Word: cholerae
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major biological-warfare center at Fort Detrick, Md., the Army is experimenting with diseases that include undulant fever, coccidioidomycosis (a fungus infection), Rocky Mountain spotted fever and various strains of encephalitis, botulism, cholera, glanders and pneumonic plague. The major biological agents that the Army "keeps on the shelf" ready for use are anthrax, Q-fever, tularemia (rabbit fever) and psittacosis (parrot fever). Stored in sod-covered, concrete "igloos" at the Army's Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas, they are kept in constant cy cles of development, production, storage, elimination and replacement. The quantities now on hand are said...
...about 40,000 travelers died of "misadventure" on the lonely, dusty roads of India. Cholera, smallpox and snakebite were among the popular certified causes of death. The actual cause, in more cases than not: death by strangling at the well-muscled hands of murderous religious fanatics called Thugs, who perversely justified their killing in the name of the Hindu goddess Kali but robbed for the immense benefit of themselves. George Bruce, journalist and Orientalist, examines these remarkable evildoers and with British understatement measures their crime and eventual punishment...
...Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) died of gangrene after smashing his foot with a heavy, canelike conductor's baton while leading an orchestra; Charles Valentin-Alkan (1813-1888) toppled a bookcase over on himself while reaching for a copy of the Talmud; Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) came down with cholera after drinking a glass of tap water; and Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961) suffered fatal brain damage when he became entangled in the leashes of two fighting dogs and fell on a sidewalk...
...visited the hospital at Quang Ngai and went through it in some detail with a doctor working with the Quaker unit. There was a standard medical ward which perhaps had an increase in the standard diseases of the area, malaria, diphtheria, cholera, plague had broken out in the region. And the other things that you are wont to find in this part of the world. But when we went beyond the medical ward into the severe injury ward, you saw the full horror of the war itself...
...victim's need for fluids and salts, a process that until then had usually required sophisticated hospital equipment. Working mainly in East Pakistan, Thailand and the Philippines, he developed a new method of intravenous feeding with sodium bicarbonate and other salt solutions. This replacement allowed victims of cholera to outlast the disease until recovery could occur. Because it is cheap and so simple that trained laymen can use it, the Phillips treatment has worked a mass miracle in Southeast Asia...