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... stylistic tricks. His chapters on the Irish Famine and on tuberculosis, are full of striking detail. Malaria, leprosy, syphilis, smallpox and the Black Death itself, all the grim scourges are here, as is AIDS. An interesting journalistic account of past and present ...

Published: Sunday 08 March 1992
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 748 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

50 Years Ago • DESPITE an almost unbroken series of military misfortunes, Britain's war position had improved ..

... as grim as life 300 years before. The lack of commodities, the evil quality of the beer, the prevalence of spotted fever, smallpox, and catarrh, the lack of money and trade by reason of the wars, the laziness of the farmers and the fact that a third of ...

Published: Friday 27 March 1992
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 280 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

Letters to the Editor

... too strong to deny. In this respect, no less than five vaccines are implicated in spreading the syndrome and include the smallpox, hepatitis, flu, measles. and polio vaccines. PATRICK J. CARROLL Lady Lane House. Waterford. to:: Mullaghmore Sir Mr. Noel ...

Published: Friday 27 March 1992
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 507 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

NALL CONFERENCE 3 FULL DAYS Mak Sopeawber 12 Smallpox NMI, NW lidoloy Min le Nom isiolipmat Well* • Mary knotti,

... NALL CONFERENCE 3 FULL DAYS Mak Sopeawber 12 Smallpox NMI, NW lidoloy Min le Nom isiolipmat Well* • Mary knotti, M.E.P. • Decks lkockhey, Merck Sharp 8. Doke • Charles Carroll, LM.L • Dr. M. Heckman O'Brien, A. 1.11. • Derek Keogh, Mr Plante • John A ...

Published: Tuesday 15 September 1992
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 77 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Across the ocean, a two-way traffic in plants, animals and diseases but Indians Pgrad k a a bin During the

... Tuberculosis and D . ysent . ry already existed in the Americas. But 01, Indians had never suffered from such diseases as Smallpox, Measles or Dipheia. What were Ship childrens diseases in Europe became mass His largest ship was a Caravel killers communities ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1992
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 189 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Section 2 (90 marks)

... improvements in health care: that brought about by a reduction in death rates. • vaccinations eliminated diseases like cholera. smallpox • better hospitals and clinics were built • people had better hygiene conditions due to improved sanitation facilities and ...

Published: Wednesday 18 November 1992
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 284 | Page: 47 | Tags: none

World'

... World' SCIENTISTS are grappling with a unique question: should the world's last smallpox be destroyed? Some 400 strains of the deadly virus sit in a locked silver-and-blue freezer in a government laboratory in Atlanta. A similar, smaller collection is ...

Published: Tuesday 08 June 1993
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

A world

... risen from 40 to 63 years; the number of children who die before their fifth birthday has decreased from 30pc to 10pc and smallpox, which killed more than five million annually a few decades ago, has been totally eradicated. BUT and it is a big but there ...

Published: Friday 09 July 1993
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 316 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

The quiet cult of the raging Sefit-

... happily. Maturin stitches up the sufferers, helped by the seven-year old Sarah and Emily. black Melanesians rescued from their smallpox struck tropic isle, and now blissfully content as surgeon's assistants aboard a man o'war. Nathaniel Martin, the official ...

Published: Sunday 25 July 1993
Newspaper: Sunday Tribune
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 626 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

Smallpox row

... Smallpox row HUNDREDS of top virologists failed to agree at a Glasgow conference on whether the last remaining traces of smallpox should be killed off. ...

Published: Thursday 12 August 1993
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 25 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

jokes not so funny now

... last remaining samples in a deep freeze under lock and key in laboratories in Moscow and Atlanta,in the United States. With smallpox officially long-eradicated the last natural outbreak was in Somalia in 1977. the stocks were to have been destroyed this ...

Published: Tuesday 17 August 1993
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 633 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

agency. Blonde and bubbly Audrey Nugent, (18) recently joined Elaine's. She says, It's fortunate for me that ..

... others argue the virus has genes worthy of further study which could have implications for subjects like cancer research. Smallpox is horrifyingly contagious. No-one who had been in the same room as a victim could escape the disease,it was once believed ...

Published: Tuesday 17 August 1993
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 433 | Page: 7 | Tags: none