Word: cholerae
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...those heading to developing nations, typhoid fever and cholera--both of which, like hepatitis A, are spread via contaminated food and water--also are concerns. Since the typhoid vaccine is not entirely effective, and the one for cholera is no longer offered in the U.S., people traveling to more remote locations are often told to eat only cooked foods and drink bottled water, Davenport notes...
...negotiated the streets by bicycle or trishaw, or else flagged down a 40-year-old Mazda B600 taxi, Burma's answer to the Trabant. Exploring the pot-holed backstreets, I came across extravagant faux-classical mansions towering over otherwise destitute neighborhoods where poor sanitation feeds regular outbreaks of cholera and pariah dogs nose through uncollected rubbish. In Burma, it seems, there are only two kinds of new buildings: museums constructed to celebrate the elimination of the narcotics trade and drug villas built on its proceeds...
...import of Thai chickens. Thaksin's own credibility has also taken a hit. Thai officials anonymously told local newspapers they were aware of the presence of avian flu in November but were told to keep it quiet and blame the culling of poultry on an outbreak of chicken cholera and bronchitis. Away from the cameras, Thaksin and his Cabinet may be less eager to feast on Thai chicken...
...that time we have seen him grow up, mostly in the small town of Aracataca, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. For his first eight years, he saw little of his parents, whom he will reimagine years later as the thwarted couple in Love in the Time of Cholera. In those years, they lived 50 miles away, in Barranquilla, where they struggled to sustain a pharmacy. Young "Gabito" was raised by his loving grandparents, who are transformed by him much later into the dynastic founders of One Hundred Years of Solitude, just as he makes Aracataca into that book...
...thing putting troops in between two armies that have agreed on a cease-fire; quite another when their job is to fight their way in and impose a truce on both - and to do so as the city's food and drinking water supplies dwindle and cholera becomes a real threat. The most immediate cause cited by West African leaders for the delay in getting an ECOWAS force onto the ground may be financial. The Nigerians claim their peacekeeping efforts in neighboring Sierra Leone over the past decade have cost Nigeria $12 billion, and they want assurances that this time...