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...regime that has run Burma for more than 40 years. "Nothing has been given from the government. They do not care to look after the public." Right now, the only person caring for them is a local midwife who dispenses from a plastic bag her meager but precious pharmacy: paracetamol, a few antibiotics, some antacid tablets. None of it will help the infant Kyaw Zin Htay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aid Not Reaching Burmese | 5/9/2008 | See Source »

...stomach ailments and diarrhea, when before the cyclone there had been none to speak of. These are the ominous first signs that disease is stalking the villagers, whose poor diet makes them weak and vulnerable. They have no medicines until we give them what we are carrying: a few paracetamol and some water purification tablets. The villagers smiled and waved in gratitude when we left. It is the only aid they have received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cyclone's Tiniest Victims | 5/9/2008 | See Source »

...will not be hard to come by. Many victims of viral hepatitis and of adverse reactions to anesthetics or other drugs develop hepatic coma. The condition may also be brought on by drug abuse; 1,500 persons were admitted to English hospitals in 1971 for liver poisoning caused by Paracetamol, a painkilling tablet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Liver Machine | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

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