Word: choleriform
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...Philippines so vulnerable. A disease that is completely preventable (by keeping water and food free of contamination by sewage), cholera has been spreading throughout southeast Asia from Red China since last summer. An epidemic reached the Philippines last September. Elpidio Valencia, then Health Secretary, correctly identified it as "choleriform enteritis caused by a vibrio (bacillus) called El Tor," which he less soundly defined as a "mild" form of cholera. A presidential campaign was in progress, and the regime of President Carlos P. Garcia was anxious to downplay any threat to the nation's health...
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...
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