Word: cholera
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...Reserve chairman and promoted James Mclntyre Jr. to Director of the Office of Management and Budget (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). But Carter spent most of his time getting ready for his trip. Like any other tourist headed for Asia, he took pills to ward off malaria and was inoculated against cholera and typhoid. He pored over thick briefing books. He packed a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu holy book...
Cairo insisted that Egypt was still cholera free, and took the precaution of checking travelers from affected countries. Hundreds who did not have up-to-date vaccination certificates were quarantined; cholera can incubate in the body for as long as five days before symptoms appear. Incoming planes were fumigated as soon as they landed. The health ministry launched a massive campaign to inoculate 13 million Egyptians. Authorities burned every garbage heap they could find in Cairo and Alexandria...
What has all the Arab countries jittery, especially Saudi Arabia, is that during the next few months millions of Muslims will be making the pilgrimage to the holy shrine in Mecca. Cholera has already appeared near Medina on one of the routes followed by the faithful coming from as far away as Indonesia and the Indian subcontinent, where cholera is endemic. (Israeli authorities have arranged with Jordan to cooperate in the immunization of 5,000 Muslims living in Israel or occupied territories who will be making the pilgrimage.) Arab governments are so concerned that this week they will hold...
However, there are sensible precautions that can help avoid infection. The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta is advising U.S. tourists in cholera areas to: 1) drink only bottled water that is carbonated (which makes it acidic enough to kill the bacteria); 2) carry chlorine or iodine disinfectants to treat water where the carbonated variety is unavailable; 3) eat no fruit that anyone else has peeled, but peel it themselves; 4) eat no vegetables or other foods that have not been thoroughly and freshly cooked and served promptly...
...days when cholera was fatal in 50% of cases or more have long passed. (Before 1930, for example, cholera epidemics in India regularly took more than 300,000 lives a year.) Physicians now know that the shock and threat of quick death from cholera result from the massive loss of body fluid-as much as several gallons a day-through diarrhea. They can prescribe antibiotics, especially tetracycline, which may shorten the duration of the diarrhea. The dehydration can also be reversed, and the patient rehydrated, with a simple solution containing common salt, baking soda, potassium chloride and glucose...