Word: surat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PLAGUE. In 1994 a long monsoon in northern India followed by 90 consecutive days of 100[degrees]F heat drove rats into the cities. In Surat, they caused an outbreak of pneumonic plague. The ensuing panic killed 63 people and ultimately cost India $2 billion...
After two weeks, the deadly pneumonic plague has spread from the port city of Surat to New Delhi and five other states, including West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. But officials claimed they had the epidemic under control. At week's end the death toll topped...
...although modernization offers the means to control epidemics, disease springs from modernization gone awry. In Surat, for example, rapid industrialization and growth has created communities outside the control of the city administration...
...deadlier of the two. The bacteria which carry pneumonic plague can be transmitted through water droplets from the lungs of humans--that is, whenever people sneeze. This can bring the disease to epidemic proportions as the bacteria travel from person to person through the air, as happened in Surat...
...Surat is one example of many people brought together hurriedly. Cholera arrived in South American in 1991 in the bilge water of a freighter. A more recent example of cholera attack appears in the migration of 20,000 Rwandans to Zaire two months ago. The result of a massive disruption in demography was an epidemic of cholera...