Word: cholera
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...think of," says David Sack, an American doctor who is the ICDDR's executive director. Cheap; but nothing like as commonly available as it should be. Oral rehydration has saved the lives of more than 40 million children since it was first put to the test during a cholera outbreak among refugees on India's border with Bangladesh in 1971. But decades later, it remains grossly underused. The result, according to the World Health Organization (WHO): 3 million people a year still die from diarrheal complications, including 1.9 million children under 5, or 17% of the estimated 11 million deaths...
...waging a desperate battle against a relentless medical foe. In an office that's only a few degrees cooler than the sweltering city outside, Jhingan and his small team of doctors are tackling what could be India's biggest emerging health problem. No, it's not aids or cholera or malaria, each of which is tragically entrenched among the country's 1 billion people...
...Southeast Asia. "A lot of the inpatients [stay] because they and their families have no place to go. As no hospital is geared to deal with such a large human populace on its premises, this is putting a heavy strain on water and sanitation facilities." So far, though, cholera and dysentery have been kept...
Ocean-water patterns also play a role in human health. Mercedes Pascual and her colleagues at the University of Michigan have been poring over more than a century's worth of data on cholera outbreaks in Bangladesh and tying them to detailed temperature reports of the surface waters of the Pacific Ocean. True, Bangladesh isn't anywhere near the Pacific, but the researchers are using the temperature data as an indication of a larger weather pattern called the El Niņo/ Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. What they have found is that the severity of an epidemic is linked to water...
...hovels about condom use, Bill sits with his hands in his lap, nodding robotically, while Melinda leans forward to ask questions and hold babies. On the first day of their trip, after flying all night to Dhaka, Bangladesh, from Seattle, the Gateses visited a place known as the Cholera Hospital, where they are helping fund groundbreaking research on pneumonia. On their tour, they walked into a room full of 30 crying babies and their mothers. All the babies had cholera, and they were lying on gurneys with holes in the center so that diarrhea would land in a bucket below...