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...fell to 3% from 30%, and to less than 1% when IV fluids were administered to the most severely ill. Still, skepticism about the effectiveness of oral rehydration continued. Several journals refused to publish Mahalanabis' paper about the outbreak. But Dhiman Barua, then head of WHO's bacterial diseases unit in Geneva, Switzerland and a survivor of the massive 1932 cholera epidemic in Bangladesh's southern port city of Chittagong, had visited Mahalanabis' camp. He was converted and pushed oral rehydration through all the U.N. health agencies. who rolled out its diarrheal-diseases control program in 1978. "The simplicity...
...dose in Brazil. "For the poorest developing countries that's still unaffordable, but with greater use and greater manufacturing, that price will go down," says Roger I. Glass, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center and former chief of the viral gastroenteritis unit at the cdc in Atlanta, Georgia. One dollar is about the price that Thai doctor Wandee would like to pay for the rotavirus vaccine. Rotavirus is the leading cause of diarrhea in Thai children today. In the 40 years since Wandee began championing oral rehydration at the Ramathibodi Hospital in Bangkok, deaths...
...alone. It is possible pretty much any night of the week to settle down on your couch for an evening of scaring the hell out of yourself over your kids. Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Close to Home, Criminal Minds, Without a Trace: those are just a few of the hit crime shows that traffic in kids in jeopardy. And that's not counting the Amber Alert marathons on cable news. Kids molested, kids abducted, kids stalked, kids beaten. Stay tuned at 11, and you can probably catch a local news report on perverts in your hometown, especially...
...Jill Carroll's kidnappers - all of them. I was mighty proud of my guys that day. I figured we'd all get the Christian Science Monitor for free after this, but none have showed up yet. [CLARIFICATION FROM THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: "Regarding the writer's comments about his unit's "Best Intel Work", the Monitor is very grateful for all of the efforts the US government made to secure Jill Carroll's freedom after she was held against her will for 82 days. Monitor Editor Richard Bergenheim expressed his gratitude in a press conference he conducted...
...Saddest Moment - Having an infantry battalion commander hand me the dog tags of one of my Marines who had just been killed while on a mission with his unit. Hit by a 60mm mortar. He was a great Marine. I felt crushed for a long time afterward. His picture now hangs at the entrance to our section area. We'll carry it home with us when we leave in February...