Posts Tagged with "Cholera"

Factory of Miracles

Thursday, July 28, 2011

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Factory of Miracles

Aljazeera.net 27 July 2011 If you don't like hospitals, then you'll hate Dhaka Hospital during one of the Bangladesh capital's regular cholera epidemics. But its staff save thousands of lives.

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In Bangladesh, A New Way to Fight Cholera

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

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In Bangladesh, A New Way to Fight Cholera

TIME.com 15 February 2011 Cholera kills 120,000 people every year, estimates the World Health Organization. Could mass vaccination be a new weapon against an old disease? The world is watching an ambitious new program to vaccinate 160,000 people in the cholera-prone capital of Bangladesh.

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You’ve Got Cholera

Monday, December 27, 2010

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Haiti’s cholera epidemic took place some 10,000 miles from my home in Thailand, but I watched it unfold with more than just academic interest. I recently woke up feeling too nauseous to even sip water. Then diarrhea struck. A few hours later, weak and dehydrated, I was being wheeled into a Bangkok hospital, my blood [...]

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