Word: cholerae
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...wards, the beds are filled by patients with AIDS, TB, malaria, typhoid, cholera, malnutrition and anemia. Some will die. Most will be cured. All will be treated with as much care and attention--if not more--as is afforded wealthy patients at Harvard Medical School and Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, where Farmer has joint appointments. He calls this approach the "preferential option for the poor...
...have, in the tradition of divine justification, viewed it as God's revenge on sodomites and junkies. There have been far more pervasive epidemics, certainly. In 1918 and '19, Spanish flu killed more than 500,000 Americans and ultimately 20 million worldwide. A million Russians may have died of cholera in 1848 alone. But during these scourges there were always the possibility and hope that the fever would lift, strength would return, and life would go on. With AIDS, says Dr. Michael Gottlieb, the UCLA immunologist who is overseeing Hudson's care, "the word cure...
...efforts to combat AIDS in their countries. This November TIME and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plan to hold a Global Health Summit in New York City, bringing together medical experts, politicians and business leaders to discuss new ways to combat diseases like AIDS, malaria, TB, malnutrition and cholera. We will also publish a special issue on global health that month, coinciding with W for Survival, a six-part prime-time PBS special co-produced by WGBH's NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions...
...week when Indonesia's Health Ministry moved 50,000 of the people on its missing list to the fatalities column, bringing the total there to 166,320. Although the waves have long receded, the tsunami still threatens. For survivors in crowded, unsanitary refugee camps, normally treatable illnesses such as cholera, dysentery, malaria and measles can quickly become mass murderers. So great is the danger that Dr. David Nabarro, the World Health Organization's (WHO) head of crisis operations, initially warned that the death toll from disease could rival that of the tsunami itself...
...human waste. The first order of business was to ensure a steady supply of clean drinking water, at least 18 liters a day per person, and to create a passable sanitation system?building latrines away from refugee camps, and promoting proper hygiene among survivors?to prevent illnesses like cholera. The disease is transmitted through water contaminated with cholera-carrying human feces. If a refugee camp's water becomes tainted, the disease can spread geometrically, making it one of the great killers of disaster survivors. In the 1994 Rwanda refugee crisis, cholera took some 45,000 lives in less than three...