Word: cholerae
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Treatment involves intensive replacement of lost fluids and infusions of salts to restore the body's water and chemical balance. It is almost always effective. But without prompt medical attention, 50% of cholera's victims...
...diseases are more feared than cholera, which in past centuries has decimated whole populations. Cholera is endemic to many Asian nations, where sanitation is poor and water supplies are contaminated. But the disease also maintains a tenuous toehold in the West. Last week it was frightening Italy, where the death toll had risen to at least 21, and threatening other European countries as well...
Their concern is well founded, because the effects of cholera can be catastrophic. The disease is caused by comma-shaped bacteria that thrive in contaminated water supplies. The bugs do even better in the human intestine...
...current outbreak began late last month in Naples, where it afflicted 94 victims and killed at least ten. Cases of cholera cropped up in the Adriatic port of Bari. The disease erupted in Rome, and finally leaped the Tyrrhenian Sea to Sardinia. By week's end, cases had been reported in Florence and as far north as Bologna and Milan...
Other Areas. Military personnel problems are also censored. No information is to be disseminated, without permission, about "dissatisfaction among the military personnel, [which is] provoked by material conditions and feeding of the men." Other areas of censorship: medicine (no mention of "illness in the population from cholera and plague"), wages (no discussion of how much foreigners working in the U.S.S.R. earn), and accidents. The directive orders censorship of any mention of accidents involving aircraft, ships or autos...