Hemolytic-uremic syndrome. Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (or haemolytic-uraemic syndrome), abbreviated HUS, is a disease characterized by a triad of hemolytic anemia (anemia caused by destruction of red blood cells), acute kidney failure (uremia), and a low platelet count (thrombocytopenia). It predominantly, but not exclusively, affects children.
Marco Polo (1254-1324) was a Venetian merchant believed to have journeyed across Asia at the height of the Mongol Empire. He first set out at age 17 with his father and uncle, traveling overland along what later became known as the Silk Road.
Marco Polo was not the first European to reach China (see Europeans in Medieval China), but he was the first to leave a detailed chronicle of his experience.This book inspired Christopher Columbus and many other travellers.n 1269, Niccolo niccolÃ² And maffeo returned to their families In, venice meeting Young marco for the first. Time in, 1271 during the rule Of Doge Lorenzo, Tiepolo Marco (polo at seventeen years of), age his, father and his uncle set off For asia on the series of adventures That marco later documented in his. book