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5. medicine & health: 1. diseases: Diseases: Infectious diseases: Plague:
BBC 00408.txt
The Black death, a bubonic plague during the Middle ages caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, killed 30%-60%of Europeans (80%of people in the south of France and Spain) and reduced global population from 450 million to around 350 million.
In some countries witch hunts rooting out the unknown cause of the plague resulted in minority groups being massacred,
For plague survivors life generally improved, especially for those at the bottom of the ladder.
The Black death also had an environmental impact oe loss of agricultural activity allowed forests to regrow,
BBC 00799.txt
In the Galapagos, plagues of blackberry bushes originally from The himalayas are simply being controlled, whereas rats and goats that eat the food of rare tortoises are being eliminated.
BBC 00985.txt
Technology and innovation has saved already us from plagues, low crop yields, water shortages, reliance on fossil fuels and more.
impactlab_2010 01547.txt
and places in the story a description of the Mayfair neighborhood in London where the protagonists live or a history of the Black death plague,
impactlab_2012 00021.txt
Mr. Sechler swears by the concoction as a way to fight off bacterial diseases that plague meat
impactlab_2013 01433.txt
the ash trees die#over 100 million since the plague began. In some cases, their death has an immediate impact,
Livescience_2013 01276.txt
and would intervene on behalf of his people discouraging the gods from sending plagues or skipping the life-giving Nile floods.
Livescience_2013 01507.txt
But China's increasingly restive population of 1. 3 billion people is now starting to demand government action to combat the deadly plagues of pollution
Livescience_2013 03198.txt
. when the Athenians who were packed behind their city walls during a Spartan attack suffered a plague that killed many people including their leader Pericles.
Livescience_2013 03919.txt
#Israel Escapes Locust Plague For Now MITZPE RAMON Israel A menacing swarm of locusts that entered southern Israel earlier this week has been largely smitten according to the Israeli government and local reports.
According to the Bible swarms of locusts were the eighth plague sent into ancient Egypt as a punishment for suppressing the Jews said Hendrik Bruins a researcher who studies the archaeology and environmental aspects of desert peoples at Israel's Ben-Gurion
But could the plague be a divine punishment this time around? This we cannot say Bruins told Livescience.
Because there have been so many plagues throughout history not every locust plague can be classified in that way he said laughing.
Livescience_2013 04657.txt
#Mysterious Elk Deaths Plague New mexico Officials with the New mexico Department of Game and Fish are puzzling over the mysterious deaths of more than 100 elk apparently all within a 24-hour period in rural New mexico.
Livescience_2013 05209.txt
Food insecurity plagues one-third of households two-thirds for female-headed households. People are reliant on the condition of their farmland and fisheries.
Livescience_2014 01405.txt
But within a year or two farmers saw a devastating increase in pestilence and water shortages.
Livescience_2014 02338.txt
One study outlined in the May 2013 issue of the journal Emerging Infectious disease found that head lice in the Democratic republic of the congo could spread plague.
Livescience_2014 04108.txt
and Kings Canyon National parks. Sequoias are normally resistant to most diseases that plague California's forests.
Nature 00004.txt
Nature Newsa plague of crop-eating caterpillars has struck Liberia and a second wave could spread across West Africa in the next few weeks,
Nature 00891.txt
but in 1898, drought, pestilence and hunting left the Tsavo region of Kenya barren of the lions'favourite meals.
Nature 00903.txt
Nature News Liberia's caterpillar plague Panic struck Liberia in early 2009, after a plague of caterpillars struck villages around the country, munching trees
Nature 02082.txt
Animal diseases Livestock plagues are on the rise globally owing to increasingly intensive farming practices and the world's growing taste for meat and other animal products.
Nature 02094.txt
Livestock plagues are spreading: Nature Newslivestock plagues are on the rise globally, owing to increasingly intensive farming practices and the world's growing taste for meat and other animal products.
The warning comes from scientists at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), based in Nairobi, Kenya,
Nature 02361.txt
Cornman, a geneticist for the Bee Research Laboratory of the US Department of agriculture (USDA) in Beltsville, Maryland, is trying to characterize the various pathogens that plague the honeybee (Apis mellifera), arguably the world's most important insect.
Nature 02429.txt
The pathogens include bacteria and viruses that cause smallpox, the plague, anthrax, Ebola and foot-and-mouth disease.
