Word: diarrheas
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...World Health Organization confirmed that a dysentery epidemic among Rwandan refugees in Goma, Zaire has replaced cholera as the number one killer and could claim up to 45,000 lives. Epidemiologists now say the number of cholera cases has dropped by half, but that dysentery -- a contagious, bloody diarrhea that is much harder to treat -- has more than made up for the decline. U.S. Army convoys delivered 100,000 gallons of fresh water, a triumph over a bottleneck at Goma's tiny airport, but far short of the 1.25 million gallons needed daily to meet the refugees' basic needs...
...Munigi cholera camp in northeastern Zaire, the very ground is infected by the dying. Nurse Isabel Subiros, wearing jeans and pink rubber gloves, steps carefully around the contaminated diarrhea and vomit and bloody needles. She accidentally pricked herself this morning. She tries not to think about it, or anything that is happening around her. "It is best just to work," she says...
...chance to get better acquainted with some of his peers. Among them, Prime Ministers Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, Jean Chretien of Canada and Tomiichi Murayama of Japan were coming for the first time. In a meeting with Clinton before the summit, Murayama (who was hospitalized briefly for fatigue and diarrhea) promised to maintain policies of stimulating consumption, as the U.S. and other trade partners have been urging, to spur Japanese imports. U.S. trade officials, however, remain frustrated. "In two weeks," said one senior American figure, "there are going to be intense internal readings on Japan...
...that health standards in Cuba have "declined dramatically" over the past two to three years. Physicians fear that deteriorating sanitary conditions will bring back dysentery and typhoid, since soap and detergents are in short supply, as is chlorine to treat the water supply. The incidence of hepatitis A and diarrhea is on the rise, and infant tuberculosis is a growing problem in poor sections of Havana...
...should drink juice, and some pediatricians see no reason to introduce it until after the first birthday. Whenever they start, young children need not consume more than a few ounces a day. Because apple juice contains two sugars that tots cannot absorb -- sorbitol and fructose -- large - quantities can cause diarrhea. "Fruit-juice companies imply that apple juice is healthful," says Dr. John Udall, head of pediatric nutrition at Children's Hospital in New Orleans. "But it's probably been oversold...