GC: n S: OSCE – http://www.osce.org/odihr/44453 (last access: 28 February 2013); UNESCO – https://bit.ly/1zmcBNk (last access: 27 May 2017). N: 1. 1903, from xeno- “foreign, strange” + -phobia “fear.” Earlier (c.1884) it meant “agoraphobia.” 2. Origin of XENOPHOBIA: New Latin. First Known Use: 1903. 3. Fear and hatred of strangers
GC: n S: WHO – http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/133705/1/WHO_NMH_NHD_EPG_14.4_eng.pdf (last access: 10 February 2016); MN – http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=6040 (last access: 10 February 2016). N: 1. Greek, xeros + ophthalmos, eye. 2. Night blindness is an early sign of vitamin A deficiency, followed by abnormal dryness of the eye and ultimately scarring of the cornea,
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs100/en/ (last access: 6 December 2013) ; http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Yellow-fever/Pages/Introduction.aspx (last access: 7 August 2015); DORLAND. N: 1. yellow fever, Aedes aegypti acute infectious disease, one of the great epidemic diseases of the tropical world, though it sometimes has occurred in temperate zones as well. 2. The
GC: n S: http://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthfiles/hfile77.stm (last access: 28 February 2013); https://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/yersiniosis/fact_sheet.htm (last access: 28 February 2016). N: 1. Alexandre Yersin, in full Alexandre-Émile-John Yersin, also called Alexandre-John-Émile Yersin (born Sept. 23, 1863, Lavaux, near Aubonne, Switz.—died March 1, 1943, Nha Trang, Annam, Indochina, now in Vietnam), Swiss-born French bacteriologist and one
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/zika/en/ (last access: 19 February 2016); WebMD – http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/zika-virus-symptoms-prevention (last access: 19 February 2016). N: 1. In 1947, scientists researching yellow fever placed a rhesus macaque in a cage in the Zika Forest (zika meaning “overgrown” in the Luganda language), near the East African Virus
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/csr/disease/zika/case-definition/en/ (last access: 1 February 2018); https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/zika-virus/symptoms-causes/syc-20353639 (last access: 1 February 2018). N: 1. – Zika (pn): Name of a forest in Uganda. “Zika” as a noun is a virus, by 1952, discovered 1947 and named for the Zika Forest of Uganda, where it was
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/zoonoses/en/ (last access: 4 December 2014); NIH – http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/animaldiseasesandyourhealth.html (last access: 8 December 2014). N: 1. zoonosis (n): “disease communicated to humans by animals,” plural zoonoses, 1876, from zoo- (word-forming element meaning “animal, living being,” from comb. form of Greek zoion “an animal,” literally “a
GC: n S: http://www.mycology.adelaide.edu.au/Mycoses/Subcutaneous/Zygomycosis/ (last access: 31 May 2016); CDC – https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/diseases/mucormycosis/ (last access: 31 May 2016). N: 1. Greek zygon + mykes, fungus. 2. The term zygomycosis describes in the broadest sense any infection due to a member of the Zygomycetes. These are primitive, fast growing, terrestrial, largely saprophytic