Word: cholera
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...vulnerable to the crime wave that has overtaken Rio in recent years. The pollution problem is grave: some 400 tons of untreated sewage are dumped in Guanabara Bay every day. Indoor plumbing is a luxury in Rio's fetid hillside slums, and health officials are concerned that the cholera epidemic advancing across Latin America will soon descend...
...been overrun by drug traffickers and vicious Shining Path guerrillas, whose terrorist campaign has reached the shantytowns around Lima, the nation's capital. Less than 20% of the work force is employed full time. More than half of Peru's 22 million people live in dismal poverty; a recent cholera epidemic killed more than...
...novel's grand sense of humor, in fact, is reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera...
...thought airline food couldn't get any worse? The cholera epidemic in South America has touched Los Angeles; at least 39 passengers and crew members who arrived last month on an Aerolineas Argentinas flight from Buenos Aires have come down with the disease; one died. Los Angeles health officials, who are still trying to locate other passengers, suspect that airline meals taken on at a stop in Lima were tainted. Other major carriers now are taking special precautions. While American Airlines has eliminated green salads and fresh seafood from its South American menus, Varig copes by loading its planes with...
Because of such conditions, the threat from dysentery, typhoid fever, cholera and other diseases brought on by consuming contaminated food and water is even greater than the threat of starvation. "Dysentery is the No. 1 killer in Iraq right now," says Arfan al-Hani, a suburban-Chicago cardiologist who led the Arab-American medical delegation. Hospitals across the country are admitting two to five times as many patients with gastroenteritis caused by waterborne infections as they did before the war. Some other infections, including salmonella and shigellosis, could be treated with simple antibiotics. But all the doctors can offer...