Nature 03639.txt
before fanning out across Russia (see Pig plague). Source: C. Netherton/OIETHE recent spread of the virus means that the Ukrainian outbreak,
Nature 04474.txt
In 2011, scientists reported the sequence of the plague-causing bacteria responsible for the Black death of the 1340s.
popsci_2013 00933.txt
if there ever is another global plague. a real one not the BS swine flu) Engineers are scientists too btw.
popsci_2013 01396.txt
BLACK DEATH COMET AFTER PASSING THROUGH ITS LONG TAIL OF (COMET NEGRA) 1014ad VERY LARGE TIDAL WAVES THE LARGEST EVER RECORDED FROM IMPACTS ALL OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AFTER PASSING THROUGH ITS LONG TAIL.
popsci_2013 01830.txt
Magicicada is a plague unlike any other here in the northeast. And it is a plague with a reason:
emerging in absurd over-the-top biblical numbers is the cicada's bizarre--but effective--means of survival.
The writers didn't seem to be any good at math anyway. biblical numbers a slight variation from biblical proportions is indicative of immense catastrophe such as the many that are contained within The Bible (floods plagues Sodom and Gomorrah etc..
Here the writer uses a metaphor claiming cicadas are a plague so his usage of the phrase biblical numbers is appropriate.
How many critters were in the plagues? Would the 2004 Thailand Tsunami be considered Biblical do you think?
popsci_2013 02418.txt
#Something Is Killing Up to Half Of America's Bees There's some kind of environmental issue/plague/apocalypse killing America's honeybees
popsci_2013 02908.txt
Consider the Black plague's 75million death count. Very tramatic to society and civilization-that was a third of Europe.
Bad yes but hardly a plague w
popsci_2013 02917.txt
#Even Hobby Drones Could Be made Illegal In Texason a hazy day last January an unmanned aircraft enthusiast piloted his camera-equipped drone in the vicinity of a Dallas meatpacking plant cruising around 400 feet in the air.
Popsci_2014 00678.txt
Although bioweapon stockpiles are in short supply (with very good reason) Mathaudhu is confident that geneticists could synthesize whatever new plagues seem useful.
ScienceDaily_2013 00944.txt
Primates are seen as the worst plague and the animals that are the most destructive. Olive baboons vervets and other primates are the main culprits.
ScienceDaily_2013 04625.txt
but climate change is rapidly altering the distribution and magnitude of forest pestilence and altering biodiversity and the ecosystem.
ScienceDaily_2013 12608.txt
and eliminate this plague said Claude Fauquet a scientist at the International Center for Tropical agriculture (known by its Spanish acronym CIAT) who heads the Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st Century (GCP21).
ScienceDaily_2013 13792.txt
Tobias Hoch Ph d. who conducted the study said the results shed light on the causes of a condition called hedonic hyperphagia that plagues hundreds of millions of people around the world.
ScienceDaily_2013 15892.txt
unless there is a concerted international effort now the plague of tobacco smoking that has claimed 100 million lives in the Developed Nations will claim a billion in the Developing Nations where smoking has yet to take hold as it did during the last century in the U s. and other Developed nations.
ScienceDaily_2013 17583.txt
and biological control of plagues as their larvae feed on other insects that are damaging to crops
ScienceDaily_2013 17985.txt
Others particularly mites and ticks can transmit diseases such as plague typhus or scabies. When the researchers compared their present-day maps with parasite distributions predicted for the future they found that lemur parasites could expand their range by as much as 60 percent.
ScienceDaily_2013 18514.txt
Plague outbreaks political conflicts and migration movements often matched periods of cooler temperatures. Moreover fluctuations in settlement activity appear to be linked to climate variability.
The Black death in the mid-14th century the Thirty years war between 1618-1648 and the Russian crusade of Napoleon in 1812 are three most prominent examples of climate-culture interactions.
ScienceDaily_2014 03067.txt
The first tetracyclines discovered in the late 1940s ushered in a new class of powerful antibacterial agents to treat high-mortality diseases among them anthrax and plague as well as such bacterial infections as chlamydia syphilis and Lyme disease.
ScienceDaily_2014 10447.txt
and often infected by fleas with plague bacteria Knutie says. Permethrin has been sprayed in burrows but that is labor-intensive so it might be used on vegetation the animals drag into their burrows.
ScienceDaily_2014 11149.txt
The same molecular machinery employed by Pseudomonas syringae is used also by a host of microbes to cause diseases that afflict people including salmonella the plague respiratory disease and chlamydia.
Smart_Planet_12 00485.txt
If you're going to plague a high-density downtown with a parking garage, I can't think of a better addition.
Smart_Planet_4 00615.txt
so their milk contains high levels of an antimicrobial enzyme to help infants ward off stomach infections, a problem that plagues the developing world's children.
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