Word: tor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preventable (by keeping water and food free of contamination by sewage), cholera has been spreading throughout southeast Asia from Red China since last summer. An epidemic reached the Philippines last September. Elpidio Valencia, then Health Secretary, correctly identified it as "choleriform enteritis caused by a vibrio (bacillus) called El Tor," which he less soundly defined as a "mild" form of cholera. A presidential campaign was in progress, and the regime of President Carlos P. Garcia was anxious to downplay any threat to the nation's health...
Pilgrim Stock. El Tor strains of cholera vibrios take their name from a Sinai Peninsula quarantine station where they were originally found in Mecca-bound Moslem pilgrims. The strains were long thought to be harmless, but recently they proved to be the cause of a deadly epidemic in Indonesia...
...Philippines, El Tor spread a bit more slowly than typical cholera. Mass inoculations might have helped, but government and antigovernment forces, burning with election fever, accused each other of cornering vaccine for their partisans. The government welcomed a U.S. Navy team of veteran cholera fighters from Formosa, but failed to use vigorously the weapon that the Navymen recommended: salt water. Cholera victims are weakened and killed by a catastrophic loss of body fluids through vomiting and diarrhea (as many as 15 quarts in a day); they can nearly always be saved by prompt, aggressive treatment, in which saline solution...
...good, my compatriots, that you should not breathe a word of it to anybody, not even to your own soul for fear of having to judge yourself. The years of silence have been degrading and futile, for today the blinding sun of tor ture lights the whole country. There is not a laugh which sounds right, not a face which does not use makeup to mask anger or fear, not an act which does not betray our disgust and our complicity...
Kudos to Charles Davis from Austin for his stand on arming fallout shelters to keep the neighbors out [Aug. 18]. It is indeed wonderful to see that there are still some Americans around who are able to think tor themselves without aid from the Federal Government. Guns are man's best friend...