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This year's hazard was first discovered by a doctor in Charleville-Mezieres, in France's Ardennes region. Dr. Jean-Francois Elchardus became alarmed at the sudden and seemingly inexplicable deaths of eight of 15 infants he had treated last spring for diarrhea and large swellings on the buttocks, to which powder had been applied. When he sent several baby products to a laboratory for analysis, tests showed that one of them, a powder called Bebe (baby), was rich in hexachlorophene. The chemical made up 6% of Bebe. (U.S.-manufactured cleansers contain no more than 3% hexachlorophene...
...ordeal can be excruciating. Early in the process, which can take a week or ten days, the addict's eyes water and his nose runs while sweat pours from his body. By the third day, he is likely to be wracked by severe intestinal cramps, diarrhea, vomiting and nerve spasms. Goose bumps cover his body; they make his skin resemble that of a plucked fowl and give the process its name in the U.S. Cold turkey is rarely fatal-the Japanese claim 100% survival for those treated in hospitals-but the urge to commit suicide can be strong...
South of the border, it is turista or "the Aztec two-step." In Asia, visitors from the West call it "Delhi belly." By any name, traveler's diarrhea, a debilitating digestive upset caused by a change in the system's bacterial population, is a synonym for misery that can spoil a trip and jeopardize the victim's health. The standard prophylactic for many years has been Entero-Vioform, a drug so frequently used that it is the traveler's best friend. That fond relationship has come under challenge by the American Medical Association. The A.M.A. Journal...
...organization bases its warning on two factors. One is a lack of proof that Entero-Vioform actually prevents traveler's diarrhea. The other is a growing suspicion that the drug (iodochlorhydroxquin) is linked with a condition called subacute myelo-optic neuropathy (SMON), a nerve condition that can cause crippling and blindness. Entero-Vioform has been implicated in some of the 10,000 cases of SMON in Japan, where the drug used to be sold over the counter, while instances of the ailment have been reported in Sweden, Australia and the U.S. among patients who have taken it to prevent...
...away the dead. They just lay around on the ground or in the water." High-pressure syringes have speeded vaccination and reduced the cholera threat, but camp health officials have already counted about 5,000 dead, and an estimated 35,000 have been stricken by the convulsive vomiting and diarrhea that accompany the disease. Now officials fear that pneumonia, diphtheria and tuberculosis will also begin to exact a toll among the weakened ref ugees. Says one doctor: "The people are not even crying any more...