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SEVERAL YEARS AGO scores of passengers came down with severe diarrhea after eating a meal aboard a Japan Air Lines jet. It turned out that a food handler at a stopover in Alaska had caused the outbreak by coming to work, in violation of airline rules, with an infected cut on his thumb...
However, not all the news is bad. "Sometimes high tech science brought to bear on common problems does produce a low-cost simple effective treatment," Cash said, citing a treatment for diarrhea--a major child-killer--which uses water, sugar and isotonic salt. This treatment has proved particularly effective because all the ingredients are inexpensive and mothers can administer the medicine to their children...
...pampered pigs travel first-class in their own custom trailer, equipped with fans over each pen and a system that changes the air inside every two minutes. Their 100-gal. on-board water supply is laced with sulfa powder and penicillin to ward off scours, the dread hog diarrhea. Each year the company holds a contest among employees to name the racers. Samples from this year's roster: Hamtastic, Leaping Loin, Chop Sooee, Boared Stiff, Charlie Choplin...
...niacin could produce a marked reduction in incidence of heart attack, and an increase in survival up to 15 years after the patient had stopped taking the drug. However, use of niacin in previous studies had always been hampered by severe side effects, including headaches, flushing, itchiness, rashes, and diarrhea...
...Araguari, Brazil, suspicious customers stopped visiting Evaldo Marques' hairdressing salon when he began to lose weight and complain of suffering from constant diarrhea. Others even shunned the private pool where he swam. When he left town to be tested for AIDS, Araguari police advised him not to come back. He is now severely ill with the disease and living with relatives in Belo Horizonte...