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hookworm disease

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noun

  1. the nontechnical name for ancylostomiasis

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The results point to potential de-worming treatments to help fight some of the most neglected tropical diseases - including river blindness, schistosomiasis and hookworm disease - which affect around a billion people worldwide.

From Reuters Nov. 5, 2018

A war will be waged on the hookworm disease and malaria that infest the hot lowlands.

From Time Magazine Archive

It conducted research through a field staff of 70 public health experts on yellow fever, malaria, hookworm disease, tuberculosis, yaws, diphtheria, schistosomiasis. influenza.

From Time Magazine Archive

With about $35 million of the aid funds still unspent, Ydigoras said that the only additional aid he might need would be a relatively modest sum for fighting malaria and hookworm disease.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two Americans in Porto Rico showed the possibility of stamping out hookworm disease.

From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress

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