Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pessimistic 10th International AIDS Conference wrapped up in Yokohama, Japan, with the familiar warning that prevention is the only weapon to fight the spread of the worldwide epidemic. To that end, public health officials predict 20 billion condoms will be needed in the next decade. Currently in the U.S. 562 million condoms are sold annually. Some 17 million people are believed to be infected with the virus that causes AIDS...
Rwandan refugees beat to death two men who demanded more food in the Kibumba camp, the largest of three border camps around Goma, Zaire. Relief workers say brawls over food and supplies are growing more common, and they fear the unrest could spread out of control unless supplies of flour, corn and other grains increase. Visible about 3,000 ft. above them, Rwanda's Nyiragongo volcano erupted, spewing ash and dust but no lava on the preoccupied refugees. U.N. officials, meanwhile, launched a new campaign to draw them back home but reported no results...
...Clinton administration has pledged $150 million in aid for Rwanda as well as up to 4,000 US military personnel to coordinate airdrops. UN. Secretary General Boutros-Ghali estimates that the effort will run approximately $434 million. Nonetheless the efforts at best would reduce the spread of disease and privation in the camps. What of resettling the Rwandans in their own country? This is the only way to diffuse the crisis. Resettlement will require a major military commitment on the part of the United States. Rwanda is still an armed camp with sporadic clashes between Hutus and Tutsis still occurring...
...Goma, Zaire refugee camps, French doctors said a deadly fever thought to be typhus has killed 19 refugees and may be spreading. Unsanitary conditions in the camps may be the problem, since the high-fever disease is often spread by lice...
Cholera and a newer threat, dysentery, have killed at least 50,000 Rwandan refugees in the last two weeks, and humanitarian officials fear that their plan to have refugees return from border camps in Zaire could spread disease throughout Rwanda. The rescue effort itself is drawing controversy: physicians are criticizing the U.N. World Food Program for transporting choleric refugees back to Rwanda's capital, Kigali. In one wave, 16 ill people apparently infected 700 others...