Word: cholerae
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Contagious disease, from cholera to gonorrhea, has traditionally been fought with an array of weapons: education, vaccination, quarantine, testing for infection, reporting those infected as well as tracing and notifying others who have been exposed. Today general AIDS information programs are getting under way, but no vaccine exists. Mass confinement and quarantine are dismissed as impractical, even impossible. It is the last three options that are provoking heated controversy, as the uproar over testing shows...
...addition to these poisons, the river harbors at least 28 varieties of viruses and an unknown number of bacterial strains, including typhoid, cholera, hepatitis and the three known types of polio virus. According to Gruenberg, bacteria levels routinely reach 1,000 times the maximum level set by the EPA as safe for bodily contact. Though no one uses the water for drinking or irrigation, infected drifts of foam from Mexican laundry detergents are sometimes scattered by the wind, and Cottrell fears an epidemic is inevitable. At greatest risk are illegal immigrants, who occasionally venture into the polluted suds to swim...
...before he settled down to excavating inEurope and teaching in Cambridge, Sandburg visiteda lot of places, some stranger than others. Herecalls the time when after excavating in Israel,he decided to investigate a tribe of JordanianBedouins and ended up catching cholera. "I'dalways been interested in nomads," he explains. Herealized in Damascus, Syria, as he was hitchikinghome, that he was extremely sick, but it wasdifficult to do much about it immediately becauseAmerica has no diplomatic ties with Syria...
...wasvery romantic, but now I don't think so. I'drather have a nice long life and do all the thingsI want to do, and not go out in a burst of smoke,"Sandburg says. "I'm very happy working in Europeright now. I don't have to get cholera anymore...
...hamlets for some 40 miles around, were muddied by pelting rains. Therefore the burials were slowed considerably while troops laboriously dug the graves by hand. Officials began to fear that the bloated carcasses of cows, goats, pigs and chickens rotting in the equatorial heat would lead to a cholera or typhoid epidemic. Army efforts were further hampered by the handful of survivors who refused to leave their lifeless villages. In Cha, Kumba Ndongabang sat beneath a thatched platform, staring at the two graves where his five wives are now buried. "All my women die," he grieved, his voice rising...