• Wilderness-acquired diarrhea is a variety of traveler's diarrhea in which backpackers and other outdoor enthusiasts are affected. Potential sources are...
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    percent in 1520 alone. Wilderness diarrhea, also called wilderness-acquired diarrhea (WAD) or backcountry diarrhea, refers to diarrhea among backpackers,...
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    Reed Tropical Medicine Course – Silver Spring, Maryland, US Wilderness acquired diarrhea Expedition medicine Supercourse on Travel Medicine Archived 2006-09-01...
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    Firelighting Hammock camping Outdoor cooking Overlanding Swag Tarp tent Wilderness-acquired diarrhea Frank A. Bates, Camping and camp cooking (Boston: The Ball Publishing...
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    Portable water purification (category Wilderness)
    backpackers, although this has created some controversy. (See wilderness acquired diarrhea.) In Hawaii and other tropical areas, Leptospira spp. are another...
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    (February 2001). "Practice guidelines for the management of infectious diarrhea" (PDF). Clinical Infectious Diseases. 32 (3): 331–51. doi:10.1086/318514...
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    backpacking, horseback riding, fishing, and hunting all require basic wilderness survival skills, especially to handle emergencies. Individuals who practice...
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    Hypovolemic shock, also known as low volume shock, may be from bleeding, diarrhea, or vomiting. Cardiogenic shock may be due to a heart attack or cardiac...
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  • for their fast and advanced nature. Symptoms of Cholera include nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting which contribute to dehydration, erratic heartbeat, and shriveled...
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  • illness globally. It spreads easily and causes symptoms like vomiting, diarrhea, and stomach pain. Toxoplasma gondii: This parasite is commonly found in...
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    and the right wing of the V. However, Lee, incapacitated in his tent by diarrhea, could not effect the attack he hoped to make. Grant realized the situation...
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  • are mildly irritating to the skin or stomach, and may sometimes cause diarrhea and vomiting if eaten, they rarely cause serious medical problems. Sunflowers...
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  • Michalak's body. Michalak continued to suffer from prolonged bouts of diarrhea, headaches, blackouts, and continued weight loss, eventually seeking help...
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    much of the Mexico City battle, he was in the sick tent, plagued by acute diarrhea. Pierce remained in command of his brigade during the three-month occupation...
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    preserve that was jointly acquired by the Guilford County Open Space Program and the State of North Carolina. The preserve was acquired in two parts, the Taylor...
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  • disease: "fever, cough, muscle pain, and then nausea, and/or vomiting, and diarrhea". Unexpected dimming of Betelgeuse is explained by NASA as a "traumatic...
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    could lead to diabetic coma (caused by the low levels of blood sugar). Diarrhea, which can lead to severe dehydration. Diving disorders. Drowning, including...
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    cardiovascular diseases, 204.63 by neoplasms and 100.66 by neurological disorders. Diarrhea, lower respiratory, and other common infections were ranked sixth overall...
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    Snakebite (category Wilderness medical emergencies)
    may contribute to other symptoms, and may include nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, vertigo, fainting, tachycardia, and cold, clammy skin. Snake bites can...
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    disease: "fever, cough, muscle pain, and then nausea, and/or vomiting, and diarrhea". Unexpected dimming of Betelgeuse is explained by NASA as a "traumatic...
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    capitalize on the situation. Lee suddenly suffered a debilitating attack of diarrhea and was forced to remain in his tent, bedridden. Unfortunately, he had...
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    Snake venom (category Wilderness medical emergencies)
    one to three hours great prostration, accompanied by vomiting, and often diarrhea, sets in. Cold, clammy perspiration is usual. The pulse becomes extremely...
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    at Savannah, Georgia, and taken to Annapolis where he died of chronic diarrhea on December 20, 1864. Private Peter Losey (no. 287) was buried at U. S...
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    internees for diseases such as measles, chickenpox, whooping cough, and diarrhea. Treatment facilities were often the barracks, which did not include running...
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    causes of death, were, in order, croup, winter fever, cholera, hives, diarrhea, consumption and accidents. More than half of all deaths were infants under...
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    outfit wagons, buy livestock, and assemble supplies to start over in a wilderness that was described as having poor prospects. A year after landing, the...
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  • memory – how it is acquired, and how it is lost. "Arctic Oil" 12/05/1979 (Wed) (12/05/1979 (Wed)) 07 North America's last great wilderness area, Lancaster...
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    (vertigo, weakness, sleepiness, difficulties in moving), others local (diarrhea, constipation, and so on). Nevertheless, they advise persevering, insisting...
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    became contaminated by human wastes. Cholera causes vomiting and severe diarrhea, and in places where human wastes contaminate water supplies the causal...
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