Word: diarrheas
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Token Cremation. The polluted drinking water, the lack of sanitation and the officials' inability to inoculate the millions of refugees have contributed to the spread of cholera, particularly in West Bengal. A bacterial disease common to India and Pakistan, cholera causes severe vomiting and diarrhea, which bring dehydration and death. Those afflicted can usually be saved by replenishing the bodily fluids through intravenous injections or drinking large doses of a solution of salts, baking soda and glucose. But the flood of refugees is just too great to be handled by beleaguered medical teams...
...Health Association said that it knew of cases of hepatitis and salmonella diarrhea, and suspected the possibility of scarlet fever...
...throwing up all night the night before," the Crimson's Bill Salatich said. "I was at home, and I guess I ate too much of the wrong thing. I kept taking diarrhea pills all afternoon to keep everything together. All I had between rounds was a Coke." Salatich won the medallist honors with a 36-hole total...
Cholera rages in many parts of Asia where poverty impedes sanitation and millions drink polluted water. There is still no really effective vaccine for the disease, which causes a debilitating diarrhea and deprives the body of essential fluids. A century ago, doctors tried unsuccessfully to treat cholera by fumigating victims in a large wooden box. But in East Pakistan, where cholera is a major killer, a team of U.S. Public Health Service doctors has developed a simple cure that may save thousands of lives because it is far cheaper than preventive measures...
...another last August and September for 35 days. The latter was as inhuman an event as the world has ever seen. The number of prisoners who fell ill or went insane prove the cruelty of our jailers. They denied medical assistance to prisoners suffering from heart attacks, stomach upsets, diarrhea, and even total paralysis unless they changed their attitude. It was horrible to see 800 men in a state of total malnutrition thrown to the mercy of cruel, unpredictable jailers...