Word: diarrheas
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...important thing to remember about medicine in the Soviet Union is that it is free. When I was sick there, the doctor made a house call at no charge; another time, when I had mild diarrhea, the medicine cost 6?. It worked...
From the Old Mole: On the banks of the Mississippi below St. Louis, there are signs warning picnickers not to eat their lunch on or near the banks. The spray from the river contains typhoid, colitis, hepatitis,, diarrhea, salmonella, tuberculosis, and polio. It is an open sewer. If you place a fish in a container of river water, it will die in 60 seconds. Dilute the water 100 times with clear water, and the fish will die in 24 hours...
Suppressing Sickness. Typically, the disease is contracted from food or drinking water contaminated by human excrement or vomit. After a short incubation period of often only one day, victims are seized with attacks of diarrhea so devastating that within hours they are seriously dehydrated, losing almost as much as their own body weight in fluids. In extreme cases, the kidneys and other vital organs cease to function. Even so, death results in only an estimated 15% of El Tor cases. With proper treatment, which involves administering antibiotics and large amounts of distilled water and salts, the death rate...
...responsible for the present pandemic, a strain first identified in 1906 at the Tor quarantine station in Egypt, is prolific and can quickly cause death if not treated promptly. It multiplies rapidly in the gut, producing millions of offspring in a matter of hours. The bacteria trigger a devastating diarrhea that can drain off as much as 15% of the body fluids in eight hours, depleting the body of water and essential salts. This depletion can be deadly. Lack of bicarbonate turns the blood more acid. Vomiting further dehydrates and weakens the victim; the dehydration shuts down the kidneys...
...existence-or the dangers-of the disease. Iran and Iraq stopped all reports about their cholera epidemics after 1964, when the Soviet Union refused to accept shipments of citrus fruits and other goods from cholera-stricken Iran. Both countries now refer only to outbreaks of misleadingly labeled "summer diarrhea." Egyptian authorities have been equally ostrichlike. Fearful of disrupting their country's ailing tourist industry, they have refused to restrict travel and euphemistically describe as "summer disease" what one World Health Organization official estimates to be 3,000 current cases of cholera...