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yellow fever
yellow fever acute infectious disease endemic in tropical Africa and many areas of South America. Epidemics have extended into subtropical and temperate regions during warm seasons. In 1878 a severe outbreak in the Mississippi Valley killed about 20,000; the last epidemic in the United States... Read more |
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Paratyphoid Fever
Paratyphoid Fever Definition Paratyphoid fever, which is sometimes called Salmonella paratyphi infection, is a serious contagious disease caused by a gram-negative bacterium. It is also grouped together with typhoid fever under the name enteric fever. Description Enteric fever is... Read more |
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Relapsing fever
Relapsing Fever Definition Relapsing fever refers to two similar illnesses, both of which cause high fevers. The fevers resolve, only to recur again within about a week. Description Relapsing fever is caused by spiral-shaped bacteria of the genus Borrelia. This bacterium lives in rodents and... Read more |
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glandular fever
glandular fever (glan-dew-ler) n. an infectious disease, caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, that affects the lymph nodes in the neck, armpits, and groin; it mainly affects adolescents and young adults. Symptoms include swelling and tenderness of the lymph nodes, fever, headache, a sore throat,... Read more |
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Swine Fever
Swine fever Swine fever is a viral disease that afflicts swine. The disease is also known as hog cholera. A related form of the disease is called African swine fever. The virus that causes swine fever is a member of the family Flaviviridae and the genus Pestivirus. A virus causes African swine... Read more |
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Hemorrhagic Fevers
Hemorrhagic Fevers Definition Hemorrhagic fevers are caused by viruses that exist throughout the world. However, they are most common in tropical areas. Early symptoms, such as muscle aches and fever, can progress to a mild illness or to a more debilitating, potentially fatal disease. In severe... Read more |
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Parrot Fever
Parrot Fever Definition Parrot fever is a rare infectious disease that causes pneumonia in humans. It is transmitted from pet birds or poultry. The illness is caused by a chlamydia, which is a type of intracellular parasite closely related to bacteria. Parrot fever is also called chlamydiosis,... Read more |
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fever
fever elevation of body temperature above the normal level, which in humans is about 98°F (37°C) when measured orally. Fever is considered to be a symptom of a disorder rather than a disease in itself. Under normal conditions the heat that is generated by the burning of food by the body is... Read more |
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rheumatic fever
rheumatic fever , systemic inflammatory disease, extremely variable in its manifestation, severity, duration, and aftereffects. It is frequently followed by serious heart disease, especially when there are repeated attacks. Rheumatic fever usually affects children. It is closely related to a... Read more |
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scarlet fever
scarlet fever or scarlatina, an acute, communicable infection, caused by group A hemolytic streptococcal bacteria (see streptococcus ) that produce an erythrogenic toxin. The disease is now uncommon, probably because antibiotic therapy has lessened the likelihood of spread. It occurs in young... Read more |
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Lee, Spike
...meditation on urban racism in the USA. After the jazz film Mo' Better Blues (1990), Lee made the controversial Jungle Fever (1991), another piece on racial integration. Other films include Malcolm X (1992), Clockers (1996), Summer... |
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Sick over jungle fever ; Perspective; A new interracial-dating `guide' leaves...
...and the classically taboo "Jungle Fever." After decades in...The book offers no "vanilla fever" chapter - a curious omission...Stevie Wonder's "Jungle Fever" while writing this story...actually a song called `Jungle ... |
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Jungle Fever.
Spike Lee's new film, Jungle Fever, begins on Striver's Row in Harlem...later and a couple of blocks away, Jungle Fever concludes with Dickerson's...addicted to crack. If you were to reduce Jungle Fever to its dialogue, you ... |
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`Jungle Fever' is brilliant at the edges
Jungle Fever (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) 1/2 Flipper...R. Opening today at local theaters. `Jungle Fever" is Spike Lee's term for unhealthy...the lovers themselves. The victims of "Jungle Fever" are Wesley Snipes as Flipper, an... |
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`Jungle Fever' captures Cannes
CANNES, France Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival...romance for the wrong reasons - "jungle fever," the erotic fascination...community. Like all of Lee's films, "Jungle Fever" combines strong ... |
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JUNGLE FEVER
...Bergen County, NJ) 07-14-1997 JUNGLE FEVER -- BRENDAN FRASER HEATS UP A CARTOON...in Walt Disney's "George of the Jungle," opening nationwide on Wednesday...cartoon about a klutzy king of the jungle. "One of our highest testing segments... |
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Shakespeare Jungle Fever: National-Imperial Re-Visions of Race, Rape, and...
...Arthur Little Jr.'s Shakespeare Jungle Fever: National-Imperial Re-Visions...the book. After explaining that "jungle fever," the title of a Spike Lee...Little says that he wishes to use jungle fever "to point less to an ... |
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HEAT AND LIGHT Hot issues, rich humor are a powerful potion in Lee's `Jungle...
JUNGLE FEVER Directed and written by: Spike Lee Starring...strong language, drug content, violence) "Jungle Fever" is Spike Lee's best film yet...Right now, though, it's enough that "Jungle Fever" lives in the urban present ... |
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Jungle fever hits Hungary, Czech Republic
...New Straits Times 06-19-2005 Jungle fever hits Hungary, Czech RepublicByline...first ever foray into a tropical jungle. But they will be coming with a...in neighbouring Czech Republic, "jungle fever" is also very high. At the... |
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`Jungle Fever': Topical Storm
IN "JUNGLE Fever," Spike Lee's still in charge. Once...embellishment on a poor idea. The structure in "Jungle" ultimately breaks down. Although Lee...of "Mo' Better Blues," he brings "Jungle" to an anticlimactic halt. He also includes... |
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Surviving a Supreme case of `Jungle Fever'
...subject of his pungent summer movie, "Jungle Fever." That was art, everyone agreed at...exemplary conversion to virtue; - a "Jungle Fever" T-shirt showing a black hand...the river before a cure is found for Jungle Fever. |
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