Word: cholerae
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...Victoria, the exhausted British doctor could no longer keep a stiff upper lip. "Damn them!" he exploded. "They had this thing raging in there, and they tried to keep it a secret. It's inhuman." By "they" he meant Communist authorities of Red China, who had a cholera epidemic for months in Kwangtung province, around Canton, and had tried to keep news of it from slipping through the cracks in the Bamboo Curtain. They could not keep the tiny microbe of cholera, Vibrio comma, from slipping through with refugees escaping to Hong Kong or to the nearby Portuguese islet...
Last week Hong Kong health officials had confirmed 60 cases, with six deaths, in the colony's islands and mainland territory. Within ten days, the doctors vaccinated 1,750,000 (out of a population of 3,000,000). Cholera vaccine was arriving daily by jet from the U.S., Britain, India (the birthplace and permanent home of cholera), Borneo and Australia. Among the U.S. shipments was a Government gift of 450,000 shots...
...Cholera is spread by any means that gets Vibrio comma from the feces of one victim to the digestive tract of the next-chiefly contaminated water and food. To keep the disease out of other parts of Asia, shipment of fresh fruits and vegetables into or out of Hong Kong was banned. In the Philippines and Formosa, less than two-hour flights away, raw food from Hong Kong was seized and burned. The Philippines, which have a heavy, regular and effective program of cholera vaccination, began giving booster shots but reported no cases. Formosa hurriedly got out its needles...
starvation, lice, cholera and typhus...
...crossfire line. The treaty signing over, Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan took his guest to the summer lodge at Murree, overlooking Rudyard Kipling's storied mountain city of Rawalpindi. For two days, as 70-year-old Nehru gradually perked up from the aftereffects of a recent cholera shot and a tooth extraction, the two British-educated leaders walked in the pine-fringed garden and delicately explored their differences. It was, said an aide, a "conversation by suggestion, by implication, by pregnant pause, by meaningful silence." Before each session. President Ayub presented his guest with a new rose...