Word: cholerae
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...Hutu soldiers behave less like a vanquished enemy than an invasion force in waiting, and the taste of defeat seems only to have sharpened their appetite for more fighting. "The war's not over," says Corporal Xavier Ndayisaba, 22, who has just been treated for cholera. "If we can get weapons, we'll fight again. There are enough of us to liberate our country...
...Rwandan refugee crisis has reached a boiling point now that mass epidemics of cholera and dysentery threaten the lives of thousand. The time has finally come for the United States and the Western powers to make a decision whether or not to intervene and to what degree. If action is to be taken, a plan must be formed before the situation deteriorates, before violence and disease get too far out of control. However the background to the Rwandan crisis merits careful attention before any plans should be made...
...biggest obstacle to the UN relief efforts is epidemic disease. Because of inadequate sanitation facilities, these camps recently have been subject to widespread outbreaks of cholera and dysentery. Officials fear that at the present rate of proliferation, disease will kill between 7,000 and 70,000 people daily. White House reports estimate that Rwandans in camp die at the rate of one per minute...
...instant cities of despairing souls on the borders of Rwanda, hope proved less contagious than fear or cholera. Thousands of refugees kept dying in the ghastly camps of Zaire last week, as many as 2,000 a day. As the world struggled to assuage the suffering, word went out from the U.N., the White House, the relief agencies to 2 million sick and starving people: there is food in Rwanda and clean water and a promise of safety. Go home: that is the only real salvation. Some refugees, suspecting that they were merely choosing where they were going...
...cholera tent in Goma, Edithe Nyirarukundo, 34, lies on soiled cardboard. Back in Kigali she had been a secretary at the Ministry of Labor. She lost touch with her husband and three children in the war. Now she's recuperating, she says, from the cholera. "I want to go home. I don't understand why we can't settle things in a country as small as ours." Edithe lays her head on the mattress of her friend Claudette Ruhumuliza, 27, a teacher. "I think I'm going to die soon," Claudette says, staring at her husband Prosper. Once they...