Word: cholerae
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Daisy Eagan plays Mary Lennox, an orphan whose unloving parents died in a cholera epidemic in India. John Babcock, 14, plays her cousin Colin, a sickly boy kept locked away from chill winds and excitement in a room where he frets that he will be transmuted into a hunchback like his father. Mandy Patinkin plays the father, his deformity barely noticeable but his behavior conspicuously odd: he visits his son only when the boy is asleep, a quirk that never makes psychological sense. In the woods -- including the walled enclave of the title, cultivated by Colin's late mother...
Many doctors think of cholera as a kind of Lazarus syndrome. Victims are brought to a clinic or hospital with no apparent blood pressure or pulse, taking only shallow breaths. "But if there is any life left in them at all, we can bring them back," says Dr. David Sack, associate professor of international health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Sadly, thousands of people in Latin America will not be revived in time and will die of the disease, which robs the body of fluids through severe diarrhea and vomiting. Last week the first epidemic of cholera...
...that had been illegally brought into the country from Ecuador. (Excellent public sanitation should, however, prevent a U.S. outbreak.) "We just can't hold the epidemic within the present limits," says Carlyle Guerra de Macedo, director of the Pan American Health Organization. "Most likely we are going to have cholera in all of Latin America...
Health officials from nine different Latin American nations met in Sucre, Bolivia, last week to coordinate their efforts and issue an urgent call for international help. The World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva announced the formation of a special cholera task force. In addition, France and the U.S. are sending supplies and medical staff to set up emergency clinics...
...importation of uncooked Peruvian food products. Soccer matches in Lima between Peruvian teams and squads from Argentina and Uruguay have also been canceled. While the exact source of the outbreak remains unclear, tests of coastal waters have shown a high degree of contamination. Some reports speculate that the cholera arrived on a ship from Southeast Asia...