Word: cholerae
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...other Indians known to have been infected with the virus (two of whom have died), is thought to be just the beginning. Poverty and a burgeoning population of more than 750 million make it difficult for Indian doctors to cope with even familiar diseases, such as tuberculosis, malaria and cholera. Now that the first AIDS cases have been detected, says Dr. V. Ramalingaswami, former director general of the Indian Council of Medical Research, "we in India have been shaken and face a moment of truth...
...likely to have a profoundly adverse effect on attempts to control spread of the epidemic. AIDS will not be contained if the threat of reprisal drives gay men underground. The best hope is through openness and education. Repression will be as ineffective with this disease as it was with cholera in the last century and with several sexually transmitted diseases in this...
...corpses were, to be sure, committed as quickly as possible to mass graves, but by that time they had been lying in the open long enough to arouse fears of epidemics. Only a few days after the storm struck, 40 people were dead of cholera, and others were described as in critical condition. When the first relief teams landed on Urirchar, they tried to inoculate 300 people against typhoid, tetanus and cholera. But the resources at hand were totally inadequate: all the injections had to be given with the same needle because replacements were not available. "We cannot change...
...Mengistu Haile Mariam denied - the accounts. The evacuation, it said, had actually begun a month earlier, with several thousand people leaving each week. The army had not been involved; as for the fire that consumed shelters, officials variously described it as an accident, a precaution against an outbreak of cholera, and the work of a demented arsonist. The authorities insisted that departing refugees were given rations to sustain them on their walk and that they would receive seeds for planting once they reached their homes...
...explanation did have some foundation. Cholera outbreaks were reported over a month ago in several other famine-relief camps; given the unusually large population at Ibnet, the danger of disease was considered especially acute. The government's encouragement of planting before the seasonal rains also made sense, at least in principle. "If these people are going to harvest in the next few months," said Father Jack Finucane, the field director of Concern, an Irish relief agency, who visited Ibnet last week, "this is the time they should go back home. There is very little hope for them in the camp...