Word: cholerae
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...soil in which the F.L.N. grew was provided by French rule in Algeria. The great French civilizing mission brought many good things: an end to cholera, typhus and malaria, the elimination of tribal wars and devastating famines, the beginnings of industrialization. But France also took away the best lands the tribes had owned, and, as the Moslem population rocketed upward, the remaining flocks and inefficient farms could not keep pace...
...Mahal, which she will view both by daylight and moonlight-well, the Taj Mahal, postponement or no, always lives up to its advance billing. For her part, the First Lady was packing trunkloads of clothes by Cassini, Chez Ninon and Tassell. She had got shots for cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus, typhoid and tetanus-without getting sick. She had conscientiously boned up on the customs of India and Pakistan. Only one question remained: Would her health...
...modern underground garages, scores of automobiles disappeared beneath the oily waves. Driven from their holes by the floods, packs of rats fed on the carcasses of dead animals. Fearing the pollution of the water supply, authorities flew water in by helicopter to combat the threat of typhoid and cholera...
...Philippines, El Tor spread a bit more slowly than typical cholera. Mass inoculations might have helped, but government and antigovernment forces, burning with election fever, accused each other of cornering vaccine for their partisans. The government welcomed a U.S. Navy team of veteran cholera fighters from Formosa, but failed to use vigorously the weapon that the Navymen recommended: salt water. Cholera victims are weakened and killed by a catastrophic loss of body fluids through vomiting and diarrhea (as many as 15 quarts in a day); they can nearly always be saved by prompt, aggressive treatment, in which saline solution...
When new President Diosdado Macapagal took over Dec. 30, he intensified the anticholera campaign. New Health Secretary Duque put an end to the doubletalk about "choleriform" disease, attacked El Tor as vigorously as if it had been old-fashioned cholera. He sent saline solution to 1,300 rural health teams, put 27 ten-man vaccinating teams in the field. But it was too late to stop...