Word: cholera
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Already afflicted by economic ills and a festering guerrilla insurgency, Peru is now plagued by an epidemic of cholera sweeping along its Pacific coast. As of last week, the disease had claimed 90 lives and infected at least 14,000 people. It is the first major outbreak of cholera in the western hemisphere since early in this century...
Biological agents could be a different problem. Iraq is believed to possess some of them, including typhoid, cholera and botulin toxin. In open air, most of those die within hours. So does anthrax, an infectious, spore-forming bacterium that Saddam is also believed to possess. But if spores of anthrax penetrate the ground, they can survive in a dormant state for decades, waiting for new victims...
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1988). It might seem hard to wring interest or suspense out of a love story that has been stalled for more than 50 years by the inconvenience of the woman's happy marriage to someone else. Garcia Marquez does so with no visible effort. The magic realism of his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970), is muted here. The later novel's surfaces seem real; the inner lives are fantastic...
While chemical substances cause fatal gas burns in the lungs, germ warfare is designed to spawn epidemics of deadly diseases such as typhoid, cholera and anthrax. So far, there appears to be no evidence that Iraq has deployed germ warfare, despite allegations last September by Kurdish rebels that an outbreak of typhoid was caused by an Iraqi attack. But a purported document captured by Kurdish guerrillas a year ago refers to an inventory of "chemical and biological" materials in the hands of the Iraqi army. Dated Aug. 3, 1986, the document was released by London-based officials of the Kurdish...
...medical corps travels with a caravan of packhorses through rugged terrain into Afghanistan. There its members will treat victims of the war between the Afghan resistance and the Soviet-backed government. At a headquarters building in Paris, shortwave-radio antennas turn toward Africa. A faraway voice reports that a cholera epidemic has struck refugees fleeing Mozambique's civil war. Within 48 hours, prepackaged containers filled with medical supplies...