Word: cholera
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...workers were, as one put it, "running out of adjectives" to describe a disaster in which 700,000 refugees have no food, no clean water, no medicine, where orphaned children dash down roads for safety from incoming artillery shells. As for Hemingway's lovely lake, the expected epidemic of cholera would certainly adorn Kivu's shore with a necklace of corpses...
...some special cases. In many neighborhoods, the most fearsome suffering is among children--from firearms. But how can we move beyond the tears? Working together, community groups, including clergy, health workers and police officers, can effectively apply public health strategies and conduct research, as in the case of polio, cholera or tuberculosis, to help determine contributing factors in the death or injury of any child by a gun. This is groundwork that can help prevent such tragedies in the future. These efforts combine scientific process with religious commitment to stop the violence...
...military than medical, there is good reason. Back in the 1960s and '70s, public-health experts felt they had pretty much triumphed over infectious diseases. Smallpox was on the way to extinction; polio was all but vanquished; and, thanks to antibiotics, improving sanitation and pesticides, such maladies as tuberculosis, cholera and malaria were on the run. One by one, humankind's deadliest scourges were being wiped from the earth...
...same time, the human defensive perimeters were crumbling. Underfunded prevention programs, along with excessive antibiotic use that led to drug resistance, were allowing diseases like TB, dengue fever, bacterial meningitis, yellow fever, cholera, malaria and even the dreaded plague to return. By the early 1990s there was a panicky feeling in the air that the microbes were exacting their revenge--and that humanity could do very little about...
...them together. That lack allowed an illness like AIDS to arise in rural Africa and achieve a firm foothold before anyone realized what had happened. Basic public-health measures like vaccinations and sanitation are inadequate in many areas, with the result, for example, that diphtheria in Russia and cholera in Latin America have bounced back...