hookworm disease
Britishnoun
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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
He was enthusiastic about the work of the Rockefeller Foundation in attacking the sources of the hookworm disease, yellow fever and malaria.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the first investigations were made, there were 407 cases of hookworm disease out of 1002 residents.
From Community Civics and Rural Life by Dunn, Arthur William
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