Word: cholera
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...Munigi cholera camp in northeastern Zaire, the very ground is infected by the dying. Nurse Isabel Subiros, wearing jeans and pink rubber gloves, steps carefully around the contaminated diarrhea and vomit and bloody needles. She accidentally pricked herself this morning. She tries not to think about it, or anything that is happening around her. "It is best just to work," she says...
...Cholera is proving more efficient than carbines. It kills in hours, draining the body of fluid so fast that nurses without equipment for transfusions cannot rehydrate victims in time. Along the roadways and in the camps it has become hard to tell the sleeping from the dead until the bodies swell up in the tropical sun. Refugees wrap their faces in scarves and rags and surgical masks, hoping to filter the stench from the rotting bodies everywhere...
...Zairian border town of Goma. The bottlenecked Goma has proved a frustrating place from which to launch a rescue effort, even though the largest contingent of refugees has gathered in and around the city. U.S. aircraft landed there today with vital equipment to purify contaminated water that has spread cholera among tens of thousands of the 1.2 million refugees...
...blaming the foul-ups on French forces who have run the airport since mid-June. U.N. officials, meanwhile, suspended other American flights because they had received more aid than they could distribute amid a shortage of trucks and personnel. The chaos of goodwill comes as the tally of cholera deaths rises above...
...tide of Rwandan refugees in and outside of the country has risen to 4 million, and U.N. officials are reporting some cases of bubonic plague in addition to the epidemic of cholera. President Clinton, who has drawn criticism from relief officials for not acting quickly enough on the Rwandan crisis, will put up an additional $41.4 million for humanitarian aid there, raising the U.S. contribution to almost $200 million. He also said he would spearhead an international program to stem the cholera epidemic...