was brought in by illegal immigrants from India, Brazil, Mexico and the Caribbean. Leprosy spreads by infected illegal aliens working in fast food, dish washing and hotels. Chagas Disease is brought directly from Mexico and Latin America where it has infected over 18,000,000 people. The T-Cruzi protozoan destroys heart tissue and other organs. One can contract it by eating uncooked food contaminated with infective feces of the Vinchuca Bug.
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William C. Gorgas William Crawford Gorgas, 1854–1920, American disease and sanitation expert, surgeon general of the United States, b. Mobile, Ala., grad. Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1879. He served with the U.S. army medical corps after 1880.
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Louis Pasteur: Biography & Quotes Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist whose work changed medicine. He proved that germs cause disease; he developed vaccines for anthrax and rabies; and he created the process of pasteurization. bite from a rabid animal is very dangerous and often fatal. Pasteur examined the saliva and tissues of rabid animals. He was unable to discover the microorganism responsible for causing the disease. Today we know that rabies is caused by a virus too small to be seen with the microscopes available to Pasteur.
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- These days we have access to a huge array of medicines to protect us from pain, disease and death. But, as Michael Mosley has been discovering, the source of many of our more remarkable medicines have been deadly poisons.Take a look at this picture.any people pay large amounts of money to have it injected into their foreheads. It is botulinum toxin-better known as Botox-a toxin produced by bacteria first discovered in poorly prepared sausages during the 18th Century.
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Reverse disease with a proven therapy to eliminate life-threatening cancers and terminal liver disease On the next NaturalNews Talk Hour, Jonathan Landsman will be talking with Dr. Burt Berkson, M.D., Ph.D., published author and expert consultant to the Centers for Disease Control on alpha lipoic acid and liver poisoning, and the miraculous results he has seen from alpha lipoic acid therapy.