Word: cholera
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United Nations officials said bad water and sanitation are spreading deadly cholera among more than 1 million Rwandan refugees encamped near the Zairian border town of Goma. Today more than 200 infected corpses were dumped in a pit near a banana plantation. The Rwandans, most of them Hutu who fear reprisals from the victorious Rwandan Patriotic Front at home, also face mass starvation. Of the 660 tons of food officials say is needed daily, the U.N. has only managed to distribute 44 tons. Worse, almost half a million more refugees are streaming to other border towns, with 2 million more...
...today, Prince Mikasa, the 78-year-old brother of the late Japanese Emperor Hirohito, called Japan's actions in World War II "aggression" and said his family behaved brutally.The prince also revealed that a team from the United Nations' forerunner, the League of Nations, was served fruit laced with cholera germs when it came to investigate Japan's invasion of China in the late '30s. The Yomiuri, Japan's largest newspaper, conducted the interview after the recent discovery of a 1944 speech Mikasa delivered to soldiers "out of a desperate desire to bring the war to a close." BTW: Criticism...
Early on there was already a winner in the war, whose triumph will be unaffected by whatever the politicians or soldiers decide. It is the victory of disease. Sanitation is impossible; typhoid, dysentery, cholera are all menacing the refugees, especially the children. Malarial mosquitoes swarm above the swamps. As the rainy season continues in the mountains, the dry cough of pneumonia and tuberculosis echoes through the camps. One Red Cross doctor has commandeered a partly built breeze-block structure and roofed it with blue plastic sheeting to make a hospital. More than 70 patients with bullet wounds and 100 others...
...drains are therefore far too dangerous, logistically and theologically, to contemplate. Hades is the only place in the universe with more niggling zoning laws than Cambridge, and Hades' Commissioner of Animal Rights declared that storm drains would have an adverse environmental impact on endangered species such as typhus and cholera...
...author's distinctive magic realism can come in relatively small containers. But it does so with a difference. These 12 stories take place far from the vivid South American settings of his other tales and novels, including One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1988). In a prologue the 1982 Nobel laureate notes the theme that links these stories together: "the strange things that happen to Latin Americans in Europe...