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...African states in or near the Sahara are equally parched and devastated-Senegal, Mauretania, Mali, Niger, Upper Volta and Chad. Weakened by starvation, many black and Arab tribesmen face death from epidemics of cholera and measles...
Gardner credited the success of the North Vietnamese to their emphasis on preventive medicine. He said that the preventive care has helped in the disappearance of cholera, smallpox and polio which plague South Vietnam...
Despite its progress, North Viet Nam has not become a medical Utopia. Parasitic and infectious diseases, for instance, remain major problems. However, the visitors were told that some ailments have been brought under control. Cholera, trachoma, venereal disease and leprosy have become relatively rare. Polio, which still occurs in South Viet Nam, has been all but eliminated in the North. Even more impressive has been the decline in infant mortality. The infant death rate now stands at 26 per 1,000 births, a figure that seems high by Western standards but represents tremendous progress for the North Vietnamese. When...
...fact, as this perfectly sober biography with a plot like a chambermaid's dream shows, Lola was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1818, the daughter of an 18-year-old lieutenant and a 13-year-old chorine. When she was seven, Eliza's father died of cholera in India. Shipped home to Scotland, the child appalled her stepfather's Presbyterian parents by running naked through the streets. Hustled off to school in Paris, she perfected a homicidal temper and a gift for languages. At 19, she eloped to Ireland with a lieutenant named Thomas James, who soon...
...Henry Hardy and Terry Valenzuela of Adams House) ended up upside down. Apologists blamed the officials' launch for causing the spills, but cooler heads pointed to a basic instability of design. The crew of the Water Bedlam was somewhat compensated for their pains by walking off with the "Cholera Cup," awarded to the first contestant to fall in the Charles, and live. When asked his first reaction upon hitting the water, one of the Queen's crewmen replied," I shut my mouth,...fast...