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Benzene-induced Cancers: Abridged History and Occupational Health Impact
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Benzene-induced cancer in humans was first reported in the late 1920s. Carcinogenesis findings in animals were not reported conclusively until 1979. Industry exploited this "discrepancy" to discredit the use of animal bioassays as surrogates for human exposure experience. The cardinal reason for the delay between first recognizing leukemia in humans and sought-after neoplasia in animals centers on poor design and conduct of experimental studies. The first evidence of carcinogenicity in animals manifested as malignant tumors of the zymbal glands (sebaceous glands in the ear canal) of rats, and ...
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Cholera epidemic after increased civil conflict--Monrovia, Liberia, June-September 2003.
Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
; ...was interrupted. In June, cases of cholera were confirmed by international nongovernment...indicated that as of September 22, a cholera epidemic was ongoing in Monrovia. During...a total of 1,252 cases of suspected cholera were reported (WHO, MoH, unpublished...
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Cholera: the reappearance of a vanished disease.
Newspaper article from: Medical Update
; Just two years ago, cholera infected more than 100 passengers on...positive stool cultures or antibodies for cholera, but did not develop clinical illness...diarrhea and had laboratory evidence of cholera infection. One died because of inadequate...
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Cholera Outbreak among Rwandan Refugees -- Democratic Republic of Congo, April 1997.
Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
; In April 1997, a cholera outbreak occurred among 90,000 Rwandan...established two referral medical centers and a cholera treatment center in these camps. Personnel...death rate than that observed in previous cholera outbreaks in refugee populations. The...
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Cholera strikes again with a vengeance.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...cistern, ``and that's why we have outbreaks of cholera.'' Since cholera erupted in Latin America in early 1991, sweeping...equine encephalitis gripping parts of Colombia, but cholera death tolls are far larger and disrupt more lives...
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Cholera hides sinister stowaway. (bacteriophage infects cholera bacterium)
Magazine article from: Science News
; Cholera has come nearly full circle, again. Beginning...its passage. In Latin America alone, cholera has claimed more than 10,000 lives since...needed to turn even harmless strains of cholera into killers. The virus-known as a bacteriophage...
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Cholera.(Health)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin
; ...across a newspaper article about an ongoing cholera epidemic in the Philippines. How serious a disease is cholera? Please write about this disease, especially...prevent it. Maria K., Tarlac City The cholera outbreak that has been hogging the headlines...
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Cholera Epidemic Threatens Survivors; Disease Spread Across Bangladesh Before Deadly Cyclone Hit
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; A previously unreported cholera epidemic that broke out across Bangladesh...publicly for fear that the taint of cholera - a water-borne disease that can...foot-high tidal waves, cases of cholera had been confirmed in 45 of the country...
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Cholera outbreak--Southern Sudan, 2007.(Statistical table)(Report)
Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
; Vibrio cholerae causes cholera, an acute infectious diarrheal disease...persons (IDPs) are major precursors to cholera outbreaks (2). In 2005, Southern...SS-FELTP) and CDC investigated a cholera outbreak in the town of Juba, Southern...
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The cholera epidemic of 2000/2001 in KwaZulu-Natal: implications for health promotion and education.(RESEARCH)
Magazine article from: Health SA Gesondheid
; ...2001 in order to make a comparison between health districts stricken with cholera and districts not stricken with cholera with regards to well-known risk factors for cholera. Random samples of 979 and 441 participants were drawn from health districts...
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Cholera epidemic associated with raw vegetables--Lusaka, Zambia, 2003-2004.
Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
; Zambia experienced widespread cholera epidemics in 1991 (13,154 cases), 1992 (11...Although no outbreaks were reported during 2000-2002, cholera remained endemic. Epidemic cholera returned to Zambia in November 2003, when cases of...
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