Word: cholerae
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...Cholera should exist only as a historical footnote. Modern sanitation can eliminate the primary causes of this highly infectious disease-waste-contaminated water supplies-and advanced medical techniques can effectively treat it. Yet cholera continues to kill. Confined for many years to the world's more primitive countries, mostly in the Far East, it has been moving westward with a new force. Last week it was threatening the already troubled Middle East, even causing concern in the technically advanced Soviet Union, and may well have surfaced in Africa...
Ardery says: "You probably won't get sick in Africa (I never did), but if you do, the disease might be debilitating or fatal, so in addition to the standard inoculations, get cholera shots and buy an anti-malaria drug like chioroquine or Daraprim...
...major biological-warfare center at Fort Detrick, Md., the Army is experimenting with diseases that include undulant fever, coccidioidomycosis (a fungus infection), Rocky Mountain spotted fever and various strains of encephalitis, botulism, cholera, glanders and pneumonic plague. The major biological agents that the Army "keeps on the shelf" ready for use are anthrax, Q-fever, tularemia (rabbit fever) and psittacosis (parrot fever). Stored in sod-covered, concrete "igloos" at the Army's Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas, they are kept in constant cy cles of development, production, storage, elimination and replacement. The quantities now on hand are said...
...about 40,000 travelers died of "misadventure" on the lonely, dusty roads of India. Cholera, smallpox and snakebite were among the popular certified causes of death. The actual cause, in more cases than not: death by strangling at the well-muscled hands of murderous religious fanatics called Thugs, who perversely justified their killing in the name of the Hindu goddess Kali but robbed for the immense benefit of themselves. George Bruce, journalist and Orientalist, examines these remarkable evildoers and with British understatement measures their crime and eventual punishment...
...Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) died of gangrene after smashing his foot with a heavy, canelike conductor's baton while leading an orchestra; Charles Valentin-Alkan (1813-1888) toppled a bookcase over on himself while reaching for a copy of the Talmud; Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) came down with cholera after drinking a glass of tap water; and Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961) suffered fatal brain damage when he became entangled in the leashes of two fighting dogs and fell on a sidewalk...