Word: tetanus
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Health workers administered about 80,000 doses of tetanus and typhoid vaccines. By the end of last week soldiers had set fire to piles of bodies and shot stray dogs and pigs to prevent the spread of disease. They arrested looters and bandits, but their actions often came too late. By the time the military arrived at the scene on Nov. 17, said one official, "just about all of the houses unaffected by the avalanche had been sacked...
...Ballad of Jack and Rose had shoulders, the viewer would be shaking them sternly. Of course it will all go wrong! Jack's social skills are so rusty they might give a visitor tetanus, and Rose couldn't have a ruder introduction to her own sexuality than from the complementarily weird sons. But getting scorpions to battle in a bottle is what drama does, and the movie carries an eerie fascination as it spins out the inevitable eruptions...
...most immediate enemy is infection. Thousands of people were essentially attacked by their own flimsy homes, sliced up and gashed by falling planks of wood, shards of glass and jagged pieces of corrugated tin. So many wounds went untreated or were badly treated in local clinics that gangrene and tetanus have set in; amputation is the most common operation in field hospitals...
...Uganda's loan payments by up to $90 million a year. The resulting windfall was used to hire hundreds of teachers and build new schools and health facilities. Enrollment in the nation's primary schools jumped from 5.3 million in 1997 to 7.6 million last year. Immunization rates for tetanus, whooping cough and diphtheria jumped from 49% in 1998 to 83% this year, and the HIV infection rate was halved over the same period. "We've turned around a lot of things here," says Francis Omaswa, director general of Uganda's Health Services...
...overflow. As much of the market is given over to selling pets and wild animals, you could end up wading shin-deep through feculent, brackish ooze. Not a good call if you've been scratching your infernal mosquito bites raw?unless, of course, you intend to go shopping for tetanus, septicemia or worse...