Word: typhoidal
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...disinfectant, chlorine is one of the public-health success stories of the 20th century. After it was first used to purify water supplies in the early 1900s, typhoid fever, cholera and dysentery virtually disappeared from the U.S. But the chemical has been under attack in recent years by environmentalists for contributing to the destruction of the earth's ozone layer. Greenpeace's "Chlorine Kills!" campaign is focused primarily on paper bleaching and other industrial uses, but the organization also urged pool operators to look for an alternative to chlorine...
...Mine is the story of the fall from grace of a high-born cross-breed," the Moor notes, although the past "grace" he mentions consists largely of Da Gama insanities, grudges and general bad behavior. "What an epidemic of getting-even runs through my tale, what a malaria cholera typhoid of eye-for-tooth and tit-for-tat! No wonder I have ended...
Springman says he uses humor to counter sneers he receives from Harvard students. "A lot of [Harvard students] act like I have typhoid, they look the other way," he says. "I'll tease them and say 'Smile' or tell them 'It's only a hundred-dollar donation.' That gets a laugh...
...Cholera outbreaks were rare in that part of the world before the breakup of the Soviet Union, but collapsing health services and worsening sanitary conditions have fostered the disease. Shortages of vaccines, meanwhile, have led to an upsurge in diphtheria in Russia, and health experts have encountered cases of typhoid, hepatitis, anthrax and salmonella in neighboring Ukraine...
...embargo has tightened, Cuba has had to import more drugs from Europe, Japan and Canada, tripling costs of the medications needed to treat and prevent, for example, typhoid and whooping cough. A 1992 U.S. law forbids foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies to sell to Cuba; Dutch and Swedish firms report that they too are being pressured by Washington to stop providing such items as catheters and sutures. A Canadian firm was even barred from selling Cuba a U.S.-made steel pin to repair a broken operating table. Medical journals are included under the embargo...