Word: cholerae
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...recent years European public health officials have been puzzled by a number of cholera outbreaks in areas where the disease is usually unheard of. Several such cases occurred in Czechoslovakia, Portugal and northern France; one even involved a woman, 65, who had never left her village and could not have had contact with any cholera carriers. Now a British researcher offers a novel explanation for these mysterious outbreaks. Writing in the British Journal of Hygiene, Dr. Charles Rondle and his colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine suggest that the cholera came, literally, out of thin...
...teacher, later a rector. In 1966, after being elevated to the See of Naples, he soon won admiration as a "good pastor." As Cardinal he not only visited his parishes but often stayed on for two or three days to learn their needs. Three years ago, when a cholera epidemic broke out in Naples, he visited the hospitals each day, personally giving the last rites to a dying woman. He annually leads clergy and lay people to the Anglican church in Naples for ecumenical services on Holy Saturday; he maintains cordial relations with the city's Communist administration. In sturdy...
...news agency AZAP lamely tried to explain that "for purposes of identification and to facilitate the work of the press and the Red Cross, all bodies have been left at the spot where they were killed." As the stench became intolerable and the threat of a cholera epidemic grew, Red Cross officials recruited local workers, provided them with masks, and set up burial crews...
...China, the crash training of legions of doctors, nurses and paramedics and the founding of rural health centers have nearly eradicated cholera, plague and other diseases that for centuries had periodically ravaged the population. Similar efforts are now under way in Mozambique. The Marxist Frelimo regime has set up free health clinics in many villages for combating such chronic problems as malnutrition, malaria and tuberculosis...
...complaints in which (extract of hemp) has been specifically recommended are neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, tetanus, hydrophobia, epidemic cholera, convulsions, chorea, hysteria, mental depression, delirium tremens, insanity, and uterine hemorrhage...