Word: cholerae
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...disinfectant, chlorine is one of the public-health success stories of the 20th century. After it was first used to purify water supplies in the early 1900s, typhoid fever, cholera and dysentery virtually disappeared from the U.S. But the chemical has been under attack in recent years by environmentalists for contributing to the destruction of the earth's ozone layer. Greenpeace's "Chlorine Kills!" campaign is focused primarily on paper bleaching and other industrial uses, but the organization also urged pool operators to look for an alternative to chlorine...
...last week the National Institutes of Health announced that it was launching a two-year study. The NCI editorial also warned about the perils of abandoning drinking-water chlorination too hastily. It noted that when Peru did that in 1991, some 300,000 Peruvians were stricken in a cholera epidemic...
...been running ever farther west to escape Kabila's advancing Tutsi-led fighters. In recent weeks they have become the hapless victims of many attackers: Mobutu's retreating troops; Kabila's rebels; local Zaireans resentful of the aid the refugees were receiving; and the death-dealing ravages of malnutrition, cholera and dysentery...
...Hutus and the Tutsis overflows into Zaire, the refugees' situation is rapidly deteriorating. Last month, U.N. officials touring the area visited a Zairian refugee camp with 400,000 inhabitants and found not a single well of fresh water. Such scarcity of food and water, as well as outbreaks of cholera, threaten the displaced political refugees, 100,000 more of whom are predicted to return to Rwanda in the next few weeks...
...brink of a catastrophe," says Sadako Ogata, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. "Unless we can deliver food, water and other basic assistance to the people in the camps...they will end up dying. There is no time to waste." In 1994, when refugees converged on Goma and cholera broke out, Ogata issued a similar warning. By the time the world responded, some 50,000 of them, mostly women and children, were dead...