Assertion: hookworm | /r/HasProperty | major public health problem
Facets:
value: in brazil
type: LOCATION
value: in this country
type: LOCATION
value: no longer
type: TEMPORAL
value: definitely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Hookworms, roundworms, and pin-worms are among the most common intestinal parasites and are a major public health problem.
text: Hookworms were definitely a major factor in holding back progress in the American South.
text: Those factors, more than anything else, are responsible for the fact that hookworm is no longer a major problem in this country.
text: There may be other reasons as well for anaemia but hookworms feeding on the blood can be one major factor.
text: In some regions of sub-Saharan Africa, hookworm disease in children and pregnant women is almost as important as malaria as a cause of anemia (Brooker et al., 1999), and is a major cause of anemia in Brazil (Brooker et al., 2007).
text: Hookworm disease was one of three major diseases that had plagued the South since the early 1800s.
text: Hookworms, roundworms, and pin-worms are among the most common intestinal parasites and are a major public health problem.