Word: cholerae
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Visitors to the area, like U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, are visibly shaken by what they see: emaciated adults, children with distended bellies, filthy refugee camps where overcrowding has triggered epidemics of measles, influenza and cholera. Reports TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs, who has logged 7,000 miles touring the drought area: "There are experts with many years' experience in the Sahel who see no end in sight to the cycle of drought, famine and death. The Sahel's Tuareg nomads have a saying, 'When the camel collapses, the game is over.' For them, now clustered...
...never on weekdays as well as Sundays. Sullen crowds milled in the streets, and people eyed each other with suspicion. A placard outside the Zi' Teresa restaurant - closed by a strike, although there were no customers to speak of anyway - explained the city's unsettled mood. CHOLERA BROUGHT us TO OUR KNEES, it read, NOW WE ARE WAITING FOR THE COUP DE GRACE...
Normally one of the gayest and most cheerful cities in Europe, Naples has been paralyzed by a cholera epidemic that killed 16 people in a month and hospitalized 822 more. As the epidemic itself waned, misfortune has overwhelmed the city. First the lucrative tourist trade dried up. Then the port was all but quarantined. Fishmongers who sold the sewage-contaminated mussels that spread the infection were virtually ostracized; their livelihood was ruined as police frogmen systematically uprooted the mussel beds. Afraid of contagion, Neapolitans, the most gregarious people in Italy, began to avoid one another, literally like the plague...
...thousands of jobless fishermen, restaurant workers, peddlers and dockers. All are ripe targets for the violent rhetoric of left-wing and neofascist agitators. The disease may have been contained, but it will be a long time before Naples recovers from a more damaging illness: il dopocolera, the after-cholera...
Fearing the spread of the disease, health officials in several countries began demanding that travelers returning from Italy show certificates of immunization against cholera. That action apparently is not enough to halt the march of the disease. Scattered cases have already been reported in Sweden, Britain, France and West Germany. The majority of those stricken in Northern European countries have not even been to Italy. Most appeared to have picked up the disease in North Africa...