enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Hygiene - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene

    Food safety (or food hygiene) is used as a scientific method/discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. The occurrence of two or more cases of a similar illness resulting from the ingestion of a common food is known as a food-borne disease outbreak. [ 60 ]

  3. Disease vector - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_vector

    [a] Several articles were published in the medical journal The Lancet, and discuss how rapid changes in land use, trade globalization, climate change and "social upheaval" are causing a resurgence in zoonotic disease across the world. [20] Examples of vector-borne zoonotic diseases include: [21] Lyme disease; Plague; West Nile virus

  4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease...

    The CDC focuses national attention on developing and applying disease control and prevention. It especially focuses its attention on infectious disease, food borne pathogens, environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, injury prevention, and educational activities designed to improve the health of United States citizens.

  5. Typhoid fever - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoid_fever

    Industrialization contributed greatly to the elimination of typhoid fever, as it eliminated the public health hazards associated with having horse manure in public streets, which led to a large number of flies, [35] which are vectors of many pathogens, including Salmonella spp. [36] According to statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

  6. Diarrhea - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diarrhea

    Diarrhea is defined by the World Health Organization as having three or more loose or liquid stools per day, or as having more stools than is normal for that person. [ 2 ] Acute diarrhea is defined as an abnormally frequent discharge of semisolid or fluid fecal matter from the bowel, lasting less than 14 days, by World Gastroenterology ...

  7. Botulism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism

    Between 1990 and 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 263 individual foodborne cases from 160 botulism events in the United States with a case-fatality rate of 4%. Thirty-nine percent (103 cases and 58 events) occurred in Alaska, all of which were attributable to traditional Alaskan aboriginal foods.

  8. Surgery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgery

    Surgery [a] is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (e.g., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery such as gastric bypass), to reconstruct or alter aesthetics and appearance (cosmetic surgery), or to remove unwanted tissues (body fat, glands, scars ...

  9. SARS - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS

    On 12 March 2003, the WHO issued a global alert, followed by a health alert by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Local transmission of SARS took place in Toronto , Ottawa, San Francisco, Ulaanbaatar , Manila , Singapore, Taiwan, Hanoi and Hong Kong whereas within China it spread to Guangdong, Jilin , Hebei ...