Essays Tagged: "Dysentery"

Bottled Water

l microorganisms. Contaminated water can cause diarrhea and other stomach disorders that kill, like dysentery, gastroenteritis, amoebiasis, cholera, and hepatitis.Mostly, the bottled water that you bu ...

(4 pages) 193 0 3.7 May/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Diseases and the Immune System.

agnosis and treat the illness.Diseases include such things as measles, mumps, chicken pox, cholera, dysentery, hepatitis A and poliomyelitis. Many of these diseases can be dealt with by our bodies own ...

(3 pages) 78 0 3.7 Jun/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

A Bridge Over The River Kwai by Pierre Boulle.

nel Nicholson. The prisoners had to work from dawn to dusk in jungle heat and contend with malaria, dysentery, beri-beri and jungle soars. They only had six months to complete the bridge.Colonel Saito ...

(3 pages) 21 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

This is a description of the diease Amebiasis

Sometimes a person will be asymptomatic, known as luminal Amebiasis. More invasive forms can cause: dysentery, colitis, appendicitis, toxic megacolon, and amebomas. The worst form can cause: liver abs ...

(2 pages) 18 0 0.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Civil war

the results of disease.About half of those deaths were the results of internal disorders, primarily dysentery, diarrhea and typhoid fever.The other half died mostly of tuberculosis or pneumonia."(Medi ...

(2 pages) 15 0 0.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

Improving water utilities in poor countries

nated withguinea worm larvae and other deadly parasites. Children are dying of typhoid, cholera,and dysentery. They are going blind from trachoma. According to John Peet, Europeeditor for The Economis ...

(2 pages) 39 0 5.0 Jun/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies

Medical Care: The War Winner

is time is primitive and outdated. More than twice as many soldiers are dying of disease- mostly of dysentery, malaria or typhoid- as are killed in battle. Doctors do not yet understand the importance ...

(1 pages) 998 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Europeans And Slaves

ble food, which often resulted in malady after its consumption. These maladies consisted of scurvy, dysentery, and cancer. Other diseases such as seasickness, boils, and constipation also ran rampant ...

(2 pages) 1146 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Jamestown

ies was very unhealthy, the earliest Chesapeak settlers had to deal with diseases such as, Malaria, dysentery, and typhoid which took cruel tolls usually cutting ten years of the average life expectan ...

(3 pages) 24 0 0.0 Dec/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Marine Science

kidney failure and death among children or the elderly; but more commonly, astroenteric infections, dysentery, hepatitis, typhoid fever, and cholera. The reason for such bacteria in the water is pollu ...

(4 pages) 13 0 0.0 Dec/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Elie wiesel

ithout food, proper shoes, or clothing. In the last months of the war, Wiesel's father succumbed to dysentery, starvation, exhaustion and exposure. After the war, the teenaged Wiesel found asylum in F ...

(5 pages) 16 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Why did the United States Withdraw From the Vietnam War?

ime, diseases flourished which are not normally contracted in the U.S. Some of these were ringworm, dysentery, trench foot, and trench mouth.Clothing also did not last very long. "Clothing rotted and ...

(6 pages) 9594 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

The Importance and Influence of John Smith and Pocahontas to the New World

and as a result, many settlers suffered from saltwater poisoning which led to infection, fevers and dysentery. These conditions left most early settlers with disease and starvation. Furthermore, local ...

(5 pages) 31 0 0.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Alkalinity

After multiple tests, the water has been confirmed to have a pH of over seven. This could "lead to dysentery, vomiting, diarrhea." (Pereira). This high alkalinity has cause many establishments to clo ...

(2 pages) 2043 0 3.0 Jan/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

African Studies

rs in the Americas. A large number of slaves died on the journey from diseases such as smallpox and dysentery. Others committed suicide by refusing to eat. Many of the slaves were crippled for life as ...

(8 pages) 94 1 5.0 Jun/2009

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Death's Arbitrary Empire -- McManners

easants in time of paucity, and often caused the deaths of many from diseases like tuberculosis and dysentery.Also, the more status and economic power one had, the more likely it was the patriarch wou ...

(4 pages) 3508 0 0.0 Jul/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution

Discuss the Social Aspects of Health Issues Related to Poverty and DeprivationSubject - Health Related To Poverty

ch as malaria, pneumonia, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, influenza, diarrheal diseases such as cholera and dysentery, and respiratory infections are taking over the populations and killing millions of people ... n the UK, which consumes an average of 150 liters a day. Water related diseases such as cholera and dysentery are on the upswing. Kenya is one of the many countries with serious water shortage problem ...

(4 pages) 62 0 4.0 May/2010

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Bacteria Lab Report

(7 pages) 1 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology