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...have been reported. At about the same time, El Tor also cropped up in Egypt. After that, the disease spread rapidly, partly as an unhappy dividend from the Middle East conflict. Soviet sailors returning from Egyptian ports may have carried El Tor to the Soviet Black Sea ports of Odessa and Kerch, where 101 cases have been reported. More recently, the disease has cropped up in Jordan, Iraq and Syria. Israel has reported 33 cases, Lebanon 30 and Libya 28. A Togolese businessman died of cholera in Ghana last week, and medical authorities in Kenya have isolated a suspected cholera...
...Shore of the Caspian Sea. From there, it jumped to Astrakhan, a Soviet city of 500,000. Now it has burst out in two more areas: Alexandria and Port Said and-after a visit by the Soviet fleet to the two Egyptian cities-the Soviet Black Sea port of Odessa...
...week in the Lebanese town of Chtaura and agreed on regulations that make cholera vaccinations compulsory for travelers between the three countries. Israeli health officials began demanding that all persons crossing from Jordan into Israel be immunized prior to entry. The Soviets went even farther. Travel to Astrakhan and Odessa was restricted, cutting the cities off from the rest of the country, and all but essential trips to Black Sea vacation areas were curtailed. Soviet citizens were warned to take precautions with their food and water supplies...
...Brezhnev spoke of lost productivity because of rampant alcoholism. As one example of mismanagement, he reportedly told of a shipment of four expensive construction cranes from East Germany. All four were shipped clear across the country to Vladivostok, but two of them actually were supposed to go to Odessa. They finally arrived in damaged condition at their correct destination...
...Odessa, Texas...