Word: diarrheas
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...country's most imminent threat is waterborne epidemics. Thousands of flood victims are suffering from severe diarrhea. Health officials warn that widespread malaria, spawned by stagnant pools of floodwater, may be next. A World Health Organization epidemiologist predicts that even if epidemic conditions are kept under control, 4,000 children will probably die from gastrointestinal diseases...
Even then the crisis will not be over. Already, experts estimate that as many as five hundred thousand new cases of diarrhea are occurring each day, most of them caused by polluted drinking water. Dysentery and perhaps cholera may soon follow. Because the flood has destroyed at least a quarter of this year's food crops, widespread hunger and perhaps pockets of starvation are anticipated...
...Kurds are expected to take up Iraq's offer while fear and resentment over the recent attacks are running so high. At a camp near the Turkish village of Ortakoy last week, 7,000 exhausted refugees were fighting malaria, diarrhea and intestinal diseases from their journey. There was scant physical evidence of either chemical or gas bombings, but refugees said those victims had not lived to carry their tales across the border. In a primitive medical clinic, Caglayan Cucen, a Turkish doctor, said he would never forget treating a little Kurdish girl for an injured foot. "She was crying...
...half an hour late taking off from Newark last Wednesday when a woman passenger kept herself locked in a rest room in spite of entreaties to come out. She finally emerged, said she was ill and returned to her seat. She left a lavatory so spattered with blood (from diarrhea, flight attendants assumed) that it was closed off for the six-hour trip...
...advanced cancer. Amy Hance, 25, of Bloomington, Ill., reached that stage early this year. Melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, had spread to her liver, spleen, stomach and lungs. The determined Hance opted for experimental IL-2 therapy, even though side effects -- including fever, massive fluid retention, anemia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and heart and lung problems -- had killed several patients...