Word: cholerae
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...been removed hints that there are more nearby, which of course the other photographs demonstrate to be the case. Piles of bodies-some with limbs hacked off or torn away by scavenging animals-decay among lush vegetation. In Zaire, we see front-end loaders filling mass graves of cholera victims from the refugee camps. In Somalia, the dead are wrapped in white cloth for proper Muslim burial; the corpses are so thin that they can be stacked for mass burial like cut saplings...
...flowing--precisely when the country needs ever larger foreign contributions to restart a moribund society. Particularly hard hit has been Rwanda's medical establishment, which is grappling with some of the most pressing public-health issues on the planet. At least 11% of the population is HIV positive. Malaria, cholera and other diseases are rampant and periodically spike to epidemic levels. Malnutrition is a chronic problem here as in much of Africa, with 10% of the children afflicted. And infant mortality rates at 125 deaths per 1,000 births are at double the world average. For such doctors as Emmanuel...
...promise, and no industry has delivered more of that over the past dozen years than biotechnology. That many of those promises have gone unfulfilled, however, deserves mention as we enter yet another period of wonder-drug euphoria on Wall Street. In the past, flamed-out cures for everything from cholera to cancer have burned those who dared put their money on a biotech dream. Just in case you forgot, or are too young to remember: there was a heart-fluttering, blood-clotting, joint-stiffening biotech bubble and bust in the early '90s, and Mr. Market has thoughtfully rewound the tape...
...city of refugees. In Sudan, the civil war was worsened by drought and the associated famine, which was coolly manipulated by the warring sides. In all those locations, the ones who didn't die along the road found themselves penned for long stretches in huge camps, where hunger, pneumonia, cholera and diphtheria claimed more lives every...