Word: cholerae
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...backwash of postwar epidemics spread across China, carried by 60,000,000 louse-ridden refugees. Two months ahead of the virulent summer season, a cholera epidemic broke in Canton. Only cool weather prevented a full-scale epidemic in Hankow. Bubonic plague broke out in Foochow, and in north China was apparently moving on Peiping and Tientsin. Two planes carrying UNRRA medical supplies flew to Tientsin to meet the threat...
...Canton, a city of nearly 1,000,000, there was only one foreign doctor to fight the epidemic: Frank H. Herrington, who resigned from the U.S. Navy last fall to join UNRRA. He diagnosed 162 cases of cholera, watched the fatality rate climb to 50%. Canton lacked cholera vaccine, the distilled water and apparatus to give intravenous saline solutions as part of the prescribed treatment for cholera patients...
Faced with this crisis, Herrington flew to Shanghai, wangled 200,000 doses of cholera vaccine from UNRRA supplies and local labs. Additional vaccine for 1,000,000 persons was promised, planes chartered to speed chlorine for Canton's polluted water system. Unless the anti-epidemic supplies arrived promptly, Herrington estimated that more than 1,000 Cantonese would die of cholera in the next few weeks. It was not his first bout with cholera. Last summer, while surgeon for the U.S. Embassy in Chungking, he had helped to stop a cholera epidemic in China's temporary capital...
...your house a byword . . . must [you] bring your whore's clothes here? . . . Take back your filth!" Gopal Singh slapped her face. Screamed Pyari: "Why don't you shoot me? . . ." Half an hour later, Pyari was dead. Said Gopal's father: "We must say she died of cholera." Said Gopal: "She must be burned at once. ... It must be too late for a post-mortem." That evening, Pyari's body was burned on a pyre beside the Ganges...
When Author Seton kills off Father & Mother Cameron in a few swift pages of cholera and hemorrhages, kindly Mexicans adopt Fey. Later, handsome, rascally Terry Dillon finds Fey a helpful partner in selling Dr. Dillon's Extra Special Elixir, a snake oil whose chief ingredient is river water. Said the Indians: "The Great Spirit meant you for a better destiny...