Word: cholerae
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LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Florentino Ariza endures a half-century of solitude waiting for Fermina Daza to become a widow. The background is an imagined South American city, magically real...
...consisted only of military transports carrying relief supplies from the U.S., Canada, Europe and Jamaica's Caribbean neighbors. The hospital in Mandeville lost its roof, and the University Hospital of the West Indies in Mona was severely damaged. With water supplies contaminated, there is fear of an outbreak of cholera, dysentery and other diseases. Property losses will probably run to more than $500 million...
Even then the crisis will not be over. Already, experts estimate that as many as five hundred thousand new cases of diarrhea are occurring each day, most of them caused by polluted drinking water. Dysentery and perhaps cholera may soon follow. Because the flood has destroyed at least a quarter of this year's food crops, widespread hunger and perhaps pockets of starvation are anticipated...
Sudanese officials warned that stagnant pools left by the floods made ideal breeding conditions for locusts. The World Health Organization said contaminated water could cause malaria, typhoid and cholera epidemics...
...diet-and-wellness '80s, fish has been widely touted as a healthful food. Not only do smaller catches mean ever higher prices, but also the incidence of illnesses from eating contaminated fish -- including gastroenteritis, hepatitis A and cholera -- is rising around the U.S. Pesticide residues and other chemicals so taint New York marine waters that state officials have warned women of childbearing age and children under 15 against consuming more than half a pound of bluefish a week; they should never eat striped bass caught off Long Island. Says Mike Deland, New England regional administrator for the EPA: "Anyone...