Word: cholerae
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Recently he solemnly declared that "the cause for the deterioration in health is the smallpox vaccination." Last April, though greatly desiring to attend the Kumbh-mela held at Hardwar (TIME, May 1), Tandon stayed away because cholera inoculations were compulsory for all pilgrims. Tandon has complained that Nehru's approach to public health is almost the same as that of the British; e.g,, he advocates distribution of medicine made by Western methods and is in favor of injecting people's bodies with poisonous drugs. So revered by Tandon is the sanctity of animal life that he condemns leather...
...last week from beer drinkers both at home & abroad. Michigan's belligerent Democratic Congressman John Dingell trumpeted that the decision could mean sure death to thousands of troops. Beer is a "wholesome food drink," he declared, but the water in Korea is so full of typhus, dysentery and cholera that it is "deadlier than bullets." Cried Dingell: "Human beings usually have 33 feet of guts, but I bet the man who made that decision doesn't have three feet...
...children. This offsets some of the harm the Communists have done themselves by overthrowing the cult of respect to our ancestors which we Tonkinese have inherited from Confucius. Sometimes Ho recites verse. Sometimes he cracks a joke. I remember once-in Annamite we use the same word for 'cholera' as for 'left'-we had an outbreak of cholera, and he told the minister of health: 'You had better get this under control or people will think we are favoring the left...
...wenching because she is awed by his education and believes in his essential goodness; she closes her eyes to the fact that little Rosa Tench is Portius' child, and she expands with pride when Portius makes a fine speech. Portius is a stout character himself. He survives the cholera, though his only medicine is red pepper and asafetida pills, because he is too "preserved in alcohol to die." When he becomes a judge, agnostic and prankster that he is, he secretly replaces the court Bible with Arabian Nights, by which everyone swears as devoutly as before...
...Instead, he would like it to set a good example. (In Greece it did an outstanding job of malaria control, and the example inspired scores of Greeks to take training in malariology.) Every day WHO headquarters in Geneva sends out word of outbreaks of the five "treaty diseases" (plague, cholera, typhus, smallpox and yellow fever) against which quarantine officials must be alert. This work is more than ever important now that air travelers can spread a plague halfway around the world in half...