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...epidemic is the latest flare-up of a hardy strain of cholera known as El Tor (named for the Egyptian quarantine station where it was first identified). The strain originated more than 30 years ago in the highlands of Indonesia's Celebes Islands. In recent years the disease has spread north to the Korean peninsula and west along the Southeast Asian mainland. After passing through India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, it became a raging epidemic in Iran and Iraq by 1965. There the disease seemed to mark time-at least until a month or so ago, when it resumed...
Health officials are still uncertain how the epidemic got its start. The first confirmed outbreak occurred a month ago in the Soviet port of Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea, where 352 cases have been reported. At about the same time, El Tor also cropped up in Egypt. After that, the disease spread rapidly, partly as an unhappy dividend from the Middle East conflict. Soviet sailors returning from Egyptian ports may have carried El Tor to the Soviet Black Sea ports of Odessa and Kerch, where 101 cases have been reported. More recently, the disease has cropped up in Jordan, Iraq...
...seized with attacks of diarrhea so devastating that within hours they are seriously dehydrated, losing almost as much as their own body weight in fluids. In extreme cases, the kidneys and other vital organs cease to function. Even so, death results in only an estimated 15% of El Tor cases. With proper treatment, which involves administering antibiotics and large amounts of distilled water and salts, the death rate can be cut to as low as 1%. Cholera immunizations are at best about 70% effective against the disease...
Powerful Parasite. The classic disease is caused by Vibrio cholera bacteria, comma-shaped microbes that multiply in the intestine and thrive in contaminated water supplies. The bug responsible for the present pandemic, a strain first identified in 1906 at the Tor quarantine station in Egypt, is prolific and can quickly cause death if not treated promptly. It multiplies rapidly in the gut, producing millions of offspring in a matter of hours. The bacteria trigger a devastating diarrhea that can drain off as much as 15% of the body fluids in eight hours, depleting the body of water and essential salts...
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